It's cheaper to pull them from the Boneyard to put back in service than having a new one made. In the case of the B-1B, only 100 were made with the last one being made in 1988.
@@drew2626 Because the B1-B was only built to be an temporary stop gap in America's air force due to delays in the production of the B2 Stealth Bomber. They were originally going to stop production before 1980 when it was still just the B1-A but producing the B2 was taking longer than expected. The upcoming B21 is set to replace the B1-B completely and all remaining B1s are set to be decommissioned by 2036.
@@KingArthur13th B-1A was meant to replace all B-52s but the Soviets hated it so much, they pulled out the stops in activating traitors within the US to kill it. It was weird because it was still mandated for continued development after it was cancelled, some think so the Soviets could get the technical data and solutions for their Tu-160 copy. A young Senator from Delaware was tasked by the Soviets (who paid for much of his campaign and vote-rigging) with cheerleading the campaign against the B-1A from 1973-1977, when Carter finally cancelled it. His name was....well, figure it out.
Production line and tooling has been gone for decades. I was there for the rollout of B-1B #1 in 1984, since we were on the B-1B CTF at the time at Edwards AFB.
@@LRRPFco52 Very cool. I got to see one up close while giving a bid for a hangar upgrade. We were told not to take pictures of the planes. It was still really cool to see one up close.
@@edljnehan2811 At one time youw ould see row after row after row of B-52's followed by F-15 and now C-140's and some DC-3's. The Boneyard is not as big as it was as housing has been setup there and they put a large power substation there too.
@@howardhudson5475 and that's okay I guess because at least we do the right thing with these planes unlike Russia who just steals the parts And Trades them off for vodka or I would assume other illicit substances hahaha. If there is an Air Force One plane out there I would think that should go in a museum don't you think?
There are TWO Air Force Ones at the Pima Air and Space Museum across the other street. Along with an SR-71 Blackb... well, don't get me started. Just go visit.
It's like the top 5 most beautiful large-scale jets in the world. It's a one of a kind super sonic bomber that requires high security clearance to fly. Paying wouldn't be the only thing I'd do to just sit in the cockpit.
Every aircraft in the boneyard is in preservation. There are different levels of preservation. They're not just parked there and left to die. The ones that are able to be "brought back from the dead" are in a level of preservation that enables this to be done in a certain amount of time. It's not as incredible of a feat as you think it is.
Former B-1 maintainer here. I hated seeing my planes get sent to the boneyard. I remember sending that one there. I also remember when the one it's replacing blew up.
I flew an F-111G to the boneyard to Tucson in 1993 from Cannon AFB, NM. Pretty cool experience. Got a tour of the boneyard and saw an F-4E with PN tail flash. It was tail number 1200- same jet that had my name on it with 3rd Tactical Fighter Squadron at Clark AB, PI. On another side note, the cab driver that took us to our hotel was from a small town in upstate New York, Ilion, NY. My dad’s home town. Turns out the cab driver lived four houses down from my grandparents and grew up friends with dad.
This all a gimmick for the military industrial complex! Seriously. Look at the F-16, after 1 hour of flight time, it reqires 16 hours of maintenance time! That's for real! So one 4 hour flight takes that airplane off line for 2 1/2 days?! Nice job designers. Screwing American Taxpayers!
Honestly, if they have fabricated modern airframes in near airworthy condition. Its probably worth the work to engineer solutions and update a fleet to put them in a useful configuration. It just takes exceptionally skilled and knowledgeable engineers and mantainence professionals.
One of the reasons that they are not kept at operational standards is the cost to keep them at operational standards. Operational aircraft have maintenance schedules where parts are replaced needed or not. In a non operational status we save money by only replacing them once when an aircraft is brought back to operation. Instead of once every 90 days for ten years.
Commercial aircraft was stored there during covid when the number of flights being taken was low. It's a very important and highly used place. If you check it every year or two on Google Maps, you'll see new aircraft come in and old ones go away all the time.
