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Where America's Airplanes Go To Die
Davis–Monthan Air Force Base is located in Tucson, Arizona. It occupies an area of over 10 square kilometers, equal to roughly 1,870 football fields. The base is the location of the Air Force Materiel Command's 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group, or AMARG in short. It is also known as the "boneyard."
With the area's low humidity in the 10%-20% range, meager rainfall of 11" annually, hard alkaline soil, and high altitude of 2,550 feet, it has the "just right" conditions to avoid corrosion and not to need paving when moving massive objects. It has emerged as the perfect venue for one thing: the largest aircraft boneyard in the world, with a typical inventory of more than 4,400 aircraft.
Allowing the aircraft to be naturally preserved for cannibalization or possible reuse, Davis-Monthan is the logical choice for a major storage facility. The geology of the desert allows aircraft to be moved around without having to pave the storage areas.
AMARG's role in the storage of military aircraft began after World War II, and continues today.
Interactive map of AMARG as seen in the most recent Google maps satellite overflight:
Aerial Map of Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, AMARG and the Pima Air & Space Museum
Follows the brief story of the world's largest military airplane boneyard.
AMARG was established in 1946 as the 4105th Army Air Force Unit to house B-29 and C-47 aircraft. By May of 1946, more than 600 B-29 Superfortresses and 200 C-47 Skytrains had been moved to Davis-Monthan. Some were preserved and returned to action in the Korean War, others were scrapped.
In 1948, after the Air Force's creation as a separate service, the unit was renamed the 3040th Aircraft Storage Depot.
In February of 1956, the first Convair B-36 Peacemaker aircraft arrived at Davis-Monthan AFB for scrapping. All of the fleet of 384 Peacemakers would ultimately be dismantled except for four remaining B-36 survivors saved for air museums.
In 1965, the depot was renamed the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposition Center (MASDC), and tasked with processing aircraft for all the US armed forces (not just the Air Force). The U.S. Navy had operated its own boneyard at Naval Air Station Litchfield Park at Goodyear, Arizona for Navy, Marine and Coast Guard aircraft. In February 1965, some 500 aircraft were moved from Litchfield Park to Davis-Monthan AFB. NAS Litchfield Park was finally closed in 1968.
The last Air Force B-47 jet bomber was retired at the end of 1969, and the entire fleet was dismantled at Davis-Monthan except for about 30 Stratojets which were saved for display in air museums.
In the 1980s, the center began processing ICBMs for dismantling or reuse in satellite launches, and was renamed the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) to reflect the expanded focus on all aerospace assets.
In the 1990s, in accordance with the START I treaty, the center was tasked with eliminating 365 B-52 bombers. The progress of this task was to be verified by Russia via satellite and first-person inspection at the facility. Initially, the B-52s were chopped into pieces with a 13,000-pound guillotine winched by a steel cable, supported by a crane. Later on, the tool of choice became K-12 rescue saws. This more precise technique afforded AMARG with salvageable spare parts.
In May 2007, command of AMARG was transferred to the 309th Maintenance Wing, and the center was renamed the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group.
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Today, Davis-Monthan is the location of the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG), the sole aircraft boneyard and parts reclamation facility for all excess military and government aircraft. Aircraft from the Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, NASA and other government agencies are processed at AMARG, which employs 550 people, almost all civilians.
It is the largest airplane boneyard in the world.
Another role of AMARG is to support the program that converts old fighter jets, such as the F-4 Phantom II and F-16, into aerial target drones. It also serves as an auxiliary facility of the National Museum of the United States Air Force, and stores tooling for out-of-production military aircraft.
AMARG's typical inventory comprises more than 4,400 aircraft, which makes it the largest aircraft storage and preservation facility in the world.
AMARG is a controlled-access site, and is off-limits to anyone not employed there without the proper clearance. The only access for non-cleared individuals is via a bus tour which is conducted by the nearby Pima Air & Space Museum.
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Below is an extensive photo library of the residents of this final resting place for thousands of America's warplanes.
