Life Inside US World Largest Aircraft Boneyard Scrapping Billion $ of Plane
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...who doesn't love 'bone yard' videos? Could watch for hours. THX!
When I was a kid, my grandfather's house was near an old "boneyard." It was full of ol WW2 and Korean War vintage aircraft. My friends and I used to sneak in and play Star Wars and Buck Rogers in the old planes. My favorite was an old B-29, which had these long tunnels you had to crawl through to get from the front to the back, I could pretend to be Luke Skywalker in the tail gun, while the kid playing Han Solo would sit in front, and we could yell at each other like in the movie. This boneyard was full of rattlesnakes, tarantulas, roadrunners, and brown recluse spiders, but it was more fun than a day at Disneyland.
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I wanna go to a boneyard i wanna feel that old ww2 aircraft exspierience like b29 b17 and bf 109 mustangs spitfires Douglas Skytrain boeing 377 Stratocruiser or a b36 everything
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Nice video. One small correction at the 14:24 mark, the heritage flight includes an F-86 Sabre, not a F-68 Sabre.
Yep I spotted that too 😁👍
Good catch, I caught that too.
I'd love to spend a few days walking around this site.the sheer scale of the operation is amazing.
Thank you for posting.
Cool video but the B-52A and B-36 are actually across the street at the Pima Air Museum. It’s well worth seeing.
I absolutely love seeing the different eras flying together. What a sight!
Amazing to see the generations of amazing aircraft !
A kind of old age home visit. Superb memorial service through this amazing vid
drive past this all the time. Its amazing to see!
I went to grad school Univ. of AZ in Tucson, AZ 1984-87. I loved driving by the boneyard and visiting the Pima Air Museum next door. I used to take my 5 year old son there on weekends; HE LOVED IT!!!!🥰🥰🥰🥰
Yiasou Mark!
The symmetry in which the aircraft are parked from an aerial view is awesome. I love this. I like how the history of each plane is kept as a record. Each plane has a tale to tell and we can all learn from their flights on what went right or wrong for future planes. The fact the retiring aircraft has a ceremony is great to see. If those planes could talk, the tales they could tell! Thanks for uploading the video. 😃🏴
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Good video I love military usa aircraft as I've been to Mildenhall Air show in the uk 🇬🇧 many times seeing U.S.A.F planes old and modern & new.🥰
They even have a rare B-58 "Hustler" which they keep at the Pima Air Museum to protect it. The B-58 was America's 1st supersonic bomber🥰🥰🥰
Put quite a few planes here myself. Its sad, but at the same time really cool. Lots of history in that yard.
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Loved every minute of the video.
Cool that the C-5 landing while you were talking about the runway was at Westover Air Reserve Base in Chicopee, MA. I just retired from the Fire Department on the base this past August.
Pretty cool. It’s F86 Sabre
My Dad was stationed at Davis-Monthan AFB and we lived close by. I used to visit the Air Policeman at the east gate when I was a boy around 1966. Then I served in the Air Force, but at Fairchild AFB in Spokane Washington. The video has one thing wrong, the B-52 A and the B-36 are at the Pima Air Museum on east Valencia Road south of Davis-Monthan
Correct. Closely associated but very different organizations.
When I lived in Tucson, had many friends stationed at Davis-Monthan who talked about the bone yards history.
Thanks a lot, mentor
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Doubt there's a ceremony for every aircraft but even if it's a quarter of the time it's good to see the equipment is respected for the most part.
Can say for a fact most just fly off like any other sortie.
I was stationed at DMAFB in 1992. I worked at AMARC (now AMARG) for 2 years. I also lived off of Irvington and Houghton, across the street from AMARG from 1998-2012
These planes provide a lot of the spare parts to keep operational planes flying. They are mostly high hour airframes that are too costly to keep flying.
Thanks for answering my quriousity
Nice informative video. Thank you very much for putting this on KZhead!
Very good video, thanks for sharing. Watching from Brazil.
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I moved to AZ 4 years ago and have been meaning to go here since. Planned it out a couple years ago, then COVID cancelled the tours.