It’s just money to them… our money, but they don’t care. California lost 24 billion supposed to go the homeless. I guess that’s why they are still on the street😳
It just so happens in the near future they will start pulling them from the bone Yard and fixing them back up but as they are doing it shit will hit the fan and boom boom boom everything up in smoke and flames
Former p3 mechanic here for the navy. The airframers had a wing from the boneyard shipped to us. The original wing failed inspection, i can't remember but i thought after so many hours of a detrimental part they'll just expire it so there's no surprises in the air
Definitely costs way less to take parts from an old plane that can't fly anymore than to fabricate brand new parts for planes that aren't built anymore.
is the bone yard not for obsolete planes that no longer is servbice but if theres a part they need for the plane that is being used or broken they can take it from a scrap plane from the boneyard and replace it i think thats why they call it the bone yard because they take parts from old planes from the boneyard if theres a part they need on the plane in service oviously not using the plane from the bone yard as the guiy said cost to much to restore it its always good for parts to take from
Some planes are kept in full preservation in case they need to be returned into service as a whole aircraft and not just meant to be taken for spare parts. There are several B-1s that are kept in preservation, this B-1 taken out for service is one of those.
Doesn't sound like a good idea to me. Who pays for the plane initially, then these costs to bring it out of dormancy? THAT'D BE MY TAX DOLLARS - SUCH A WASTE. Wish I didn't at taxes because then I would not complain
I live right next to Tinker, i see F5/T38s flying all the time and occasionally KC135s, AWACS, and RARELY B1s, i think ive only ever seen one fly out and that was 10 years ago, one saturday i saw 2 A 10s fly in
I'd bet that the restoration of this Lancelot B-1 is more than $15 million. What the fck is the Pentagon thinking 🤦♂️🤦♂️. Spending $15 million on a strategic bomber is nothing. B-1s are highly effective bombers, and every single airframe should be saved and restored back to flying (few can be in mothball storage).
Russia: Stores just about everything outside. Quickly resembles it for service with limited upgrades and sends it to fight. The US: Stores planes and boats outside, resembles it into as close to peak condition, upgrades it to fit the fleet. Because a single vehicle of that class got wrecked.
They scavenge parts off other B-1s in the boneyard. They might find a few new parts squirreled at bases where they used to be stationed like Ellsworth AFB. Only a small number were made so there's not truckloads of brand new parts. IIRC last one made was in 1988 so the newest plane is 36 years old. The B-1 program would be in a LOT better shape if Jimma Carter had not F'd up the program. That's why the B-52 will keep flying until its 100 years old.
@@LuvBorderCollies Yep this is the sole purpose of Davis Monthan, most planes there won't see the sky again, but many parts of them will. If you look at Google Maps, there's ~25 B1s there when the last image was taken.
Military went, we know you just retired and have settled into your new life, but your country needs you. You're being pressed back into service effective immediately, we're sending over personnel to pick you up.
“They create us as machines of war, use us until we retire, and send us to this graveyard. Every, single, day, I see one of our brothers get torn to shreds and left where he was standing. I am forced to return back to that, hell, of a place when one of my brothers crumbled and took his own life.” -Lancelot
Aircraft are reactivated on a regular basis at Davis-Monthan. This is not an unusual action. Additionally, all services use the Boneyard, not just the Air Force.
Your video is not necessary. The answer is a near open ended military budget request starting with the words, “We need”. Plus a list of companies with parts that over charge.
Of course Russia wouldn't understand this concept and even if they did too many of the parts they would need to accomplish this task most likely have already been stolen😢😅😅
So, 15 million is too high to fix one but they’ll spend an undisclosed amount on bringing one out of mothballs and install updated systems on it. Guarantee it cost more to bring Lancelot back.
Live right down the street. Question for you. What is the white stuff on the windows and other important things. I know what it’s for ! Buy what material and how is it applied and removed ?