Aerial view of aircraft in storage at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base AMARG boneyard
Aerial view of Davis-Monthan Air Force Base and AMARG airplane boneyard in Tucson, Arizona with rows of C-141 Starlifters, B-1B Lancers and F-111 Aardvarks in storage
Aerial view of aircraft in storage at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base AMARG boneyard
Aerial view of aircraft in storage at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base AMARG boneyard
Aerial view of aircraft in storage at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base AMARG boneyard
Aerial view of aircraft in storage at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base AMARG boneyard
Aerial view of aircraft in storage at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base AMARG boneyard
C-141 and B-52 aircraft at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base AMARG boneyard
Aerial view of C-130 aircraft at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base AMARG boneyard
Another aerial view of C-130 aircraft at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base AMARG boneyard
Aerial view of aircraft in storage at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base AMARG circa 2011
Aerial view of work areas at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base AMARG
C-5A Galaxy transports in storage at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base AMARG
C-5A Galaxy reclamation at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base AMARG
A-10 Thunderbolts parked at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base AMARG
B-1B Lancer bomber in storage at the Air Force Materiel Command's
Boeing C-135 S/N 91518 parked on Celebrity Row at AMARG
United Air Lines Boeing 727-100, S/N N7004U, built in 1963, on display at Davis-Monthan AMARG's "Celebrity Row"
U.S. Air Force C-22A Transport, S/N 84-0193 ... variant of the Boeing 727 ... parked on Celebrity Row at AMARG
F-14 on display on Celebrity Row at Davis-Monthan AFB's AMARG facility
F-4 Phantom II fighters in desert storage at Tucson, Arizona, AMARG
Helicopters in desert storage at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona
F-111 Aardvarks in storage at AMARG
KC-135 aircraft at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base AMARG in October, 2012
Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II on display on Celebrity Row at AMARG at Davis-Monthan AFB
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That largely covers US warplanes, but what about commercial jets? As the Bossroyal blog shows, many if not most disused, aging or obsolete airliners, end up in the Californian desert, 150 kilometres outside Los Angeles, at the Mojave Air and Space Port.
In addition to being the “world’s premier civilian aerospace test center”, the Mojave Port is also one of America’s most well-known ‘aircraft boneyards’, and just like in Arizona, the dry Nevada conditions are ideal for minimising corrosion on jets looking for new owner-operators, or just looking for a quiet place in which to rust in peace.
Hundreds, if not thousands, of junked or stored airliners form a surreal view amid the harsh landscape in Mojave, and all the major commercial airliner manufacturers – Boeing, Airbus, McDonnell Douglas and Lockheed Martin – are well represented.
For plane buffs, Mojave and facilities like it dotted across the US provide both a history of commercial aviation as well as a damning judgement on modern day consumerism. In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorists attacks, for example, the demand for air travel hit massive turbulence, and many major airlines were forced to mothball some of their fleet due to lack of demand. Many of them ended up at Mojave, and many remain there today, waiting to spread their wings once more.
In addition to the boneyards shown above, there are many other active and inactive places where thousands of airplanes and fighter jets have been stored across the continental US. The annotated map below is a handy reference to tracking down most of them.
Source: Airplaneboneyards, Bossroyal
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And I can't find a part for my Volkswagon Eurovan-wish I could find THAT boneyard..................
Whoa.
For a min there I thought I was looking at ISIS war booty from overrun bases...
Pish in piddle. I'm sure China has more planes than that sitting on their new aircraft carrier, cleverly concealed on a lake with no outlet to the sea, in the province of photoshopistan.
By any chance has anybody located that missing MH370 missing Malaysian 767 airplane there?
If I had Mark Zuckerberg's wealth, I wouldn't be buying up 750 acres of Oahu real estate with a mansion, expensive sports cars or even gold.
I would live modestly, but own my own black B-52H. Maybe decorate the cockpit with some lime green fun-fur and speak with an odd, non-descript accent.
And I would always wear a tie.
If Travolta had half a hair, he'd get himself a late model B-52.
Me.. I'd settle for one of them Warthogs if the GAU-8 worked.
Absolutely - "the motorcycle of the sky" - I'd take an A-10 in a heartbeat *especially* if the canon worked ... and I'd fly it overseas to an unnamed location on a particular day of the month ....
PS - I wish they'd get their ID's right - the C130's are the 4-prop birds, the 141's have turbofans....
it sounds bad when you call a collection of unused flight inventory "airplane boneyard"
but consider that a collection of unused dwelling inventory is simply called "neighborhood", not "house boneyard"
and a collection of unwanted, older americans is simply called "retirement center", not "medicaid boneyard"
so we propose instead using the term "airplane neighborhood" for our planned cummunity of retired Kings of the Sky
hugs,
bill and melinda boeing
All those war planes... what a complete and utter waste of GDP, real production, and human potential. Look at it all.... millions upon millions of man-hours spent building machines that kill humans.
Paul Krugman approves...
How many trillions of USD sitting in the desert? Doesn't matter, the MIC got paid...
@ flacon: my sentiments exactly. This is the visible but hidden side of the supply side world we currently inhabit.
That is just mind-boggling. Multi-million dollar pieces EACH, all with probably a lot of useful life left in them, being wasted.
The MIC is really something else, a whole world onto themselves....
We've been inDUST Realized....
https://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2010/06/10/in-dust-realization/
Wonder what the Volt graveyard looks like?
speaking of dust....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUz9MyPMvcM
Krugman approves, Bastiat does not, but Bastiot never won the " Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel" which is totally mistaken by the sheep as a Nobel Prize.
F Me with a firehose if I ever get an award from Sweden's Central Bank.
And WTF does Sweden have to do with Norway's Nobel gig ?????
But then again, King Hussein, the drone killer-in-chief got a Nobel piece just for being a half-black that wormed his way into the big chair.
