Aircraft Graveyared

[Arabhacks]

Military aircraft require a limited form of clearance, nothing more.

I raid the place for spares for helicopters as needed.

I may be deployed for a month cataloging everything we may need, hundreds of pages of stuff on the laptop.

Once done it is time to take things apart, that is the rest of the year.

[psycho2596]

R.I.P F-14 TOMCAT

[daddybonzita1]

I've been there in the 80's. AT that time you could get to the civilian aircraft, but not the military. As far as they don't rot away. BS! the sand storms and heat tear everything to bare metal, insulation on wires dry out and crack, anything permiable by the rains is destroyed. The temp ranges from 30 degrees to 120, wet, dry, wind. It's abusive.

[ppfilipino]

in the Philippines, we are able to use the metal for spareparts in any form

[john198119811]

can u go visit these places or is it restricted to military only?

[bodnet]

Dear YouTube video uploader, any chance you could make this content available on mobile devices? Thanks, smartphone user.

[BrittaProducts]

How many other things might have been created with the money spent on all these airplanes? How many tax payer dollars does this represent? Look up Eisenhower's Cross of Iron speech - he said it best.

[9241937]

@BrittaProducts If all the money, energy, creativity, innovation used to produce weapons to kill and destroy had been utilized to house, feed, cure, etc. just think what a different world we'd be living in. I guess the only problem then would be overpopulation given the number of persons killed(and theri reproductive potential) as a result of wars since humans learned how to produce such weapons.

[YFZ450x600]

I would love to just wander through that place.....Would be awesome to have a few piseces of those planes

[lizajanejoeclark]

All the resources that went into those aircraft--for what?

[burek06]

this is just an idea, get some un-employed americans there to dismantle them for recycling.....jobs are going begging!!

[DoctorTranIsBack]

fucking shame. waste of money and PERFECT PLANES.

[GTASA911]

@DoctorTranIsBack Only that those planes are much unsafer than modern ones..

[DoctorTranIsBack]

@GTASA911 true, but people still drive classic cars around.

[theflyingace12]

thats a crying shame

[nanodrone93]

i'd like to go there and to take away some pieces of that planes :D

[ProfessorIgor]

all those Buffs have ot be on display out in the open, and many disassembled according to the SALT treaties that our complete dumbfuck of a president (Jimmy Carter) just HAD to sign.. The Russians need to see them with their satellites..

[Apache8GW]

Love it....grew up in Tucson! Loved driving at night and seeing the giant tales in the distance :)

[oresteiaanetik]

0:17 tetris 

[Noskillah]

I want one of them to my backyard ... 

[MrOrmesby]

I hear that this is the fifth largest airforce in the world..... and the only airforce that actually makes any money. They are not rotting away, the dry atmosphere of Arizona won't allow that. They are actually utilised for spare parts, (saving the US taxpayer a lot of money). That has to be a good thing. Some of gthe old girls do manage to get brought back into service... I could spend a week just wandering through the place.... would be the best holiday of my life...!!!!

[jwolf2002]

sad..

[skeilak]

There's something so sad about these old war birds left to decay out there.

Even the runway is sad...

This is the last time you'll ever land, old girl...

Now you'll take your place amongst the other forgotten veterans.

You did your duty. You served your nation. And you always brought your crew home, safe.

Rest well, old friend.

[636Castle]

@skeilak A lot of these aircraft never saw deployment, and a very high percentage of the parts off of them, including engines and instruments are reused.

[skeilak]

@636Castle

"A lot of these aircraft never saw deployment...", I'd have to question that statement.

Every aircraft I see in this video, were, in their time, extensively deployed.

If you scroll back, you'll see that I commented earlier that these aircraft are salvaged for parts, (as evidenced in the video,) before finally being sold-off as scrap metal.

[hailherrosner]

There's a reason why all these aircraft have not been scrapped, and left in the Desert, the U.S. knows that in case of a major breakout of war, all those B-52 bombers will be needed once more as well as all those other fighters. The Desert preserves metal really well, metal does not rust easily in hot climates.