There is no way restoring a boneyard craft is cheaper than 15 million. There has to be something erong with the math. By the time you get it ready and all the necessary updates and structure changes needed potentially you would exceed 15 million in no time. Something is off here. The exploded B1 had to be far worse off or the would have used lacelot for parts instead of restoring it.
Months and months of refurbishing. But how long would it take if you did the bare minimum, say you are in the middle of a war and need to crank out planes as fast as possible?
*The B1B has a 75,000-pound (34,000 kg) payload, which is the heaviest of any U.S. bomber. The B52 has payload up to 70,000 pounds (32,000 kg) of weapons. The idiots in the pentagon and politicians want to replace both with the B21 which only has an estimated payload capacity of 20,000 lbs (9,100 kg). However, other sources say the B-21 can carry up to 30,000-40,000 lbs.*
The B-1 should not be replaced by the B-21. The B-1 is highly effective. Can carry the heaviest payload as u mentioned, it's the cheapest to maintain, it can operate from a wider range of airfields compared to the other 2, it's also the fastest (just an upgrade to the new F-15 engine and it can supercruise). The B-1 could also conduct maritime missions, ocean reconnaissance/surveillance & maritime strike (targeting and engaging enemy vessels with anti-ship missiles). The B-21 should only replace the B-2.
I mean the car I grew up driving is over 32 years old. I went to buy a battery only to find it's not even listed in the parts books anymore and had to use a newer car with the same engine as a reference to buy parts.
Agreed, when I worked on the B1s we had a plane every shop on the flight line used for "can" parts. That thing had thousands missing. It took a special crew and over a year to put it back together. This is only 500 because most are pulled parts to protect and seal off everything and fill the systems with anti corrosives.
i can assume theres hunners of old planes to new planes that are there from ww1 2 and from the 80s 90s and till now i can just imagin that theres alot of tom cats and f16s and f4 phontoms there also wathogs and fa 18 hornets many more there
I love the fact that if the boneyard was a country it would have the third largest air force behind the United States Air Force and the United States army
What about the boneyard airplane boneyard there in Southern California they still are restoring those planes aren't they that were from the military and all that
It's cheaper to pull them from the Boneyard to put back in service than having a new one made. In the case of the B-1B, only 100 were made with the last one being made in 1988.
Why is there B-1B in boneyard anyway?
@@drew2626 Because the B1-B was only built to be an temporary stop gap in America's air force due to delays in the production of the B2 Stealth Bomber. They were originally going to stop production before 1980 when it was still just the B1-A but producing the B2 was taking longer than expected. The upcoming B21 is set to replace the B1-B completely and all remaining B1s are set to be decommissioned by 2036.
Budget savings
@@KingArthur13th that’s sad 😔 I’ve been in a B1-B at an air show, it’s a really cool bomber! Hella fast too
@@KingArthur13th B-1A was meant to replace all B-52s but the Soviets hated it so much, they pulled out the stops in activating traitors within the US to kill it. It was weird because it was still mandated for continued development after it was cancelled, some think so the Soviets could get the technical data and solutions for their Tu-160 copy. A young Senator from Delaware was tasked by the Soviets (who paid for much of his campaign and vote-rigging) with cheerleading the campaign against the B-1A from 1973-1977, when Carter finally cancelled it.
His name was....well, figure it out.
I know those mechanics fucking hated their lives for a few months 😂
Nah, I imagine it's like a normie buying a car from a junk lot specifically to build it up "new"
They were proud to get this aircraft back on flight status.
Not just for a few months. B1s are notoriously shit to work on whether they're pickled or not.
@@IhatedsigningupI can confirm that
@timf2279 I'm a mechanic and can assure you no we didn't
The dry air of the desert reduces corrosion. The logistics, repair and maintenance machine is enormous.
But they still "shrink wrap" them because of the dust storms. Without that, the airframes would literally get sandblasted.
Cheaper than restarting a production line.
Much😂😂😂
Production line and tooling has been gone for decades. I was there for the rollout of B-1B #1 in 1984, since we were on the B-1B CTF at the time at Edwards AFB.
