More than 4200 planes.... Worth more than $38 Billion USD .... Has the actual planes from the Movie Top Gun .... has 94 nuclear weapon Bombers.The Davis-Monthan Air Force Base outside Tuscon, arizona, has disused aircrafts - thousands of them. There is row upon row of F-14 Tomcats, nuke--deploying B-52's, Huey choppers... all waiting to either be recycl
ed, or for the next world war. And thanks to arizona's dry air, most can be restored to operational status if needed. Google Earth allows you the ability to backtrack through a timeline to compare dated maps with the current map. If you’ve got the newest Google Earth installed, it’s worth checking out the area. It really does look like a massive pattern on the ground from the sky due to the sheer amount of planes on the ground.
The Davis-Monthan Air Force Base is also home to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group, and it has garnered the nickname “The Boneyard” for the out of service aircraft that collects on its base.
these planes will not fight WW3....none will
ReplyDeleteI had the same thought pop into my mind at that commnent.
ReplyDeleteI used to live in Tucson, drove past these planes often a fabulous photo op I never took...
ReplyDeleteOh wow Heather.. was it eerie driving past such a vast expanse of collected history? What an amazing sight. The google earth images are amazing.
ReplyDeleteI actually never realized there were so many!
ReplyDeleteThey recycle them, I might be wrong but I watched a documentary where they stripped down a whole plane and 98% was recycled.
ReplyDeleteSeems such a waste. Why cant they fit them with the new computer technology and save some money...
ReplyDeleteYes, I have been there ... wonderfully mysterious, almost ghostly ...
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