[CARVER1110]

wow...not even that lot will stop the russians if they get the 50,000 or so T55s out of storage

[Splop10]

Hey, can you sell us Brits some of those warbirds? We've been left with fuck all now that the Harriers are gone.

[jonboy1973]

@Splop10 how else are we to finance the work shy? how else are we to pay for housing and support for radical muslims?....fucking grinds my gears!!!

[HuskerSeaofRed]

@Splop10 What's our is yours! I'll help you load em up. lol

[skeilak]

@Splop10

I believe you guys are slated to buy the naval version of the Lockheed F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

It's got better vertical take-off capability and maneuverability, higher speed, and a superior weapons load-out, compared to the old Harrier.

And that, should make you Brits a hell of a lot nastier to tangle with.

[Splop10]

@skeilak Oh I really hope so, because right now we are a sitting duck. :(

[xD3M0NPUN15H3Rx]

getting ready for 2012, take off te fuck, half a day later, outta fuel FUCK!!

[blixten191]

Think what that money is there, but fortunately it caused it just is not used o ... slammed down the shit!!

[lonewolfairsoftwars]

All yur planes are belong to me

Hi ill take 40 F15 EAGLES

and 20 B15s

O yess and another 100 blackhawks

[MrFluffy1979]

sell the f4 for presavtion

[platinum243125]

These days, we just sell them to saudi arabia and israel

[Obelix6]

What a ridiculous waste! At minimum they should be recycled.

[Demoist]

@Obelix6 The electronics inside are, Copper wire is always good.

[skeilak]

@Obelix6

Do you see any aircraft from the 1950's, 60's, or early 70's?

Once they are sure they'll never be reactivated, and they've no need of their parts, these aircraft will be sold, as scrap aluminum.

That beer can you just threw out, might once have been a part of a C-144, or an F-105.

[filozovs]

@Obelix6 Most of them are in the reserve, they will be used if theres a need.They arent just sitting there.

[zakudog]

man all those poor a-10's and f-14's

[orli3880]

all deads ?

[FirstFlight271]

Man wtf ? whats wrong them ? give me B-52

[tahoevic]

Melt the fuckers create som jobs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ThePlainzryder]

Say, do you have a good used alternator for an F-4.........?

[BrendanKearnsMusic]

I walked this once when I was a little kid. Memories from Preschool.

[MaxWiseman]

it's so awesome looking at this place on google earth.

[bdcp]

@MaxWiseman where?

[MaxWiseman]

@bdcp near davis monthan air force base, you can zoom in nice and close

[bdcp]

@MaxWiseman wow thanks!

[bajanxxxx]

how about to reuse all that metal why just let rott it there great thinking of the U.S.A GOWERMENT build much as hell then leave it to rott there great idiot`s

[patonb]

@bajanxxxx Tats the thing.. they don't rot there. It's in the desert, and if/when parts are needed they can go and get it. Some of those planes have been there for decades.

[kiemc100]

that a lot of aircraft!

[ricardoeldelmustang]

gimmie an F14!!!! I´ll take it to the sky again!

[bubub56]

if theres one thing i finde chilling its a air craft grave ward mainly becaus i saw heavy metal the movie as a kid

[w00dy0694]

0:19 someones nicked a plane

[IMPERIALFISH99]

i want a b-52 i mean they have more than 50 of the lovely planes

[helperout]

SO !!! , this is where our Tax Dollars are going .

[mssedmebich]

@helperout The B-52 has been in the military inventory for 60 years and they are still used to this day. The cargo truck I drove in Iraq in 2005 was built in the early 80's. We actually make some things last if they were designed and built well to begin with.

[MrSkidooguy1]

B-52??????

[Poopingbotham]

Wow, that's some air force! It may be true that they could be made airworthy 'in no time' in case of a sudden major war, but I reckon they're all out of date. The trend now - I believe - is for drones

[jaxes88]

they call it recycling, i call it ruining

[oneluckydutchstrike]

are those operational

[tippman2k01]

can u buy any of these planes?

[nicvallecillo]

@tippman2k01 LOL like you'd have 5 million to throw down on one? lol quit being drunk or high, or maybe even on meth, just chill out mofo.

