Stories From the Boneyard 

DanQuoLives stop lying

www.c-130.net/aircraft-database/C-130/airframe-profile/6578/

@@autobahnman6869 owned

😂😂get wrecked

@ZOE SMITH hurr durr planes never fly

same goes for that B-57

They kind of are. I would love to go see that place. Its actually not far from me.

agreed

I'd love to see em down here in Louisiana at the Global Power Museum @ Barksdale AFB. We've got an SR71 out there, a B17, a B24, a P51 Mustang, different B52 variations and a bunch of other planes. I love going there and walking amongst those giants.

and the green one with 5 kills on the intake near the end

billsplibbins god I would love to visit that place some day

Crispay A-10 me too

Are there F14s?

security police. mercy, haven't heard that term for ever. I was one myself

Noned

It's on display at the Airforce museum in Dayton Ohio

F4C I believe is on display in Dayton museum..

The one in the film is an F-4E, and is not a MiG killer at all. The markings applied to the vari-ramp are in honor of Gen Ritchies' victories, as he flew that plane during the 1997 air show season.

@Guy Valentine Thanks for your service mate. In the early 90's I was an Airframe mechanic then promoted to Airframe Fitter tech. grade 12, IAF. Got to work a lot on 69th Hammers Sqd. I still miss the Phantoms.

It certainly belongs to a Museum indeed, what a shame.

Because the planes who had to be left to die, and scrapped And their stories from the past

The Confused Hans Some are scrapped for parts. Like F/A-18’s, they’re being cannibalized until The USMC replaces their arsenal with the new F-35B/C. Most are going to be sold to our allies overseas. Follow the Military Industrial Complex, and our allies interests. Canada might be able to purchase some airframes, along with Saudi Arabia, Australia, and several other countries. Its the money that determines an Aircrafts Life Span.

@@koolhans5926 all these planes are not being scrapped. Some are completely flyable. They only store them here, because Tucson desert is the best environment to store them in. Some of these planes are just waiting to be put back in service.

TLS Rob The US doesn’t really sell its military planes all that often.

Wouldn't it be something to see that F100 take to the skies one more time? Peace, John

No they are NOT rotting at all = purpose of where they are today, just waiting for their next orders 1) as a doner or 2) as a referb and fly again - so shed NO tears

or they're scrapped and get used on another plane so again it's all good

I’ll just borrow that a10 thanks see ya

The A-10s were brought out of retirement for the first gulf war, so this might be their last stop. I think there's an A-10 II model out, too.

*BRRRRRRRRRT*

If you like that story, check out the story of "The Kee Bird, Frozen in time". Warning: it's a heartbreaker.

The quality of turboprop based is insane

You wouldn't?

Seth Crafton *hawk‘s

Its just "resting" chances are it will fly again.

i know right there such cool aircraft

CougerFilms an*

+Aiden Smith : You'll find out pretty soon it's a full time job 24/7 with NO PAY and NO UNIFORM 😨

its probably an A model, or just Cs that are not needed at national guard bases. Dont worry, they are not going anywhere.

Their Ground Crews as well. And we loved them , even if at times with some of the Old Gal's it was a Hate / Love relationship. Some of the old F-4's were simply Pig's for maintenance , with a capital P, I, & G . LoL :-) But, I tell you what . I miss hearing those twin G.E. JP-79 engines roar to life and kick in After Burner on Roll-Out as they took off. Nothing like it. Not even the F-15 could compare. Sure, it could fly up faster, higher , farther , but the old Phantom's had Style, Character , & Class. Nothing like that around these days . A bit depressing for an old Avionics' Tech . But , life goes on , as always. As The Maker wills it , so it shall be. :-) TSS