Thanks, Alfred.. he tortured and droned some folks to death.
"Go To Die"
My ass!
This is where the USAF and Evergreen operate the wonderful, patriotic, chemtrail spraying of US citizens with aluminum and barium salts by the billions of tons annually since 1996.
It's a perfect cover. Access to thousands of operable planes, ongoing refurbishment work and military.
KC 130s are rigged for spraying and fly by wire.
They bomb us at 600 - 1K miles off the west coast daily (strategically seeding storms, so it blows across the US) and you can see it in IR2:
http://www.goes.noaa.gov/goes-w/goes-weus-ir2.html
Attention! All salute the patriotic, murdering, sell-out, just following orders, reptiles in the indiscriminate "slow kill" of the "useless eaters". [tear in eye]
"Woe to the land shadowing with wings"
http://biblehub.com/kjv/isaiah/18.htm
"...billions of tons annually...."
There hasn't even been "biilions of tons" of Barium or Aluminum even MINED in the past 60 years!
YOU are a certified FUCKTARD!
"...billions of tons annually...."
Since 1996, you slimy, gutter snipe Troll!
http://www.world-aluminium.org/statistics/
You are the "certified fucktard", you sell-out, back stabbing piece of shit!
Just because you suck "ruling class" cock, doesn't mean we all do.
you nailed it flacon....hundreds of millions of man hours, hundreds of billions of dollars...blown to the Defence Industrial Complex and to Boeing.....
...are they saying that there is ZERO value to any of these aircraft on the world auction market? Can't we just give those Transport planes to UPS or FedX....do they really have NO value at all? Or, is this what we're going to give China in exchange for erasing a few hundred billion in Treasury Notes.
Hmmm I don't know about Fedex delivering my parcel in an old apache helicopter gunship, just something not right about that. The last guy who delivered my stuff was listening to the koran and had a long beard.
- keep them on camels...
Sell them out or rent them as living quarters. Post-apocalypso trailer park mansions. I know nothing about flying but I would love to have one of those sitting in my backyard.
<<so we propose instead using the term "airplane neighborhood" for our planned cummunity of retired Kings of the Sky>>
airplanes are insulated very well...they would make great apocalyptic living spaces in hot or cold climates.
FYI America has over 18.6 MILLION empty houses. You should not have a single homeless person if you drafted a law that any bank reposessed home after 1 year has to be sold at auction only to an individual that does not currently own a home or a limited company (no investor scoop ups)
http://themindunleashed.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/1888.jpg
Air attack outfits that contract with the forest service get to go to Davis montham and get free airplanes (not free, they have to pay a token $1). It's a trip to be one of the wakeup crew. You camp under the wing, and spend the days pulling off protective wrap and drinking beer in the heat. Look out for the scorpions and black widows and gila monsters. All's required is to get the engines running and the basic flight instruments working. It's a quick and dirty, no rules sort of A&P heaven, where all that counts is getting the bird flyable. FAA? What stinkin' FAA. This is a RESTRICTED category aircraft. When you stencil that word over the door in red paint, that tells the FAA to leave you alone. Fly at your own risk. What will they do, take my license away? It's the Forest Service you have to worry about now. That and the shadowy nexus between the FS, the CIA, and whoever else the CIA is working with/for.
After a couple of weeks of getting the bird ready, she's all stripped down and good to go. Bare basics are operational- engines, altimeter, airspeed, flaps, landing gear, and steering wheel. It's all low level VFR flying from Tucson back to home base in the deep boonies, where the Herc will get put together right. But it was fun down in the desert, and it's always fun when there aren't any rules.
Re: "...it's always fun when there aren't any rules."
<Shudder>
As a long-time wildland firefighter and 600 hour Cub pilot who has done some of my own work on minor *cough* repairs, I appreciate that story. All that aluminum in all that heat must get hotter 'en hell.
Maybe the Pentagon will send their F-35s there straight from the production line.
Now that's funny.
Not really ha-ha funny. More like sad-but-true funny.
He's not funny haha he's funny queer.--Carl in Slingblade
It's OK!! They might not make very good airplanes or give the access codes to the chinese before they are even built - but they do all have healthcare now!! Thanks Obama!
All those airplanes ready to crash into sky scrapers for war profiteering ventures and global governance. Nice to see the aviation stock piles plenty for future black swan psyops.
Imagine what America could have achieved, had all that perverse military spending actually gone toward something productive, something other than machines for killing people in other nations. Such wasted potential! It's mind-boggling. What an obituary for a once proud nation.
+1000 Lore. While I appreciate these aircraft in a military geek sort of way, I can still see working people living in cars and depeding of food shelves in damn near every major city while houses sit empty, farmland sits fallow and more good jobs are sent overseas. Our claim to fame after wasting billions on defense, killing millions of people and losing tens of thousands of our own soldiers is that we're marginally better than, say, Mexico. What a f'king prize.
the money wasted here alone could have built a massive collection of interstate canals and reservoirs to move mississippi flood waters west.....and those canals and reservoirs, once built, would still exist 100 years from now. A true investment for future generations.