This brings back a memory from my childhood. I was living on NAS fallon as a kid and i remember always passing a decommissioned A4 that was always just sitting there. One day, we went out and saw what they do with it. They sprayed JP? (Whatever fuel it used) all over the ground and lit it on fire so the ground crew could practice crash rescue / firefighting. I was horrified. I wanted that plane so bad lol.
outstanding to remember past and present
There must be some rare planes there hopefully some end up in museums.Would love to walk around this facility it would be a dream come true and to see the awesome B36 incredible.👏👏👏🇬🇧🇺🇸
The B36 is just across the street from the base at the Pima Air and Space museum. Its a must see place.
@@gordonlindsay9205 many thanks for your reply I'm in the UK so I can only dream about it😔🙏
fanatstic vid i think i must have every book on AMARC
Now that's a place I would like to work at
Great movie i have really enjoyed!
I could love this bone aircraft yard right now in my lifetime. Than some car yards. Rattle Snakes and Scorpions too.
F 68 ??? NO such thing ! My dad was in the Korean War . It's F-86 Sabre .
From Tucson originally. Actually worked on the facility twice working in Tucson and passed by it many times. Very, very impressive.
I had a c-5a c141 pilot in the family just passed away rest in peace Conover. I truly miss his stories he's flown a few Birds into that location to be retired.
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It's nice to see these older aircraft are preserved and are ready to be reused 🇺🇲 💪
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$550 per 5 gallon bucket. Uncle Sam is getting bent over for sure! That bucket better have real platinum flakes in it. 🙄
Retired AF here. One of my bucket list items is to go to the boneyard.
Yes the video is cool but nothing to compare seeing this facility in person….
Mm aux avions..on a emménagé un cimetière digne de leurs rangs et de leurs services rendus à la nation..god bless.. Planes and other air Craft
Amazing👍
Can you fly a drone there? Because this would make superb drone footage!
Bi it's military airspace
You can arrange for overflights over AMARG, starting from Tucson e.g. That is a true thrill!
@@pjotrtje0NL That sounds like it would be the most fun I could have with my clothes on! LOL
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F-86, not F-68 Sabre!
The Only DisneyLand for me anyway. Would Love to spend the weekend there just walking around.
Beautifull power full u .s.a.
A lot of aircraft Will be put back into use most of them just go there for storage due to the climate is perfect for that. Specially the expensive ones they will be put back into service at sometime in point when the US arsenal needs them. And the older ones are used for spare parts
*F-86 Sabre... NOT F-68 - **14:24*
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I plan to visit the boneyard. I want to see if any C5 galaxies I worked on are there. And C141 also.
There is no "F-68 Sabre", that fighter is actually the F-86 Sabre.
Caught that too. 14:25 of the vid.
That is one of that places that turned B-24's into beer cans, bummer
C130J models already being placed here for storage?
Sad to see F-14 Tomcats, A-10’s and B-52’s there 💔
There are no F-14s there, all the F-14s were destroyed
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I was a firefighter there back in the 80's. Back then they were spinning up the old F-100's to be target drones. We had to stand by for the pickle engine and green engine runs. There were tons of B-52's out there and the homeless would sneak in to crash in them during the winter. Delta also use to go out there for training. I did see a P-38 and the remains of a B-29 way out in the boneyard. I miss just driving around in there looking at all the old birds. I really miss thous days
As a Brazilian, I say that it seems like a sarcasm from the United States to see all these fighters and all these planes in a cemetery and many of these planes are just stored, many of these planes in the cemetery are far superior to the Brazilian air force planes, in this country you can count on our fingers how many fighters there are here and they will laugh, we have very few air bases, our country is too rich in many aspects but our armed forces are dismantled
Hi, it is a pity to see all these magnificent machines idle.
Think of them as 20 year old Chevys with 300,000 miles on the odometer.
I love planes so much that those in the boneyard look alive and sad
If ("IF") all those planes could talk, every one of them would say "How I wish I could still fly!" Could any of them, especially the older ones, be pulled out of storage, restored, and recertified to fly?
With enough money, anything is possible.