Dominick Rankin me too

Was stationed at Elmendorf 77-79 with 3 sets of barracks just off to one side of one of the run ways. You could see the F-4E's coming from about 15-20 miles because they smoked so much. Later, they got improved engines which didn't smoke like they had.The F-15 was just coming into service, with those who had 'em, raving how bad ass they were. The 43rd & 18th TFS's went to their first Red Flag. where the Eagle was suppose to kick ass & take names. Didn'twork out that way. Was into photographing/trading slides of military aircraft at the time and got a lot of 18th & 43rd birds with F-15 silhouette "kills". There were T-33's also there being used so pilots could get some flight time in....cheaper for a T-33 to be flying gas wise than an F-4. Also used to test the DEW radar sites/reaction times. Some pilots got tired of being easy targets for the F-4's and decided to do something about it. DEW radar would ping the T-33 and the scramble was on. The T-33 pilots KNEW how quick the F-4 could respond, so a couple of minutes before they showed up, they went low & slow to the ground where the DEW & F-4 radar couldn't see them. Remember, this was before look down, shoot down radar really available. F-4's be looking for the T-33 who would suddenly pop up behind 'em and say tac a tac a tac, etc. signifying that the F-4 was "killed". Think I photographed 3 T-33's with such "kills" which I posted at least one of, along with some of the 43rd & 18th's F-4's on Flickr. Also got "kills" photographed when they went to Maple Flag exercises in Canada.I think the ONLY aircraft still in the A.F. that are flying when I was in (71-81), are KC-135's, B-52's and C-130's. The Kansas ANG EB-57's used to come in for exercises on a regular basis, then there was NASA's WB-57....with a HUGE wing. And lots of Navy P-3's. The good thing about DM AFB, is they lend all sorts of aircraft to the Pima County Air Museum. If you get a change, GO! It's well worth the trip.

Those fighters with MIG kills deserve to be preserved.

Thank you for the stories. My Father flew mail with Lindbergh, and use to laugh telling me that Charles crashed just about every thing he flew. I worked for quite a few years, and retired (disabled, why I could not be a pilot, nerve problems), from Martin Marietta, as my Father retired from the Skunk place. I got to talk to a lot of the pilots, and was always fascinated y the thing they just took in stride, but were so interesting. I got to ride in a F-111, F-4, F-15, and the MIG 21 and 29. What the USSR birds lacked in finesse, they made up for in brute strength. We also got to ride in a few prototypes, and as a kid I got to see the Valkyrie fly. Thank you again for posting this. Smiles.

U wot m8? Even in the air force u cant just go in there

Visit the Pima Air Museum. They run tours to AMARC.

Armand LANOIRE A lot of people walk around the 18 acres at the Pima Air Museum on the same property, but if you arent up to it, you can pay $6 to take a tram ride around the property. They also have some planes in hangers you can walk around . awesome!!!!

Seattle has the Boeing museum of flight that is also worth a visit. They have the SR-71 Blackbird, the amazing F1 engine of the Saturn V and more. I got to walk on the concord as well.

Seattle is shit

Neither F4's or F14's were fighters. They were interceptors and couldn't dogfight for shit.

Sideslip no you're wrong, they were quite versatile planes, expecially f14. Also, Top Gun is not only a movie.

Tomcats are so maneuverable certainly more than you think sideslip, very good aircraft imo (I'm British too so no bias)

Slideslip. The A models were crap. But the D models could splash anything.

More so the F14 than the F4, at least the F4 had the power to play. The F14 was lucky to get out of its own way.

It'd be nice if we could still do that..

2k for a plane

@@zackarygallant6564 to be fair, that's about 20k today, but still cheap

Cool!

I was just looking on Sat maps there was 2 A-10's at the base don't know why they would get rid of these wonderful tank killers

@Brian Smith If I remember there were some B-25's but I never went thru the whole yard.

I was based there from 1965 - 1970 with the 390 SMW (the Missile Bunch) . AMARG (renamed MASDC) is still there , just moved the fences south to build on base housing where the 800+ B-47s were parked facing Golf Links Road. My Wife and I had an apartment on Golf Links Road , and every morning , I'd step outside and look at all that shiny aluminum. Likewise , the Intake point Ramp just to the west of the old main gate has been built over for new construction .

@@Pennst44 I wanna buy one of these planes, they're beautiful

normende CCCC 1- Chevy rollin down the strip; airborne daddy on a one way trip! Stand up, hook up shuffle to the door...