[tippman2k01]

@nicvallecillo ok douche bag enough with the immature insults. i am curious how much a frame of certain aircraft runs. and 5 mil does sound expensive for an f4u corroshair......you can buy one running for 1 mil

[iamjacobnz]

I wonder how many of them could be pushed into service given a week to prepare them, in the event of a war. Could use theose big ones for launch pads, with the controlls on the modern planes, to launch huge salvos of rockets, in the event of another Wwar.

[surfordie82]

Oh shit... thats alot of old airplanes

[dustz33]

I TOLD THEM TO STOP TAKING PICTURES OF MY BACKYARD!

[dimensionsiemens]

wasting American tax payers money..should have helped the disabled and the homeless people and not forgetting the poor people

[brice1157]

really? all of those planes are still usauble the military has them there for a reason in case they ever needed them they keep them maintaind and could be flight ready in no time. they wouldnt look in that great of condition especiall for as long as theyve sat there

[iamjacobnz]

@brice1157 Theyve allready brought back ww2 era retired stock (more than 70 years old) in the invasion of iraq. In a real war I would imagine everything would be pressed back into service, but I don't know how fast, and they would need to refit alot of them for them to be of much value militarily, in a combat situation that is...

[Poopingbotham]

@iamjacobnz Whaaat? What 'WW2 era retired stock' was that?

[aeiou772]

wealth of U.S. tax payers rots in desert

[frenchiewahoo]

its sad to see all of those jets go to waste in some RUSSIAN'S CORNFIELD THAT THEY WATER W/VODKA!

[Aalvafaust]

It's good to see my tax money in action :)

[EasternMerchant]

what do they do with all those extra planes?

[YagoRj357]

Wow i just imagine some terrorist throwing a bomb right on the middle of that

[sjcottsi]

 Taxpayer dollars swirling down the drain.

[ZSJUK]

who stole that plane 0:16

[ZSJUK]

who stole that plane 0:16

[SuperBenkoo]

What happens with the with all that metal?

[kiwiboy1]

sell the metal as scrap might pay off the US debt

[thetrialshot]

@kiwiboy1 yeah lol

[SuperBenkoo]

@kiwiboy1 I agree.

[EmperorOfMars]

@kiwiboy1 eff that, sell the planes them selfs

[ControlledTV]

@kiwiboy1 But who will we sell to? More bombers?

[MarcCzulewicz]

@kiwiboy1 Not even close



[ES350ES350]

Second largest Air force in the world.

[1131982vincent]

What a wast of money.

[BuickDoc]

@1131982vincent The whole military is a waste of money, unless you need it.....

[MiGFlug]

Sad! would like to visit this place on day

[pierrelareux]

they should fill em up with terrorist and fly them back to afganistan with not enough fuel to land

[BlueEagle4825]

I bet you half of those planes are still flyable

[ES350ES350]

Everything comes to an end.

Airplanes, elephants, human, lizards, trees, oceans, stars, ants, galaxies and eventually the universe.

Sad but true.

[stupidtuna]

I wish all the planes can tale off in the same time oor be a huge team attack somewhere

[Siporillo503]

Man, it is just impresive to watch, you can actually see them from I-10 traveling from Phoenix to Tucson, I used to drive throu there every weekend.

[LfcGoddardENGCJG]

there parts planes, if they could fly they would be in the middle east.

[BlueFox284]

I want one of those F-4's. . .Have it sit right in the front yard :D

[itapirkanmaa]

Your taxpayer money at rest!

[UnkownSoldier117]

Please just give me ONE F-15!! That's all I ask for ONE!

[scottherling14]

@EAFSQ9 i saw those planes i used them to fly all the way to hawaii deal gotta call me 215-831-8123

[MFP1520]

nice scrap metal

[britishairways757]

i wonder if you can go there and nick a few parts out of the cockpits ;)

[kumakocoa]

Anyone know if these are viewable to the public?

[MichaelW4x]

@kumakocoa Sure are, I think theres tours on the weekend

[thejokerxxl96]

one question why not sell it !!!

[nyehnyeh96]

waaaaa!! so sad!

