Dem Bones

[Fablon biff chit]

Davis Monthan (US) Air Force Base, Nevada

On google earth:32 09 26.72 N 110 50 37.64 W elevation 1747 ft

Amazing, Apparently it cost 29 billion $!

 

[SirSaltyHelmet]

Flew over the 'Bone Yard' at Davis Montham in a Merlin back in 2004, awesome sight. They have a mega huge guillotine to take the wings off B-52s

 

[MrMasher]

u can see some planes in bits after they have met mr guillotine!
unreal place though isnt it? amazing how many aircraft are there.
we should nip over, really, in an LDV (with toolkit!) and get us some spares!!
managed to find area 51 in nevada too.
pretty good the google earth, just a shame that you cant zoom in far enough.

 

[Fablon biff chit]

unreal place though isnt it? amazing how many aircraft are there.

More than our whole air force?

They are stored there (If I recall correctly) because the climate means they won't rust.

 

[shoutingwind]

all those planes in bits is so sad....

 

[Fablon biff chit]

Here is a google Earth link... win zip needed.

 

[Weebl]

I had a wander around AMARC at Davis Monthan on a trail. (well, say wander, you take a coach the place is so massive)

From memory they had more aircraft there in storage (IE not being chopped up, able to be put back into flight condition fairly rapidly) than the Air Force has in total, including our stored ones.

They had a row of Phantoms that you could not see the end of, must have been over 50 just in that row.

Made an interesting, if a little geeky, day out.

 

[tonka]

I did that tour last time i was out there. and you only get to see a fraction of what is in that bone yard! we spotted a tonka or what was left of it. those phantoms are put to good use as flying targets for missile tests.
we could do that with jags now couldnt we? DT_Xtremez_31:

 

[Fablon biff chit]

For those without google earth...

 

[Tashy_Man]

I did the tour in 2004.....here's a few piccies that let you get a feel for the place....

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Crack on...........DT_Xtremez_09:

 

[Seymour Tw@tt]

For those of you who get the chance to go to Russia, try to see Monino. It's the Russian Air Forces museum. It has an example of every Russian and Soviet aircraft built, including the TU 144 "concordski".

Sukhoi T-4 "Sotka"

Su-25 "Frogfoot" attack aircraft & Tu-144 supersonic airliner

Tupolev Tu-95 "Bear"

Yak-38 "Forger", Lavochkin La-250A "Anakonda", Lavochkin La-15 "Fantail"

Ilyushin Il-10

DT_Xtremez_19:

 

[Seymour Tw@tt]

Some better ones at Monino:

Smashing place, not far outside Moscow either...


DT_Xtremez_28:

 

[FOMz]

Beats the RAF, which is uber quick to sell them off or break them up.

 

[Fablon biff chit]

Did you see any Hind D's? They are seriously ugly, they even look like killing machines rather than helicopters. Cool

 

[Seymour Tw@tt]

They had Hind A's as well as other variants - I think they look fanbloodytastic.

The Sovs have always made superb helicopters, and even now the Kamov Alligator and Black Shark attack helos are just something else...

DT_Xtremez_17:

 

[Seymour Tw@tt]

Couldn't resist another couple of pics:

Hind A:

Hind D:

... and the Ekranoplan sea-skimming Caspian Sea Monster:

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[Fablon biff chit]

How many $$$'s are sat there?

 

[Ex-Stacker]

I must have been there at the same time as TM in 2004, & I agree that it is a sight to behold. i also had to go to Phoenix on a D-state run, and there is what looks like a civvy equivalent of the boneyard on the way there.