@@LRRPFco52 Very cool.
I got to see one up close while giving a bid for a hangar upgrade.
We were told not to take pictures of the planes.
It was still really cool to see one up close.
@@shawnr771 The engineering on the landing gear alone is mind-boggling. There are some museums with them where you can walk around and touch them.
I live across the street from the Boneyard and the amount of planes that are there is amazing. There's even an old Air Force 1 plane there.
I would think that that plane belongs in the museum😮
@@edljnehan2811 At one time youw ould see row after row after row of B-52's followed by F-15 and now C-140's and some DC-3's. The Boneyard is not as big as it was as housing has been setup there and they put a large power substation there too.
@@howardhudson5475 and that's okay I guess because at least we do the right thing with these planes unlike Russia who just steals the parts And Trades them off for vodka or I would assume other illicit substances hahaha. If there is an Air Force One plane out there I would think that should go in a museum don't you think?
@@howardhudson5475 as long as it's military housing and not some other government crap if you know what I mean hahaha
There are TWO Air Force Ones at the Pima Air and Space Museum across the other street. Along with an SR-71 Blackb... well, don't get me started. Just go visit.
Props to the brave pilot that took the first flight!
Many people would pay good money to be that pilot lol
It's like the top 5 most beautiful large-scale jets in the world. It's a one of a kind super sonic bomber that requires high security clearance to fly. Paying wouldn't be the only thing I'd do to just sit in the cockpit.
Every aircraft in the boneyard is in preservation. There are different levels of preservation. They're not just parked there and left to die. The ones that are able to be "brought back from the dead" are in a level of preservation that enables this to be done in a certain amount of time. It's not as incredible of a feat as you think it is.
@@thelonelypigeon9554yea man some knobs would be gobbed. That’s for sure 😂
Props? No! Jet engines 😊
Former B-1 maintainer here. I hated seeing my planes get sent to the boneyard. I remember sending that one there. I also remember when the one it's replacing blew up.
Is it a pain to mantain or is it fun?
Former boneyard technician here. I don't recall you.
@@billyjones6626 b1-b maintenance in the depot and NOT in the boneyard 🙄
At least they weren't chopped up like our B-52Gs. I couldn't watch the videos. RIP 379th Bomb Wing. SAC
I took a tour of the boneyard and it is huge , and the aircraft are well preserved for future use.
Even outside in the heat and bad weather?
Em when i see these a10 i cant really trust you
@@maumaumau3929 You don't need to trust me, go there and see for yourself. I just stated my own observation
I flew an F-111G to the boneyard to Tucson in 1993 from Cannon AFB, NM. Pretty cool experience. Got a tour of the boneyard and saw an F-4E with PN tail flash. It was tail number 1200- same jet that had my name on it with 3rd Tactical Fighter Squadron at Clark AB, PI. On another side note, the cab driver that took us to our hotel was from a small town in upstate New York, Ilion, NY. My dad’s home town. Turns out the cab driver lived four houses down from my grandparents and grew up friends with dad.
Always love with the bone.. best looking bomber aircraft in the world!
Agreed, It is the Raquel Welch / Pamela Anderson of aircraft. The mighty F4 Phantom is one of my favorites also.
Considering i live in oklahkma, specificaly 20 minutes from tinker, i hope theres a way i could go see it!
I would use the caveat of OPERATIONAL, because what would have been it's predecessor, the XB-70 looks like a spaceship.
It’s so good. There’s one at the air museum by my house and it always blows my mind
and the B-52 just keeps smiling !
ONUD! 😁😝🤪🤣👍👍🇺🇸
Nothing would stay in the sky without maintainers
Davis Monthan is the boneyard for Navy, Marine Corps, and Army aircraft also.
Well, if they come nosing around the S-3s, somebody let me know because I'm too old to get recalled.
@@martykarr7058 I sent several P-3s there myself. But I'm still active anyway. Lol
bring back numerous C-5A and C-5-B Galaxys!
