davismonthanairforcebase

Aerial view of the Tucson, Arizona, area, with a focus on a giant airplane "boneyard" of nearly 4,400 aircraft, the world's largest such aircraft graveyard, on a 2,600-acre site at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. Boneyards are either kept for storage with s

from The Library of Congress

• clive422 said:

  Nice shot. There's something in the back of my head telling me about 'verification' of force reduction following signing some treaties. Areas like this could be photographed by satellite and some poor soul would then have to count the individual aircraft!
  Nice shot.

• Chuck Walla said:

  Congressional Reseach Service report: "...Under START, heavy bombers were eliminated by having the tail section cut off of the fuselage at a location that obviously was not an assembly joint; having the wings separated from the fuselage at any location by any method; and having the remainder of the fuselage cut into two pieces, with the cut occurring in the area where the wings were attached to the fuselage, but at a location obviously not an assembly joint."
  
  Carol Highsmith, and her significant other, are wonderful.

• swanq said:

  Detailed information about the Boneyard [ 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group ] available at
  - www.airplaneboneyards.com/davis-monthan-afb-amarg-airplan...
  - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/309th_Aerospace_Maintenance_and_Reg...