Only certain examples are pulled from the Boneyard, such as the two BUFFs, and some naval types are usually pulled from storage, and then they get reconditioned for service, once again, otherwise the aircraft that get placed into storage, never return, because of age, and used up flight hours.
Older fighter jets are regularly pulled out, returned to flying status (albeit remotely controlled) and used as aerial targets for weapons training. I believe most of the F-4 Phantoms met this fate and a good few years ago they switched to destroying the older F-16A's once they ran out of Phantoms.
F-68 saber ah yes
Such places are heaven for reptiles.
I used to work next door for the Federal Government and a fellow employee once gave me a tour of the facility and I got to see the Red Mig 15 that was stored there.....
Nice
I would love to build a house inside a C5 galaxy.. people will pass and look twice then 🤯
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Which seems paradoxical to me is: for a plane to be able to make it's final flight to the boneyard, must be legally airworthy, so essentially they are decommissioning airworthy aircrafts.
most are still good flying shape. If certain type is needed, it can be ready for use quickly.
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Some of those planes are at the Pima air and space museum like that b-52a and b-36
I was lucky enough back in late 90's to get a pass for a day to crawl through as many B-52s' as I felt like in the hot summer sun. Amazing aircraft, and such a shame they had to chop up nearly all of them to follow a START or SALT treaty agreement long ago. ALL should have been kept as 'gatekeepers' at any airport or air base in the country instead.
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грустное зрелище от кладбища железных и грозных птиц, но понравилось отдание чести "железу" перед списанием на слом
тут нет никакого списания на лом/слом, тут просто хранение ибо в ролике видно что технику подготавливают к этому хранению а ломают ту технику которая уже довольно долго стоит и это то же видно
@@AEV_live ты не весь ролик смотрел, и не пиши мне больше глупостей
@@d.b.q.p.1540 как раз весь ролик и посмотрел и там видно что та техника которая только пришла на эту свалку стоит вся подготовленная для хранения а старая которая стоит много лет то ее разбирают со временем.
Wow amazing wow
God bless all our men and woman in all armed forces. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
sadly unlike WWII when we had months if not years to build or repair damaged aircraft, if we ever get into a situation where we need these aircraft again we probably won't have time to get them airworthy again.
Or the money. Sadly we are bankrupt.
Deberían presentar también en idioma latino. They should also present in Latin language.
the jet i worked on is currently being retired to the boneyard, prematurely at that. the most capable air refueling tanker, the KC-10 is being retired. it's sad to see.
Yeah - probably the best refueler ever however I read that the maintenance cost are skyrocketing on this aircraft. I think that was the reason why it has been replaced.
I didnt knew this place exsisted before the movie " 6 Underground "
Very good vídeo!!!
F 86 Sabre
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is this open to the public at certain times
After WW2 my Dad was Discharged from the Navy Hohavy airbase while going back to boston on a train he said Planes linedup wing to wing all along the desert for miles andhours on end no Choppers just planes no jets all props what a site
The world’s largest aircraft is the IL-76.a Russian plane with only 3 left .
It’s truly amazing how much money is wasted by retiring good aircraft.
I wonder how much that refurbishment cost?! I'm a 35 year veteran Commercial Truck Owner Operator and I would like to buy and refurbish a 747 from a boneyard and become a global air-cargo aircraft owner operator.
not so much scrapping as recycling. thats the point.
...and recycling also includes converting some of these birds into flying unmanned aerial targets...used to work on Block 30 F-16Cs and Ds....from what I have been able to find out, a lot of those birds were converted to flying targets and met their ends over the Atlantic missle range or whatever it is they call it....sad end to a great bunch of "birds" .........
@@leonardvarmette7986 Like F4s before it. Is what it is.
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The government needs to keep these jets and other military aircraft in working order at all times
I'm just curious as to why you think the US government should do that?
Why? We have plenty of aircraft.
Pressurized aircraft eventually time out due to cracking. Most of these aircraft are severely outdated or at the very end of their lifecycle. Everything eventually has an end of life.
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In some poor countries, the plane remains in service until it crashes for any reason