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I’ve past through the area several times. An episode of Ride with Norman Reedus, had them being on an escorted tour through there. There is another aircraft boneyard north of Tucson, visible from I-10. That one is for commercial aircraft. Rumored that it was used by counter terrorist groups for training against hijackers. You can’t get near it.


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I was involved in getting one of those B-52's to the Davis-Monthan boneyard from Castle AFB California in 1974. During a phase inspection a crack was discovered in the wing root area of the fuselage that ran 10 feet down the side of the airplane. Boeing said "Scrap it- - - -it can't be fixed!" They had to call for a volunteer crew to make one last flight since the aircraft was technically "unsafe to fly". There's no telling how long the crack had been there, as all the planes at Castle were used for training rookie BUF pilots, and they got stressed pretty much during less than smooth landings.


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Every plane I ever flew in the USAF is sitting there somewhere - or gone to become beer cans.


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Every once in a while I get caught up in looking at that area on Google maps or Google earth. Lots of history compiled there.

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If Yellowstone was to erupt and bury that (it's well inside the fallout zone where more than 100 feet of ash was dumped the last time) imagine what future beings would think when they uncovered that during some archeological dig millions of years from now.


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Originally Posted by RockyRaab
Every plane I ever flew in the USAF is sitting there somewhere - or gone to become beer cans.

Or spacecraft...

Both types of aluminum come from the same mills


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I've had a ride on a few of those. Sad stuff it is.


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At one time you could go to the Pima Air Museum and they would have a bus tour to and through the boneyard, don't know if they still do it.

Makes me sad to see it.

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In ‘85, as we were closing down East coast F-4 training, another pilot and I flew solo out to DM in two Phantoms. The one I flew was going to the boneyard and it’s pretty sad when you walk away and turn all the maintenance logs over to the guys there. One of the things they specifically check for before you leave the jet is that both “8 day clocks” are in place as they have a tendency to disappear. 😊 The other jet went to Point Mugu to be turned into a target drone.

About that same time another one of my buds and I soloed two jets down to NAS Key West. The one I flew was made a static display near the main gate and Google Earth shows it’s still there just inside the main gate.


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Every plane I ever flew in the USAF is sitting there somewhere - or gone to become beer cans.

Or spacecraft...

Both types of aluminum come from the same mills

And really, more or less result in the same structure, albeit on a different scale.


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Always being a plane buff and growing up as an AF dependent...

it always makes me sad to see planes being scrapped... after serving our country and our nation....

Glad I wasn't around that at the end of WW 2.... I've seen pictures taken at Kingman AZ when the war ended, when they were scrapping miles upon miles of B 24s and B 17s.. many which had seen a lot of combat time overseas...

Lived in Britain for 3 years in my youth.. over there they have no place to put planes once they have finished their tours of duty...

they may celebrate the history of a particular plane for having a historical life... and then the next day it goes to the scrap heap...


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Originally Posted by navlav8r
In ‘85, as we were closing down East coast F-4 training, another pilot and I flew solo out to DM in two Phantoms. The one I flew was going to the boneyard and it’s pretty sad when you walk away and turn all the maintenance logs over to the guys there. One of the things they specifically check for before you leave the jet is that both “8 day clocks” are in place as they have a tendency to disappear. 😊 The other jet went to Point Mugu to be turned into a target drone.

About that same time another one of my buds and I soloed two jets down to NAS Key West. The one I flew was made a static display near the main gate and Google Earth shows it’s still there just inside the main gate.
Please explain what an 8 day clock is and why someone would want them?


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The fourth picture shows a bunch of A-10’s.
Notice how many fuselages are without wings.


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Originally Posted by Godogs57
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In ‘85, as we were closing down East coast F-4 training, another pilot and I flew solo out to DM in two Phantoms. The one I flew was going to the boneyard and it’s pretty sad when you walk away and turn all the maintenance logs over to the guys there. One of the things they specifically check for before you leave the jet is that both “8 day clocks” are in place as they have a tendency to disappear. 😊 The other jet went to Point Mugu to be turned into a target drone.

About that same time another one of my buds and I soloed two jets down to NAS Key West. The one I flew was made a static display near the main gate and Google Earth shows it’s still there just inside the main gate.
Please explain what an 8 day clock is and why someone would want them?
Just what it says. You only had to wind it every eight days. Very accurate time piece. Kind on a nostalgia thing, everyone wanted one. They were common across plenty of airframes, they'll fetch around $250~$400 from collectors.
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Yep. That’s the one. The big knob on the lower left is the winding stem. The number one thing that caused them to malfunction was overwinding it, jamming the mainspring. It may just be hard to see in the photo but it had a stop, reset and start button at the top, right (IIRC) corner. The short arrow at three o’clock was an elapsed time arrow.

In the jet syllabus, a lot of what we do in the early instrument stages is against the clock….half standard rate turns, standard rate turn and a bunch of other scan building exercises. On occasion, on Monday mornings the clock would have run down and when the student and instructor synch their clocks, the student’s clock wouldn’t start. I would explain to the stud it was common and tell him to just give it a couple of winds. “How do you do that Sir?” 😳

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A lot of these got "souveniered" over the years, hard to keep them in the aircraft. I never got one but just because I didn't really want one.

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Know this place well. I do bee removals for them in their planes usually 5-10 times a year. Very cool placeand they all hate bees....grin...


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When I was a kid I got to go in the boneyard. Climbed up a little into the Bock's Car and a JU-88. Lots of B-47's and B-36's there and first gen fighters. The fighters were stacked about 4 high.

Eight or ten years before that they were selling P/F-51's, some with as little as fifty hours or ferry time on them and they were selling for $500-$1500. Also, back then you could get a balloon pilot license with no experience, IIRC.

Out at Litchfield Park, which is southwest of Phoenix, Spads and Corsairs were being melted down. After the Corsair/P-51 air war in Guatemala the Gov't stopped seilling surplus combat aircraft to citizens.


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