Hmm good point, I wonder how much infrastructure we could of built if the Federal Reserves secret $16.5 Trillion handout to European Central banks had been used to improve schools, roads and infrastructure?
http://www.globalresearch.ca/have-you-heard-about-the-16-trillion-dollar...
when I read paragraphs like this, I always replace "America" or "US" or "USA" with some other country's name... oddly enough, it reads the same...
@ Post Turtle: Are you just being provocatively glib, or are you really so naive? TWENTY PERCENT (on the books, not even counting all the "black budgets") of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the largest economy of the world is consumed by the Military Industrial Complex (MIC). Production of offensive weaponry is siphoning more of this nation's capital in one year than any other nation in human history. The MIC has invaded twenty-seven countries since World War Two, based on lies, as real foreign policy was hijacked and legitimate defense morphed into an enforcement arm for the private central bank franchise, to defend a completely debased and corrupt regime for trafficking debt. THAT IS YOUR REAL NATIONAL IDENTITY AND YOUR LEGACY.
Eisenhower Warns of the Military Industrial Complex (c/o YouTube, 2min30sec)
I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things, The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains: round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Percey B Shelley
They can be styrofoam mockups, with just enough tire weights that they don't blow away...
Oh, ye of little faith. Rather than actually build new aircraft carriers, all the People's Republic of China has to do is to announce that it is building new aircraft carriers. Such an announcement throws America's war hawks into such a frenzy they spend gazillions planning, designing, boondoggling and perhaps even building new aircraft carriers.
If I recall correctly the US wants a 10:1 ratio of aircraft carriers to China's. China photoshops one aircraft carrier; US lobbies for ten. What does this mean for us (US)? It means an incredible waste of effort, intelligence, energy and funny money that might have been spent on something that could actually return the US to a civilized republic.
In addition, from all I have read, aircraft carriers are tethered cape buffalo, easy to shoot.
you got to admit they do preserve it well by closing up with plastic all the engines and windows so inside components dont melt. im sure they can use it if really needed to. from three planes you can rebuild two or something.
Minimalist photography, courtesy of Reggie Middleton.
Your tax dollars at rust.
Could've built quite a few hospitals and skools with those tax dollars. Nah
What a nice thing to do for your future invaders, but the parents of the kids that would've gone to those schools would still be dipshits who have no value for education and people would still smoke cigarettes and eat themselves into obesity.
I have an empty hospital and two empty schools in my town. Can I send them to you?
The planes maybe dead but the banksters still collect interest on the debt, bitchez!
They can have their debt, but they won't get anymore economic growth, nope...
The CIA is jealous
They move their white powder in Gulfstreams now.
Where your taxes go to die...
Can we send the TSA useless eaters here also.....PPPPPPPLEASEEEEEEEEEE?????
Where did that Air Malaysia 777 go to die? Oh that was Diego Garcia. My bad.
You didnt build that!
cash 4 clunkers, lockheed edition
I'd like my own F-14 Tomcat.
But they gotta throw in full tank of gas and a young Kelly McGillis.
Emphasis on "young."
She did not age well.
http://www3.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Kelly+McGillis+Stake+Land+Premiere+20...
And that's 2010.
I thought she was waa-aa-ay sexier in "Witness" than in "Top Gun".
And if I were a woman, I suspect that I'd rather hookup with Harrison Ford in his 30's than Tom Cruise in his 20's. Miffed, care to weigh in?
Make mine an A-10, please.
I wish I had my dad's plane: F4U Corsiar.
On another note, I hope when we sell planes to other countries we're pulling them out of these boneyards and slapping a coat of paint in the color of choice....
My dad flew those F4U Corsiars at the end of the war and eventually became the final Project Manager for the F4U Corsiar for the Navy. That litterally was his bird. What a great airplane!
If you're out of F-8, you're out of Fighters <3
The.....
3rd world war strifed countries...
PlaneMax - SUPER SHOPPING ACREAGE FOR AIR FIREPOWER!
I can hear the sound of our wealth getting sucked out right through our asses
I've always wanted to go to the boneyard. B1-B bombers and other awesome planes just sitting there.
Billions and billions of dollars wasting away. There has to be some use for those fantastic planes.
I say we create a Mad Max Thunderdome style fight to the death for the Wall Street bankers. Two fucks enter one fuck leaves. We use the remote control systems to get the planes in the air and let the bankers fight it out in fighter planes. Fantastic entertainment and who doesn't want to see Blankfein plummet to a fiery death.
Like an airshow. this place would be a great field trip for America's youths.
It would probably end up inspiring a ton of future pilots, engineers, arms dealers, etc..
