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A fascinating view into the US Air Force boneyards
You can zoom in this 48-megapixel image of the USAF boneyard in Tucson, Arizona—stitched from Bing Maps satellite images—and try to identify all those airplanes. Or you can watch this USAF documentary on how the US stockpiles thousands of planes in deserts around the country to keep the active fleet flying.* (sploid.gizmodo.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Anybody notice that as you get closer, a whole bunch of planes disappear? I wonder which is the newer picture?
Would be incredible if there was a mashup with labels for each type of plane!
Absolutely fantastic interesting movie,keep making and showing them ,and could I just say to the Poster CHALET at least you can see where your tax payers money is going where I come from its used
to bail out Bankers.................
to bail out Bankers.................
Could anyone of you put a number not of the aircraft at this base but the amount of tax money dollars spent (some say wasted to a certain degree) over the years in all thee and many other planes not at the site. I be that the nuber of Zeroes would not fill into this box. And the Air Force types and the Navy Types nev3er stop asking for more and more gazzillions of dollars, their apetite for nedw toys never stops, in fact it grows exponentially. No wonder that our National Debt is about 17 TRILLION, equal to the nation's GNP for 2014 and counting.
All that "wasted" money???! That is WHY we won the COLD WAR, Barack
Dont forget. What you are looking at are shells. The electronics, usable engines and parts are all harvested and recycled and sold off to nations that still use these aircraft.
One other thing of note. The aircraft parts are worth more than an assembled aircraft.
One other thing of note. The aircraft parts are worth more than an assembled aircraft.
I was just there the other day. Many of the aircraft can be returned to service within a few weeks if they are not completely obsolete. The ones that are completely phased out are parted out or sold to other countries.