Tucson Wasted Birds

Sitting in the desert, too many planes i would take, iff they would only give them away.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Flying
• jets
• aircraft
• graveyard
• yuma
• mooney

[azpilot]

The music was done by the audio swap button on youtube, I'm sorry I do not know the name of the track or artist. If you really like it, you can search through youtubes audio swap files :)

[bassnutter]

Was that a Blackbird sr 71 in this video?

Round about 3:06 ?

[azpilot]

Why yes it was :)

[dynagravitomagnetic]

there is an operational military jet for sale. It will cost about five hundred thousand dollars and that is really cheap. The engine alone cost the gov. almost a mil. It takes about a thousand gallons of Jet-A fuel to take off, circle a few times and land. Jet-A is about seven dollars a gallon right now. Hey, look at the bright side. You could back your toyota up to one of these babies and sit on your tailgate with a bag of chips and a sprite and just admire it for free.

[deezynar]

Thanks azpilot!

Let me give a bit of info, the video was shot at 3 different places.

The well cared for planes, the flight suit, etc. are at Pima Air & Space Museum, which has a good collection.

The mothballed planes are in the Aerospace Maintenance And Regeneration Group facility at Davis-Monthan AFB.

The flying planes are from an airshow at the base.

The museum is just south of the AFB. I hear they give a tour of AMARG once a week but the museum is civilian and AMARG is military.

[TheMANDING0]

Let me have one PLEASE!!! just ONE!!!

[JustPlanebored]

Looks like a Fairey Gannet. Nice video BTW. Sad to see the planes this way.

[skyraiderjet]

@azpilot What was the name of the plane at 2:40? Looks like it might have contra-rotating props.

[AvengerBB1]

Pima Air and Space museum for the win!.. It looks a lot different today as they have gotten some pretty massive donations and have done an excellent job of cleaning up and restoring a good number of these aircraft.

[datafreak667]

in order for them to give any plane away it must first be flight worthy by faa standards second compensation must be given for the money they would have got for the scrap metal and 3 you gotta know a guy

[XiaoDanDragon]

That's a waste of good planes

[HuskerSeaofRed]

They would bring a few extra bucks on Craiglist.

[teebosaurusyou]

the sr-71 is also in the background at 1:11

[jay4201203461003]

We have a sr71???? Sick

[bybuttscppickel]

nothing is fast until you get into the cockpit of an sr 71 blackbird going over 2,500 mph at high altitude.my dream