Nice HUGE US Aircraft Graveyards SCHWEET

B52 graveyard

Variety of aircraft

A bunch of A-10's and other Jets

Whats the huge black one in the left upper corner here? Its bigger then a B-52

Is that white one, one of those huge cargo planes(that look like a whale?)

Scroll around those maps.
The place is just huge and has a few 1000 if not 10000's of aircrafts of all forms and sizes just sitting there rusting away.

Goto love MS TerraServ.

I've been scrolling around for half an hour now and the further I got the more stuff I find.

How big is that place supposed to be? I'm up to at least 20km wide and 20km high and I'm still finding places with groups of jets and other aircraft parked.


[edit on 12-9-2004 by thematrix]

Great stuff matrix - thanks for sharing that.

wow, i panned around the map a little bit, that is just more than one can count! what made you search for that?

are all those planes there as a reserve or are they decomissioned? thata a hell of a lotta money sittin there!

I've driven past there before. Davis-Monthan AFB. That site was used to allow for the USSR to confirm the destruction of certain types of aircraft and ICBM's during the cold war. It was part of one of those treaties where each country agreed to down-size their arsenals. The planes and missiles would be put out in plain site, cleaved, and then left there for soviet sattelites to image. They did the same for us.

cool pics, thanks.

Also, I think the big black one is a 747.

Originally posted by viciouslyannihilated
are all those planes there as a reserve or are they decomissioned? thata a hell of a lotta money sittin there!

Decomisioned and I think they are used for spare parts too.
I think if they sell everything there for scrap metal, they can fill up half the national deficit !! :p (just kidding, selling the jets on black market will be more profitable :p)

I've been playing around with terraserv alot lately, they have some nice shots of NASA's launch pads and stuff like that too. The imagery mainly dates from before 2001 though, if you want to see a nice shot of the WTC, its in the famous places.

Check out the famous places link on the site.

I may be looking at the wrong aircraft here but if you mean the large black looking swept wing jet that has a KC-135 next to it and is in front of and facing two more KC-135's, then a couple of Hercules below a plane I can't identify and with a long white building after that, then that aircraft is definitely a B-52.

You can compare it with this;



And, if I might say so myself, I'm # hot at aircraft identification. Remember the Northrop YC-125?

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I�ve walked around inside the part that is open to the pubic, and they have A LOT of cool stuff there. There�s a bunch of one-offs and prototypes parked around for people to look at. They had a B-58 and an SR-71, and even had one of these:



Columbia XJL-1. One of two produced, just sitting out in the sun.

I agree with waynos, that airplane in the top-left looks like a B-52.

The builders and engineers and designers for that ugly bitch should be shot on site.

Originally posted by Murcielago
The builders and engineers and designers for that ugly bitch should be shot on site.

Excellent response!

OMG that is one ugly piece of work. That brings me to my next point... just say no to drugs. :-)

But on the issue of scraps... heck yes. There is a small fortune in scrap metal sitting there. Here is an interesting project for someone. Find out the rate for scrap metal and then find out how much a B52 weights. Figure the scrap value for one jet and then count the number of B52s in that pic.

Originally posted by Indy
Figure the scrap value for one jet and then count the number of B52s in that pic.

After more than fifty years the B-52 is still an effective and viable weapons platform. They won't be scrapping these aircraft for a long time. These really aren't graveyards, there more like cedar chests, mothballs, you know. The big black one is definitely a B-52.

Too bad Terraserver doesn't have a more recent image of the Roswell Industrial Air Center. There are a BUNCH of mothballed planes there now too.

Since 9-11 and the decline in air travel, they have put alot of them up there. Desert climate is a great place to store these planes. Low humidity helps them maintain them longer.

Here's an image from Terraserver. Unfortunately it's from 1997. You can still see a number of large planes to the west of the terminal though.

I don't know what the black triangle in the NW quad of this image is though?

I think those black area's are to conceal black aircraft from Satelite eyes.
I've noticed them on several locations, where places in front of specific hangars are black and some places with pitch black looking landing strips.

Black planes on black floors are nearly invisible.

Here is a link to a 'fan site' of AMARC - Davis-Monthan AFB.

www.amarcexperience.com...

That black one is almost definately a B52, the white ones look a bit like 707's. Damn, it would be mad to own that plot of land with all those planes and cruise around in them. Look at all those fighters!

We really dont need all that stuff, so we should sell most of it to buy more raptors!

I wish they would give me a few of them since they aren't using them.