Pilot is a dead end job - drones in 10-15 years will completely take over, especially fighter roles.
That view does seem to be gaining traction. The MIC doesn't push flashy, realistic video game simulators for nothing. We shouldn't be surprised to find some of the most dedicated, desensitized, malleable players in tomorrow's Armchair Air Corps.
Every job is a dead end job in that case.
That's certainly true of most service industry jobs, not to mention massive, disempowering bureaucracy. The word "drone" seems highly appropriate.
As mentioned in the article, the Pima air and space museum runs tours through the boneyard, and has examples of the sexy stuff at the museum itself you can look at up close.
It's a great way to kill a day, but ... I'd wait until October. We're on the verge of maximum suckage temperatures here.
Yeah, but it's a dry heat.
:D
And not too far away is the Titan missile museum; plan ahead if you want to tour the silo.
I would settle for making the criminal bankers scrap the planes to build playgrounds for autistic kids they created through greedy investments in the political lobby to allow chemical, genetic, and pharmaceutical companies to destroy life by poisoning the population at every level.
Just saying...
just like shadow inventory of foreclosed homes.
or future fema camps
I so want to play with one of those big ass APUs! Run that thing on some clean syngas.
F^%&ing waste of lives and treasure...
The military industrial complex and Washington should hold their heads in shame and beg for mercy. Not including tanks, artillery, missiles, weapon systems, firearms ammo, that we sell to other countries so they can use it up (killing and maming themselves and their kind) so we can build/buy more, improved and on and on. Just think how strong our country/DOD could be if we were deliberate, efficient and focused. A wanton disgrace to mankind.
Recycling Aluminum Aerospace Alloys
What a laugh this global warming crew is. These planes aren't moving, so you can't tax them. Progressives couldn't manage a ant farm.
Composites are probably even worse in terms of recycling.
So that's where those double seasonal revisions to GDP have been hiding.
seems like such a waste.
You can only put so many hours on an airframe before it is unsafe for flight. Keeping them flying would require regualar disassembly and magnafluxing for microfracturing. It makes more sense, monetarily, to park them for parts. Most the planes there have reached their airframe lifetime, or are just outdated (but kept ready in case of SHTF)
The stupidity of keeping these planes warehoused not ready to go if the SHTF scenario happens is this. While they are trying to get them air ready (pilot or drone controlled) all it takes is a satellite overhead with a microwave or laser to destroy these surplus planes. They are sitting ducks. Either they are decoys or a waste of resources if they aren't. The stupidity of keeping them for parts is there are more parts there in that boneyard than planes in whole world most likely.
You'd hide the SHTF planes underground or in a mountain.
Stupid ZH double-post
That was some serious shit load of moola transfered by Uncle Sam. I guess it can be called the EBT for those major shareholders of MIC & Finance.
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”
- Eisenhower
You look back, and my God - Ike was the last American president anyone could truly respect.
Kennedy - liar, womanizer, probably stole the election through voter fraud in Cook Co (long before Diebold machines, I note)
LBJ - Cunning, yes but not smart, and he started the US on the road to federal bankruptcy with his Great Society BS.
Nixon - Might have been a good pres, but after JFK stole '60, he was too bitter and paranoid. Did some good things, but ultimately wil be remembered as a crook.
Ford - No math please. And where's Poland?
Carter - Please.
Reagan - Hard to dislike the guy, but he was the original meat puppet.
Bush I - The only other guy since Ike I had hopes for. If he'd just pushed on in Iraq and taken Saddam out then, we'd live in a different world today.
Clinton - Hard to respect a guy who gets blowjobs from girls hardly older than his daughter while in the Oval Office.
Bush II - Complicit in the complete destruction of the Bill of Rights, aka Patriot Act
Bambam - Carter is Ike, compared to Chalky
George Carlin says it better, "The politicians are put there to give you the illusion that you have control. You don't. You have owners and they own you and this fucking place."
Here is Woodrow Wilson's repent : "I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men."
So that explains part of the $18T deficit we have now
Seeing those planes just sitting there remind me of the millions of people no longer being counted as unemployed but would do anythiing for a job. A real job.
I got a bad feeling that someone O'evil is going to fire those planes up and start using them against those very same people.
Those were KC-135's not 130's.
Tucson resident, here. You can actually see most variants of aircraft from the public road - no need to tour. Although, the Pima Air Museum has a bunch of old vets that hang out and can give you actual first-hand information. There are a couple retired SR71 and other test pilots that hang out there, too. Most of the planes were mothballed because their airframes reached their lifetime, or were outdated. Many don't have the mechanics (engines/hydraulics/etc) in them, but some are are a flight prep away in case the shit hits the fan or something. The AZ guard is also right over at the Tucson Airport - maybe another 100 F16s.
MH370? Nobody? I am disappoint.