Good eye...a very sweet looking early 60's Chevy half-ton fleetside pu truck.

Apache maybe?

I was there in the 90s as they were chopping them up for START treaty, sad.

How did he get back?

Nothing came up

Nothing came up

Kenneth the kid gamer 08 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Pawson

What your dads name

One of the most bizarre things to watch is that huge jet lumbering in on landings. Hats off Joe

There are no civilian aircraft at that facility. There ARE other storage facilities in Arizona that do have numerous civilian planes in storage and being parted out.

@@patprice2953 While strictly true, the Air Force did buy commercial 707's...which upon entering the inventory, became C-137's..., and as C-137's, were used as donors, much as the original poster described

The Air force bought over 50 used 707 s when the Airlines retired them. They were flown in , parked and used as parts sources for the C-135 and C-137s operated by the USAF . Their carcasses were picked over for years and the bones were finally scrapped in the 90's .

They have a policy there that they always send at least two people out to an aircraft. This is because years ago someone went out by himself and didn't come back for several hours. When they went looking for him they found him dead inside a plane after a rattlesnake bit him.

I went to DM for ABDR class.. Just take normal care as you would in a desert and you'll be fine. BTW Aircraft Battle Damage Repair classes are big fun. They send the best technicians (having varied experience helps you be one) and you get to hack holes in old aircraft then repair the damage using expedient methods where necessary.

Expedient methods? Does that mean duct tape and bondo?

IS THAT A SUPRA LMAOOOOOOOOOO

It's a f100 lol

Yup thats war thunder's f100d super sabre

_《Viper》 __5:18__ BRO IS THAT A SUPER SABRE?! HOLY HESH IT IS!_ Looks like a QF-100 Target plane from it's paint job.

_《Viper》__5:18__ BRO IS THAT A SUPER SABRE?! HOLY HESH IT IS!_ Airshow at Andrew AFB in the 70's. Got there early, drove around the runway with my Buddy in my MG. Found a derelict F-100 on it's belly off to the side. And my toolbox in the trunk. Like Christmas! My Buddy talked me outa trying to get past the gate with the Canopy tied to the trunk.

I drive several times a year out of my way to glimpse at the F4s myself.. Even visited and photographed the wreckage of two in the Coso mts of California which have pieces pretty well preserved in the Mohave desert.

edgu71eg It IS!!! Come on out!! ❤🙏🇺🇸🙏❤

@@brendaortiz-vh4fu ..my understanding is they are no longer open to the public..

George Salvesen Pima Air Museum?? I was just there in May.

George Salvesen oh, you might mean the bone yard. Sorry. Yeah, the public cant go in there, but the Air Museum has a LOT of great planes to see up close.

Randy did we leave any F4s in Thailand when we pulled out of Vietnam..

From the kill dates it would appear that the aircraft shown was flown by Charles DeBellevue. He was a WSO and the highest scoring American Ace

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Wait. Tyhhhee 2nd

*salutes*

Plural of "woman" is "women". God bless illiteracy!

@@Commentator541 based on the percentage of females in combat roles, "woman" is appropriate

Greetings from Pensacola Fl where the birds fly

Yeah, they take Hornets that are near the end of their service life, Refurbish them, strip all the un needed systems out and paint them blue. Of course they age quicker then regular use so they get sent to the bone yard to be parted out then scraped.

Its an old f18 that the angels used they now use super hornets

@@lachlanlandreth9069 idiot

The Blue Angels are NOT flying F-35s, and they're not planning on it any time soon either. They're currently getting ready to switch from the old Hornet to the Super Hornet. Maybe try doing some research before calling somebody else an idiot.

They watch RU-vid at 4am. Just like me :)

Not true they watch Ourtube

The f-16 is better than most planes at dogfighting because they are so agile. They are basically America’s gripen. Imagine if they made it stealth.

@@spingebill8551 Stealth isn't something you can retrofit onto an aircraft, the shape, intake design, materials, etc have to be picked from the start to achieve stealth. There is Have Glass V paint, which is radar absorbing paint, but that still doesn't bring the F-16's signature to anywhere near that of a stealth aircraft.