[LiLJohn71088]

SCRAP YARD! i need all of them! lol

[Frans1Wanksta]

32°09'N 110°49'22"W

Google Maps / Satellite

[mazda1024]

0:30 is that a f 15 eagle in the middle?? and f 14 right?...

[Trund27]

Strangely, and frighteningly beautiful

[Phonxer]

1:00 + 1:04 WTF?! where are those places at?

[Lechoni21]

so many could've been feed with the money used in building these...

[ashthebash95]

They keep the planes, because if they go to war they have alot of planes at there disposal or parts for other planes.

[MultiBeAsTmOde32]

is that the only one [airraft graveyards] or are there many more than that?

[cronicd21]

why don't they recycle the scrap metal, such a waste

[datzfast]

all the dollars it cost to build the birds are still in circulation today. to bad the planes are not

[cardude1992]

i just cant bear the thought of destroying these planes.. did i see some f-15s and f-14s at 0:25 sec? so sad

[alysonlemos]

impressionante o número de aeronaves!

[salinagrrrl69]

all that tax money - the co$t of freedom/

[Trendwin]

What's funny is 1/2 those aircraft that are in the boneyard are more advanced than 90% of all the aircraft other nations have.

[Marcelezis]

Can't ya see?

it all makes perfect sense

expressed in dollars and cents,

pounds chillings and pence

can't ya see

it all makes perfect sense

[SAMCAMJAIK1]

I bet this where China Airlines gets their planes!

[micometer]

Saddest thing is that most of the countries we've been fighting are still using planes that are older than the ones shown in this clip.

[MsAlex2321]

ill take 3 of each

[efaktuser]

America have the biggest budget deficit (wrong word?) in the world!!!

Now I see why.... waste of money!!

[mafia1911]

wtf at 0:24 :((((((

F-14 tomcat :(((((((( so sad to see the sweetest and the sexiest airplane disposed on boneyard like this

it makes me very sad when i see a dismelting of these aircraft in excelent condition

leave one tomcat to me when i get money so i can buy one,without weapons i dont care xD

[2ninerniner2]

let's build some more! :) ... got to keep that Military - Industrial Complex going, you know ... good for the economy/

[xy274]

so organized....

[mosesanderson]

id like one for a house

[kennyworth1967]

How many schools could have bben built with this money?

[NickB1967]

@kennyworth1967: Facing down the Soviet Empire was money well spent, frankly. Appeasement leads only to worse. And lately our schools don't teach about that at all. Indeed, they seem to be full of "professors" who are Soviet stooges.

[kennyworth1967]

@NickB1967 I don't need history lessons from you.I spent 2 years in the Army patrolling the old East/West German and Czeck borders..Hey,whatever happened to that ''peace dividend'' we heard so much about after the fall of the Soviet Union.? Now we are spending billions to blow up goat herders..

Like I said,all this military spending is a waste and it wont do any good against a determined guy with a BOXCUTTER..

[MFP1520]

a waste of tax payers money.

[NickB1967]

@MFP1520: Facing down the Soviet Empire was money well spent, frankly. Appeasement leads only to worse.

[Imprudentman]

@NickB1967 money was well spent .. you're a desperate fighter. USSR was never afraid of American military power. USSR mired in an arms race and the standard of living stood at 60's. These are the main reasons the USSR collapsed. Besides the declared communism was only a fairy tale for adults . This could be convinced even the members of the Party Committee. The military invincibility of the United States is a myth the 20 th century.

[NickB1967]

@Imprudentman: "USSR mired in an arms race" --gee, why was that again? Desperate fighter, indeed. Let's hear it for your 20/20 hindsight. Communism was a fairy tale for adults, but that didn't make it any less dangerous. Many people believed in the Nazis and many people believe in Islamic savagery today.

[Imprudentman]

@NickB1967 Because this is a story that would be nice to know that to understand where we're headed. Nazism and communism as an ideology of socialism. They present themselves as the two poles of one (north and south) of the magnet (socialism). Communism was dangerous its mythical, as well as fact that the Russian in Russia could be Russian, but only the Soviet people, and the Chechens were evicted .. Islam is a religion and philosophy. I am not a supporter of Islam, but it is their religion.