In the buildup to the First Iraq War (circa 1990), 'merkuh was trying to mobilize all their massive 'resources' to transport the troops and materiel to the staging areas in Saudi Arabia. They were relying on the massive number of WWII 'Liberty Ships' that were in mothballs (since the late 1940's). Most of these ships were actually sinking at their berths; AND, they couldn't find anyone who knew how to operate their antiquated bunker-oil-fired steam boilers. 'Dials and pressures guages? You've GOT to be KIDDING!'
Anyway, if you recall, the 'buildup' took about FOURTEEN MONTHS, because the CONUS was scrambling to contract with Liberian-flagged freighters (as well as building the false narrative in a way which would be 'palatable', and doing 'damage control', due to the stories of the U.S. State Department encouraging Saddam to go ahead and 'take Kuwait').
These pictures remind me of THIS.
Fucking 'paper tiger'... to the tune of 18 plus TRILLION (officially)...
I'd be looking at the 'private' storage facility operated by 'Evergreen International Aviation' at Marana Air Park (Pinal County), AZ. It's a location (one of many) of the Chemtrailer conversions.
https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=A86.Jyiggl5VI20AjwonnIlQ?...
You already know this, I am sure, but for the benefit of others, Evergreen has a long history as a CIA front company. It also went chapter 7 BK last year, so that cutout has been activated.
"It also went chapter 7 BK last year, so that cutout has been activated."
That's a very interesting; almost trancendalogical statement.
When those who rely upon darkness in order to operate are exposed in the light of their misdeeds, they always seek avenues in which to obcsure their tracks; and try to regroup (if at all possible).
The 'names' change, but the people and the 'corporate' remain the same.
WITNESS: 'Blackwater' became 'XE', became...
No 'guilt', no 'indemnity', no PROSECUTION,
GEE. It sounds like the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Cartel pleading 'guilty' to drug-money laundering, or something. HERE: Let me massage your hand as I slap your wrist forcefully with a soft pillow! 'Lieutenant! Get the 'Comfy Chair'!
I never read Chapter Seven of the B(urger) K(ing) manual of 'hamburger making'. 'COMBINE ALL (intelligence and fiat financial) INDREDIENTS, so that the true nature and makeup and scource will not be recognized by the 'taxpaying consumer'. THEN,...
Southern Air also
I'd imagine the chemtrail fleet was procured from there
See my post, directly above. You're CLOSE...
You mean directly below don't you?
Who the fuck does not set comments to display newest first?
Um,
You? NO, it's ME, I guess. OOH, I am SO BAD...
Who the FUCK can't read the comments as they are posted within the logical stream, and make sense of them as they relate to responses and important addendums?
ME? NO, it's YOU, I (don't) guess.
I'd love to spend a couple days there just poking around.
Where the 9/11 mob started their lessons.
I'll take a C130 any day. Not fast but can land and takeoff on short runways. Carrys a shitload of stuff and when armed is one nasty mofo.
I remember this place from that movie! "Can't Buy Me Love"
Man that chick was hot. Wonder what happened to her. Google-Fu time!
I'd guess that John ('songbird') Squirrelcheeks McCain (R., AZ., Senator) tries to relive his 'glory days' by visiting these 'boneyards' on the weekends; late at night. All that 'tax money' he brought to Arizona by lobbying to store old worn-out shit from the 1960's (and the lucrative government guarantees of payment) probably get him all hard and shit.
As he ejaculates on the windscreen of an F-4, he probably recites, 'SEE? Look what I did for you; MY PEOPLE!'.
OOH-RAH! A 'Senator' who is 'STONG ON DEFENSE'!
As his Chicom NVA handler pulls his finger out of Johnny-boi's ass after the event, he smiles, and says, 'Tomorrow, we try to plaster windshield of A-10. You dad, he Admiral, he be very proud of you. Too bad; he die now.' (Pregnant pause, as McCain tucks his wrinkled, and shriveling winkie back in the flight suit) 'You got NICE wang! Say, we got bills you need pass in you government now. You like finger? I like doing finger! You cooperate?'
McCain, shaking his head (and bouncing his squirrel-cheeks back and forth against his jawbones), says 'Well, my constituents...'
'You no worry about NOTHING! WE got DIEBOLD! You KNOW you like finger! You come back tomorrow night, and we talk again, O.K.?'
Do they come with a water, electricity and sewer hookup?
Seems like perfect for startups or pharma labs.
Monthly or yearly rates?
The epic waste of the humans.
I wouldn't mind having one to convert to living quarters.
Faraday & up too high for Night of the Zombies.
great idea!
a good use of this waste
take a look at some of these
Main problem would be transport
http://io9.com/awe-inspiring-homes-and-buildings-made-out-of-old-airpl-4...
Oooo! I want a Lockheed L1011 Tr-Star! I want, I want! I saw at least five of them there - surely they wouldn't miss just one.
I'm looking for an SR-71, but can't find it...go figure.
Probably came up missing four planes around September 2001.
