I was watching the Ait news this evening when it was reported that a Airline had added another boeing aircraft to it fleet. This got me curious about the idea of buying a private jet. Lot of questions started to pop out of my mimd such as: how much does a plane cost? How long does a plane lasts? Of course I have to google for the answers. But wat I found really intrigued me. I bet most of us nairalanders never thought about some of the things am learning so far. I can't share everythings all at once; let me just start from one after the other. Pls click this link and learn some facts in the aviation world! The largest “plane
graveyard” in the world!
This is the Davis-Monthan
Air Force Base, commonly
known as The Boneyard,
where the 309th Aerospace
Maintenance and
Regeneration Group (AMARG)
takes care of disused
warplanes and fighter jets.
It is home to everything from
enormous cargo planes to
bombers, Hercules
freighters, A10 Thunderbolts
and the F-14 Tomcat fighters
made famous in Top Gun.
“As long as there are
aircraft flying, military and
commercial aircraft
boneyards will always be
necessary to keep other
planes in the air,” aviation
author Nick Veronico, who
has visited Davis-Monthan
told the BBC.
“Each of the storage yards
typically performs a variety
of functions from storing
aircraft that are temporarily
out of service but expected
to return to the fleet, to
reclaiming useable parts
which are inspected,
overhauled, and then held
until needed by active
aircraft, to dismantling of the
aircraft carcasses.”
Many of the planes date back
to the Cold War or Vietnam,
including retired B-52
bombers capable of carrying
nuclear weapons.
They were stored with their
wings removed and placed
on the ground to prove to
Soviet satellites they had
been taken out of service.
The first retired B-52 was
brought back to life in The
Boneyard earlier this month,
taking off after upgrades to
return to duty.
The 53-year-old
Stratofortress was
nicknamed the “Ghost Rider”
and had been in storage at
the desert since 2008, CNN
reported.
AMARG arranges its aircraft
over almost 2,600 acres
(10.5 sq km) of desert in the
city of Tucson, surrounded
by houses and criss-
crossed by roads.
Some of the planes have
noses or wings missing,
surrounded by removed
parts being salvaged by
workers to be sent out to air
bases across the world as
spares.
Others are wrapped up
almost ready to go, being
kept as close to working
order as possible in case
they are needed in a new
mission.
When they arrive, they must
be washed, their fuel tanks
drained and cleaned,
ammunition and ejector seats
removed and ducts sealed
before they are covered
back up.
AMARG was established at
Davis-Monthan to store
planes in 1946 after the end
of the Second World War,
chosen for Tucson’s low
humidity, infrequent rainfall,
high altitude and hard
alkaline soil.
It has been the atmospheric
backdrop for several films,
television series and music
videos, most recently
Transformers: Revenge of
the Fallen.www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/worlds-largest-plane-graveyard-of-us-military-fighters-in-desert-can-now-be-explored-online-10077079.html

Wow! and our airforce would keep using theirs till it give up the ghost with many life lost! Africa!.

@lalasticlacla good morning

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Wow! Truely educating.

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Nutase:
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Normal BLACK HUMAN thinking.
What else do I expect from u.....?

Am I surprised...?
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nice

BusinessHub1:
Wow! and our airforce would keep using theirs till it give up the ghost with many life lost! Africa!.

@lalasticlacla good morning

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Nutase:
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