William Charles I’ve read the Canberra served as a launching point for the design of the U-2 after there was a version with lengthened wings.

A version of the B-57 was built for high altitude. Had very long wings. I saw them occasionally at Hill AFB in the early '60s.

They were also used in the early '60s for evaluating ground radar sites. Flown by the 4677th Defense System Evaluation Sqdn.

It deserves to be in a museum

They keep one of each type that has been processed through AMC as a "museum" display row. Was there two years ago. Would like to show up with a flatbed and get a toy...

better pull out your checkbook and start writing a multi billion dollar check lol

A lot of them will be put back into service. Heck, a B-52h that went into the boneyard in 2008 just came back into service recently.

Depends on the scale of the war I would imagine. In the event of a large scale war, it won't matter as they will be nuked. In something smaller weeks to months for some and a couple of years for others.

Daniel Dacey wait what the fuck,I don’t think the us government would let just anyone nuke the country,and why would anyone nuke that area anyway.

Being "at war" is a question of semantics. No, technically, we have not declared war on anyone since 1941. We HAVE been in a "state of war" since then, because that is defined as: a state of actual armed hostilities regardless of a formal declaration of war. Look it up in Merriam Webster Dictionary if you don't believe me. The US has been in a "state of war" for almost 90% of its existence. We are spending money on our military like we are constantly in a 'state of war," which is making us BROKE. Whether there was a formal declaration or not, or whether you want to sugar coat it, WE HAVE BEEN AT WAR with some nation or other for 220 of the 242 years this country has been a country. AS for the so called wars on drugs and terrorism, those are BS slogans made to spook simpleminded voters to keep pulling a lever in the voting booth regardless of how it effects them. You can't have a war against abstract ideals. Wars need a winner and loser. How do you win a war on drugs or terrorism. THERE WILL ALWAYS BE DRUGS AND TERRORISM.

@@flyinggoose1456 Matt, "war" is a technical term, and requires a declaration by congress. It doesn't mean your deployment was any less hostile, or that your friends may be any less damaged or missing...it's just a legal term. Salute!

Looks like an A-10.

Looks nothing like an A-10, probably an F16...

A Herky b̶i̶r̶d̶ house!

I visited the boneyard during a deployment not long after my Air Guard unit had converted from F-100's to A-10's. I had flown in two Super Sabres while in the guard and was able to find both of them in the boneyard. Sadly, most of the two seat F models like the ones I rode in were eventually converted into remote controlled pilotless drones and used for target practice. As such the two F-100's I flew in are probably sitting in pieces at the bottom of the ocean.

Coyotes are everywhere out here. I live 5 miles from the boneyard..

Yes, visitors to the Pima Air and Space Museum can take a guided bus tour through the Boneyard.

Oh lovely! So much want.

Arizona Public Media → FWIW: I was in Phoenix for a few weeks back in 1988. I got to 'see' D-M a couple of times, but NEVER had the opportunity to take an actual tour of the boneyard. Wish I could have, though....

You can't touch the planes.

What

Oh look, another fox ditto head who thinks Obama "weakened" our military. Seeing how we spend more on our military than the next 12 nations COMBINED, it might need a little "weakening" before we go broke. BTW, if you knew anything about the government you would know how much of an idiot you have to be to think the president "weakens" the military. Here is a hint genius, CONGRESS CONTROLS FUNDING!!!!

Relax Cheetah, the inept boy DID in fact weaken it. The active duty numbers were as low as pre WW2 and the Navy had even fewer ships.

@@bubbaclinton1105 yeah, you are a moron if you believe that tripe.

Oh look, another Obozo lover that thinks his shit dont stink. Yes the poser did weaken the military, and so much so, we were down in personnel and equipment, training was damn near nonexistent, and officers were given pinkslips before even graduating academy. He was the sorriest so called"president"this country ever endured. Thank god, that turd passed.

Howard Hayes → "SP2H"?