"Sir we're missing four planes." "We aren't missing shit son! Got it?!" "Yes, sir!"
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.
The amount of extreamly high quality stuff is an insane waste. Redundent switches galor. A N lines and sick SS hardware. A fabracators dream. Fasteners and latches and fittings and really high quality cannon conectors. Such a waste. Real elecro-hydrolic solenoids that work every time. Real regulators that always work right and the gauges too.
You aint gonna find anything that good at some box store.
Related by Name I guess. I heard this is a Federal Requirement for Infrastructure Projects to charge Union Rates for Repair of Bridges, Roadways, Highways, probably Dams, maybe hydroelectric plants.
The gist is contractors would charge like 1/10 of what Federal Contracts get Proposed for and Funded for... Real or fake or urban legend they say this Davis Bacon act requires rates used by Unions in the USA for these federal contracts.
Davis–Bacon Act
- Signed into law by President Herbert Hoover on March 3, 1931
The Davis–Bacon Act of 1931 is a United States federal law that establishes the requirement for paying the local prevailing wages on public works projects for laborers and mechanics. It applies to "contractors and subcontractors performing on federally funded or assisted contracts in excess of $2,000 for the construction, alteration, or repair (including painting and decorating) of public buildings or public works".[1]
The act is named after its sponsors, James J. Davis, a Senator from Pennsylvania and a former Secretary of Labor under three presidents, and Representative Robert L. Bacon of Long Island, New York. The Davis–Bacon act was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Herbert Hoover on March 3, 1931.[2]
The C-130 population at the boneyard is insane. Most of those birds are probably perfectly good low-time airframes.
It's called "C-130 math"
http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175659/
Nice article for a change of pace!
I was lucky enough to spend a couple weeks there for a Crashed, Damaged and Disabled Aircraft Recovery training seminar. We weren't able to wander around too much but we could take as many pictures as we liked. If only those old airframes could talk...imagine the stories...
and Tucson! I would move there in a heartbeat!!
Go ahead, and move on down to Tuscon, where cowboys wear pointed boots so that they can kick cocroaches in the corners of their kitchens!
Since you were 'lucky enough' to attend your 'CDDAR' seminar (as a part of your continued conditioning process), did you happen across the remains of Flight 800, or MH370, or the missing 'black boxes' from 'September 11th' or something?
You can't take it when you go, though.
You're not from 'around here', are you?
Doesn't Tucson have a water supply problem? Yes, yes it does: Tucson's Water Supply Assured - For Now (Arizona Public Media, 24-Mar)
Pima Air Museum offers tours of the boneyard. It's worth it once just to see all the one-off oddities of aviation for the DOD that are there.
Speaking of planes, the word on the street is McCain caused the Forrestal Disaster by purposely backfiring his A4's engine on the flight deck.
Can anyone confirm or deny this?
While I've heard the same, the accident was pretty well studied/documented, and came from a rocket that misfired when a plane was plugged/unplugged from ground power.
Wikipedia has a pretty good background on the story.
McCain a a complete dick, hardcore member of TPTB that I wish could go away, but much as I'd like to lay this on him, it doesn't appear to be his fault.
Dont know but he was one of the Keating five.
He's one of my state's senators, Keating just scratches the surface of how corrupt that mofo is. His personal life is just as corrupt as his political.
I genuinely question if he's won his last couple elections legitimately; I don't know a single person that voted for him and I hang around with some pretty hardcore republicans. The state and largest county Republican party has even censured him as recently as last year because his record isn't republican. How he stays in office is a legitmate mystery, since senate seats can't be gerrymandered.
That fuckwad is the most celebrated retard ever to get his plane shot out from under his own ass. The only thing worse is that the Vietnamese didnt finish him. By not wasting that son-of-a-bitch, we're all the poorer . . . every day that he draws air.
Teenage Wasteland ( Baba O`Riley ) - The Who
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr6aQDxj7D8
Somewhere, there's an A-7D (#258) with my name on it. Yes, I'm that old.
And an OH-58C (#636) with my name on it.
Sooo When the Aliens attack we can start'em back up?
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Now that looks like channel that's already been stuffed.
Look up Gander crash.CIA Airline,Pine Air,Arrow air,something.Grab a bunch of fuel thirsty 737's from Pima (leased thru a Delaware corp.? Gotta love those skull and Boners),fly them thru Cairo airport (they love us infidels there!),plant a bomb in the avionics bay,and ya got a situation.Read some of the stories of the Gander crash families.Breaks your heart.And they trusted their gov't to behave responsibly?
Pan Am 103,Lockerbie? CIA courier on board? Checked,un-checked luggage?
TWA 800: Complete idiot from NTSB spends an hour explaining group psychology.Boeing takes the rap for crappy fuel tanks that won't stand up to an expanding rod warhead.(i.e. "If you want any more Defense work,shut up and get back down to the stoke hold").