[Imprudentman]

@NickB1967 would like to tell you that the U.S. is trying to solve an impossible task dangerous methods. You're going to build democracy in Iraq and Afghanistan? "But it's a fairy tale for adults. They will build their Society themselves and they have that right. Is not it? United States is waging war in the region. Ie for oil and profits of companies and really comes to the throat, not only of democracy in these countries but their own.

[Magicpianoteacher]

may they Rest in Peace.

[Waddeck43]

sick, cant they be completly recycled then? like al the metal and stuff.

[mosesanderson]

@Waddeck43 thats what the do with them after a a while

[MikePresents2]

These planes are cannibalized for parts - The airframes have been stressed and are eventually melted down. The 'cream of the crop' is moved across the street to the Pima Air Museum and preserved.

[timbitski]

how much money is sitting there - seriously!? After the fact kind of seems like a bit of a waist. like eating kraft dinner for 20 years to pay for a car you drive once every other year twice around the block.

[mosesanderson]

@timbitski there would be well over 100 billion I Know that the 2nd hand boeing 747 is aroun 20-30 million

[Ken8129]

@mosesanderson airworthy 747s built in the late 80s only go for about 4-8million these days

[NickB1967]

@timbitski: it is not a waste at all. The surplus airplanes are either (1) kept in reserve "just in case", or (2) sold or donated to allied nations, or (3) used as spare parts for other planes of the same type still in service. Eventually they are recycled entirely, but the process takes years.

[emigrantgap]

if all these planes put on full thrust at the same time, do you think we could make the earth rotate faster? or slow 'er down?

[mosesanderson]

@emigrantgap they have no engine and are pretty much completely stripped

[verdemanthe1]

is this place open to the public

[mrs341341]

Triste demais! Pq não reaproveitá-los!? Muito alumínio,ferro,aço e etc desperdiçados...

Very sad!

[gilesyone]

I wonder how many people met their end by the hands (wings) of one of these jets. Lots of history there, especially the B52's...

I'd like to find out one day how many missions each specific jet flew (I'm in the military and know 1000's of hours would be to/fro somewhere but every aircraft has a spirit/character from the people that have flown in it...

[Deadboltt]

I'd love to walk in there with a bag of tools and technical manuals then fly out.

[verdemanthe1]

@Deadboltt no manuals needed just take me with you 

[TAYZER30]

man might as well hook us up with some free planes here in NZ. we're kind of defenseless at the moment LMAO we'll trade u..10 fighter jets for a life time export of good potatoes haha what? flippin sweet deal if you ask me

[StormHorizon]

@TAYZER30

Haha, you do need some firepower : )

It reminds me of this:

tinyurl [dot] com/6zgc4q

(Youtube doesn't like links. It just goes to another video)

[verdemanthe1]

@TAYZER30 if you are the decision maker for the defense forces I know of relatively cheap fighter jets and can hook yall up

[mosesanderson]

@TAYZER30 Dont forget kiwi fruit

[NickB1967]

@TAYZER30: Oz bought our surplus F111's, we probably have more to spare. :-)

[Imprudentman]

@NickB1967 You fight against terrorism? But armored and motorized divisions are not designed for this. This should be dealt with intelligence agencies. must expose channels of funding to implement agents in terrorist organizations and so on. g. I would argue that the airplane graveyard United States has multiplied in the exercise of power politics.

[istvanklein]

@TAYZER30 You're a lucky lot down there. Porbably the only country in the world that's completely safe from any potential attack.

[tweetingsparrow]

@TAYZER30 yeah and we could use them as housing too - I'd have one in the backyard as a sleepout.

[kinsley2108]

@TAYZER30 They did, but we denied them, lol. Silly Uncle Helen.

[kllemall1]

@TAYZER30 so true man we got nothing and if shtf we would be screwed

[kozarac5]

Pretty sure some of these planes are just being stored because there's no where else to put them. You can't just park a b-52 somewhere. Guaranteed some of these will see flight one day.

[trixigt2]

@kozarac5 Stored out in the open? Great! Hope they won't fall apart when used lol..

[NickB1967]

@trixigt2: You obviously have never been to the Mojave desert. Things stay well preserved in the dry climate. Surely the Swedes have their boneyard?