So is it now called Lancelot's BoneR...R for regeneration...😅😮😅
🤣
Good one lol
Since when does the Military, Worry about a budget ??? JOKE...
It's Davis Monthan's sole purpose
Constantly
If u ever come to Tucson this is a must see. Totally awesome 👌
Yep this is why we keep them for
Ither parts or aircraft replacement
Sometimes they use mothballs for r&d projects
Russia has a solution for that they just steal the parts.😅
Ejection seats? I thought the whole cabin goes up
Or am I confusing myself with F-111
FB-111
This all a gimmick for the military industrial complex! Seriously. Look at the F-16, after 1 hour of flight time, it reqires 16 hours of maintenance time! That's for real! So one 4 hour flight takes that airplane off line for 2 1/2 days?! Nice job designers. Screwing American Taxpayers!
Honestly, if they have fabricated modern airframes in near airworthy condition. Its probably worth the work to engineer solutions and update a fleet to put them in a useful configuration.
It just takes exceptionally skilled and knowledgeable engineers and mantainence professionals.
One of the reasons that they are not kept at operational standards is the cost to keep them at operational standards.
Operational aircraft have maintenance schedules where parts are replaced needed or not.
In a non operational status we save money by only replacing them once when an aircraft is brought back to operation.
Instead of once every 90 days for ten years.
They don't do that because it is in fact not worth the cost. You're talking billions of dollars lol
Just dor reference ( having not viewed entire vid) there are also navy and marine AC stored there as well
Army stuff too.
Commercial aircraft was stored there during covid when the number of flights being taken was low. It's a very important and highly used place. If you check it every year or two on Google Maps, you'll see new aircraft come in and old ones go away all the time.
Fun Fact, in 1962 I was born on Davis Monthan AFB. My old man was in the Air force stationed there.
But how much is the restoration cost of the Lancelot? Surely well below $15 Million right?
How much to bring it back from the boneyard vs the 15m to restore the one that exploded?
It’s just money to them… our money, but they don’t care. California lost 24 billion supposed to go the homeless. I guess that’s why they are still on the street😳
It just so happens in the near future they will start pulling them from the bone Yard and fixing them back up but as they are doing it shit will hit the fan and boom boom boom everything up in smoke and flames
How much did it cost to "bring it back"! Helluuuuuuuuuuu! 😱😁😝🤪🤣👍👍🇺🇸
how in the hell does a B1 randomly explode
The engine exploded. Blew the wing off, I believe.
Well, how does a boeng suddenly fall out of the sky?
@@ithmithsobvious awnser man..
Maybe a "hey, somebody hide my beer" moment. 😂
@ithmiths fr Boeing is so corrupt I am worried if f15 will start falling apart mid air
Proud of those folks!
i grew up in tucson and drove by the boneyard every day. it seemed so normal but when i think about it it’s definitely pretty sick.
I never drove past you, but you're pretty sick
I always find this such a neat program
I've worked on that aircraft.
Pilot; AK7 map light does not work in the oh oh ff position
I literally saw those write ups, just like that.
The Oscar-Nancy On-Full-Force switch does NOT work in the On-Full-Force position!
I live about a mile or less or more from the boneyard
Former p3 mechanic here for the navy. The airframers had a wing from the boneyard shipped to us. The original wing failed inspection, i can't remember but i thought after so many hours of a detrimental part they'll just expire it so there's no surprises in the air
They sent you guys a failed part to return to service? Or you mean "original wing" as in the one that the Orion came with?
They did it to a B 52 as well
Yeah the name did the Ghost Rider I can't tell that name was after him before it came back from the boneyard
15 million was too much to fix a wrecked plane, so we spent 20 million fixing up a junkyard plane. That government logic
50 mil versus 20
Definitely costs way less to take parts from an old plane that can't fly anymore than to fabricate brand new parts for planes that aren't built anymore.
is the bone yard not for obsolete planes that no longer is servbice but if theres a part they need for the plane that is being used or broken they can take it from a scrap plane from the boneyard and replace it i think thats why they call it the bone yard because they take parts from old planes from the boneyard if theres a part they need on the plane in service oviously not using the plane from the bone yard as the guiy said cost to much to restore it its always good for parts to take from
Some planes are kept in full preservation in case they need to be returned into service as a whole aircraft and not just meant to be taken for spare parts. There are several B-1s that are kept in preservation, this B-1 taken out for service is one of those.