TWA 800 HUGE coverup
I was stationed there from 86 -93. Worked at the SE end of the runway on those C-130s you can see parked nearby. They still fly. I worked on F-4G Wild Weasels in Germnany and watched them roll into the boneyard one by one and was happy about it. An F-4G is a mf to work on. Then I watched them start pulling them back out and got moved to Nellis in Vegas to once again work on them. Got out 9 months later.
Supposedly they pay for the storage by avoiding having to source high dollar replacement parts for the relics stil flying. I can believe it.
We have all this extra $hit and we still give them this:
State Department, Pentagon approve massive weapons sale, worth $1.9 billion, to Israel in bid to ward off concerns over Iran nuclear negotiations, Gulf states' military procurements.
Ron Ben-Yishai, Yitzhak Benhorin
Published: 05.20.15, 21:20 / Israel NewsThe US State Department approved a massive sale of bombs and missiles worth $1.897 billion, pending final congressional authorization. The procurement package includes bunker buster munitions and its timing suggests the Americans are seeking to alleviate Israeli concerns over the developing deal with Iran.
The colossal weapons deal is believed to also be intended to prevent vocal opposition by Israel and its allies to the commitments made by President Barack Obama at Camp David to arming Gulf states.
The pending package to Israel includes 3,000 Hellfire missiles for the air force's helicopters. During Operation Protective Edge, the US suspended a transfer of the air-to-surface missiles over its disapproval of Israel's campaign against Gaza.
The weapons deal will also significantly increase the Israeli Air Force's precision munitions cache, with hundreds of GPS and laser-guided bombs and missiles included in the package.
The Department of Defense added that "Israel, which already has these munitions in its inventory, will have no difficulty absorbing the additional munitions into its armed forces. The proposed sale of these munitions will not alter the basic military balance in the region."
The Defense Security Cooperation Agency – a section of the Department of Defense – said it submitted the required certification to Congress on May 18. If approved by the US legislature, Israel will receive the massive shipment, which among other tactical weapons includes 50 BLU-113 Super Penetrator and 700 BLU-109 Penetrator bunker buster missiles.
The statement said that "the United States is committed to the security of Israel, and it is vital to US national interests to assist Israel to develop and maintain a strong and ready self-defense capability."
Yep, got to keep those Jewish war factories profitable.
So if US Fedcoat .gov trusts other national .govs SO little as to make all these aircraft necessary, then we the people are going to need some more (and bigger) guns.
First aircraft I ever worked on 1965 - Torrejon Air Base Spain.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/tbzr7euknw5utu2/Ol%20Shakey.JPG?dl=0
Ol Shakey, C-124 Globemaster. C-5 replaced it
As an aside. you could crawl thru the wings from fuselage IN FLIGHT to get behind engines and adjust oil and fuel pressure.
They used to send me in there because I was an 18 year old skinny airman back then,
With old Shakey we used to joke. Check the gas and fill up with oil. notorious oil burners.
Trip across Atlantic took 2- 3 days. Torrejon to Lajes Azores, crew rest, then on to Bermuda, crew rest, then on to Charleston AFB SC.
Unpressurized, and SLOW. (hence the Shakey)
You don't need a graveyard for old Chinooks and Ospreys .... they all crash before their warranty expires ! I see all those beautiful planes .... and all I see .... is cheap drone conversions !
I now realise where commercial airlines got the idea of re-arranging seats inside planes so that each seat actually faces another. It needs a lot less space per passenger seat so more seats can be crammed in. More revenue. It's only a matter of time until we see it. First by the low-cost budget airlines, then the rest.
This photo shows the idea came from how they park planes in Azizona:
Reducing passenger space needed
I think you shoud try! the reclining seats are going to stuff your idea of stuffing people.
Cattle transport, why not?. That is how they treat their subject in other ways.
Man o man. We are in for rough times.
The British (Irish?) low-cost airline Ryan Air announced this changed seating plan at least a year or two ago. Not sure if they've implemented it yet.
What a waste.
Rich man, eye of the needle, heaven and all that jazz.
Wonder if it works for a nations as well.
USA, the best funded the best equipped and the deadliest terror organisation in the world.
I put on my tinfoil hat this morning.
Look for new Chinese aircraft to be rolled out soon, that looks very much like a B-777
MH370 hijacked to reverse engineer.,
Then I took tinfoil hat off and slapped myself
LOL
I'd like to take the old expats living on the american dole and slap them too.
Living on the dole? How about living on 4 pensions that I worked for? Retired for 10 years already. WTF you talking about , American DOLE. Idiot!!!!!!
Do you know what a pension is? Its something that you pay into.
Have a nice day, MORON!!
I've got no idea what it is because your greedy ass generation signed me up for tail end of a fucked up ponzi scheme...people pay into those too. Just die already.
"You mean I pay in a little bit and get a lot later???!!! Sounds too good to be true...SIGN ME UP BOSS!"