Aircraft Boneyrd

[Willy McCoy]

http://www.dhc-2.com/Monthan_Memories.html
A cool link to some 1960s - 80s pictures from the Davis Montham AFB. Go to the home page and there are a lot of other really nice photos of different aircraft too.

 

[rich]

That is brilliant, thank-you very much!

 

[jack aranda]

Thank you! I've wanted to visit the 'boneyard' for years. I never seem to find time when it is cool enough to enjoy the trek into the desert. These pics are great!

 

[sgbailey2002]

The nearby Pima Air Museum is worth a visit as well, not only for the large collection of aircraft, but for the more than 20 painted A-2's on display.

SGB

 

[Silver Dollar]

All I need is a truck and someone to help me lift. I'd love to go through that yard.

 

[Peter Graham]

Thanks Kevin, great link. Makes me a bit sad though that all those beautiful aircraft are gone forever.

 

[Willy McCoy]

I really liked the Indian orange paint they applied to the stratojet in the third picture. The SR-71 silhouettes and the Systems Command zap on the nose. I found an original Systems Command zap just like that one on eBay and put it on the hood of my daily driver. There is another boneyard in Grey Bull Wyoming that still has a lot of these airframes. I find it odd that an American citizen cannot purchase surplus aircraft we paid for. Hell, I can't even get manufacturers contract information from Wright Patterson Aero-Medical Lab on nylon flight jackets that have been obsolete for over 50 years. I think they forget who signs their paychecks.

 

[Willy McCoy]

This is a verry cool close up of the Stratojet.

 

[fraazierjo]

Been there a couple of times. The collection of A2's, B3's and flight gear rivals the Air Force Museum in Ohio. I wanted to take them home with me!

 

[Silver Dollar]

That's got to be one heck of a collection. Do they have pictures of them on the internet? I'd love to see them.

 

[sgbailey2002]

That's got to be one heck of a collection. Do they have pictures of them on the internet? I'd love to see them.

I have photos of most all the painted A-2's, and have 12 of the best posted in the photo section at the 20th Century forum. There are some real nice A-2's at the Pima Air Museum.

SGB

 

[MikeyB-17]

That's a fantastic site-what drives me nuts is that all this was there to see years ago, and now it's all gone. Would have killed to have been able to do what those guys did. I love this stuff, I have a couple of books about the desert boneyards, and even now I'd love to go to one of them, even though you only get a bus tour these days. I've spent a fair amount of time on Google maps and Live Local looking at these places, and the Pima Air Museum-you can 'drive' along all the adjacent roads in Google.

 

[rich]

Mike, can you recommend a book on boneyards? The Best Years of Our Lives is as close as I've ever got...........

 

[Andrew]

I totally agree with you Mikey, if only.

Not a boneyard tale as such but I clearly remember as a kid sized passenger, must have been the late sixties we often passed by a car junkyard in Melbourne that had visible from the road a DC-3 and a Mustang amongst the car wrecks.

 

[Silver Dollar]

Thanks SGB. I'll go over there and take a look.

 

[bfrench]

That's got to be one heck of a collection. Do they have pictures of them on the internet? I'd love to see them.

I have photos of most all the painted A-2's, and have 12 of the best posted in the photo section at the 20th Century forum. There are some real nice A-2's at the Pima Air Museum.

SGB

Hi, SGB,

What's the url for the 20th?

Bill French

 

[sgbailey2002]

That's got to be one heck of a collection. Do they have pictures of them on the internet? I'd love to see them.

I have photos of most all the painted A-2's, and have 12 of the best posted in the photo section at the 20th Century forum. There are some real nice A-2's at the Pima Air Museum.

SGB

Hi, SGB,

What's the url for the 20th?

Bill French

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheClassic20th/

In a photo folder titled "Original A-2 Art".

Skip

 

[MikeyB-17]

Mike, can you recommend a book on boneyards? The Best Years of Our Lives is as close as I've ever got...........

The best one I have is '50 Years of the Desert Boneyard' by Philip D. Chinnery. I have a couple of others, just thin paperback jobs, which I can't put my hand on right now, but the Chinnery one is the best I have. There may be better ones out there.

 

[rich]

Thanks Mike - I'll take a look.