So how much did all of this recovery and maintenance cost?
Probably over $15 mil
@@Drewsky840 Ouch. But not terribly surprising.
Who cares? Money well spent. Better than all the useless University indoctrination.
American awesomeness! ..
I worked on that plane. ❤
B1 “Lancer,” not Lancelot.
He said nicknamed, not the issued name.
The B-1B that was reactivated was named Lancelot.
Should rename it Lancelot 2 or something catchy due to its rebirth
Aluminium vs Aluminum. Imperial British Units vs Metric. Standard wrenches
Doesn't sound like a good idea to me. Who pays for the plane initially, then these costs to bring it out of dormancy? THAT'D BE MY TAX DOLLARS - SUCH A WASTE. Wish I didn't at taxes because then I would not complain
I live right next to Tinker, i see F5/T38s flying all the time and occasionally KC135s, AWACS, and RARELY B1s, i think ive only ever seen one fly out and that was 10 years ago, one saturday i saw 2 A 10s fly in
I'd bet that the restoration of this Lancelot B-1 is more than $15 million. What the fck is the Pentagon thinking 🤦♂️🤦♂️. Spending $15 million on a strategic bomber is nothing. B-1s are highly effective bombers, and every single airframe should be saved and restored back to flying (few can be in mothball storage).
15 million for repairing an exploded B2 and yet they are paying about 70K and hour to fly a F22
Wow, cool. Must be a pretty fun job making an old airframe fly reliably again. ✅ Go USA. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
DMAFB in Tucson, Az, my adopted hometown!
DMAFB is just about 10min from my house. Fun fact, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, filmed at the boneyard here in Tucson for one of its scenes.
Similar to the moth fleets. Certain ships are well maintained, "JUST IN CASE!" They are not day one maintained, but sea worthy.
You should go across the street from the boneyard (AMARC Tucson) they have a crane with a giant blade chopping planes up every day! It’s sad to see!
Final price of regeneration $14,999,999….savings! 👍🏻
Another B1 Bomber crashed in January of 2024 due to a variety of factors of training and the crews' mistakes.
“So what are we doing today boss?”
“EJECTO SEATO CUZ!”
Russia: Stores just about everything outside.
Quickly resembles it for service with limited upgrades and sends it to fight.
The US: Stores planes and boats outside, resembles it into as close to peak condition, upgrades it to fit the fleet.
Because a single vehicle of that class got wrecked.
Recording G's. If aircraft have been mollycoddled, then those air frames should be sweet.
It's wild that they have all that tax money just setting around.....how about selling all of it and giving back to the tax payers...
Bruh you literally didn’t answer the question. You asked ,,how” and answered ,,why”
How much did it cost to repair?
They scavenge parts off other B-1s in the boneyard. They might find a few new parts squirreled at bases where they used to be stationed like Ellsworth AFB. Only a small number were made so there's not truckloads of brand new parts. IIRC last one made was in 1988 so the newest plane is 36 years old.
The B-1 program would be in a LOT better shape if Jimma Carter had not F'd up the program. That's why the B-52 will keep flying until its 100 years old.
@@LuvBorderCollies Yep this is the sole purpose of Davis Monthan, most planes there won't see the sky again, but many parts of them will. If you look at Google Maps, there's ~25 B1s there when the last image was taken.
the bone is my favorite bomber
Military went, we know you just retired and have settled into your new life, but your country needs you. You're being pressed back into service effective immediately, we're sending over personnel to pick you up.
