Aircraft Graveyared

Pictures from the Aircraft Graveyard in Tuscon, Arizona. Set to the music of The Doors - "The End".

I did not take the photos but if any knows who did, let me know.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Aircraft
• Graveyard
• Arizona

[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.

[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...!!!!

[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

[DoctorTranIsBack]

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

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.