I want to know what the price was to restore it back to safe flying conditions... if the 15million was to much... 🤔
“They create us as machines of war, use us until we retire, and send us to this graveyard. Every, single, day, I see one of our brothers get torn to shreds and left where he was standing. I am forced to return back to that, hell, of a place when one of my brothers crumbled and took his own life.”
-Lancelot
It would not be so expensive if they weren't quoting a bolt as 20,000$ each.
The boneyard gave up the Bone!
AMARG can now be called the B-One Yard 😊
Air Canada parked 27 of their passenger planes in this yard during covid19.
Aircraft are reactivated on a regular basis at Davis-Monthan. This is not an unusual action. Additionally, all services use the Boneyard, not just the Air Force.
Your video is not necessary. The answer is a near open ended military budget request starting with the words, “We need”. Plus a list of companies with parts that over charge.
Im sure it was fun putting that thing together. But how the other one "EXPLODED" by doing maintenance on it?
Of course Russia wouldn't understand this concept and even if they did too many of the parts they would need to accomplish this task most likely have already been stolen😢😅😅
A B-52 nicknamed " Wise Guy " came back from the boneyard a couple of years back
So, 15 million is too high to fix one but they’ll spend an undisclosed amount on bringing one out of mothballs and install updated systems on it. Guarantee it cost more to bring Lancelot back.
Live right down the street.
Question for you. What is the white stuff on the windows and other important things. I know what it’s for ! Buy what material and how is it applied and removed ?
There is no way restoring a boneyard craft is cheaper than 15 million. There has to be something erong with the math. By the time you get it ready and all the necessary updates and structure changes needed potentially you would exceed 15 million in no time. Something is off here. The exploded B1 had to be far worse off or the would have used lacelot for parts instead of restoring it.
On a side note a bomber crew in WWII rebuilt a B-17B From the boneyard named Old 666
diesn’t T-6 aircraft aluminum age-harden? becomes hrader and mire brittle wirh age?
It’s not that infrequent. Nothing unusual about taking them out of storage at all. B1? It had to be an early model for so much work.
Months and months of refurbishing. But how long would it take if you did the bare minimum, say you are in the middle of a war and need to crank out planes as fast as possible?
Spend 50 mil to save 15 mil. Government at work.
It’s not just Air Force planes stored at the Boneyard. Plenty of retired Navy aircraft are parked there too.
Is it just me who finds it a little bit amusing the Air Base where the maintenance is happening is called "Tinker"?
The main question I would like to ask is how much did they save by bringing one out of the boneyard over the cost you mentioned earlier on? Tia.
*The B1B has a 75,000-pound (34,000 kg) payload, which is the heaviest of any U.S. bomber. The B52 has payload up to 70,000 pounds (32,000 kg) of weapons. The idiots in the pentagon and politicians want to replace both with the B21 which only has an estimated payload capacity of 20,000 lbs (9,100 kg). However, other sources say the B-21 can carry up to 30,000-40,000 lbs.*
The B-1 should not be replaced by the B-21. The B-1 is highly effective. Can carry the heaviest payload as u mentioned, it's the cheapest to maintain, it can operate from a wider range of airfields compared to the other 2, it's also the fastest (just an upgrade to the new F-15 engine and it can supercruise). The B-1 could also conduct maritime missions, ocean reconnaissance/surveillance & maritime strike (targeting and engaging enemy vessels with anti-ship missiles). The B-21 should only replace the B-2.
Hey America checkout you universal healthcare lot!
Click bait. Didn’t explain how I can export a jet and restore it :(
I mean the car I grew up driving is over 32 years old. I went to buy a battery only to find it's not even listed in the parts books anymore and had to use a newer car with the same engine as a reference to buy parts.
So, “you fix stuff because it sat for so long.”
Yeah …. That checks out.
Not going to lie 500 parts was lower than I thought it wpuld be
Agreed, when I worked on the B1s we had a plane every shop on the flight line used for "can" parts. That thing had thousands missing. It took a special crew and over a year to put it back together.
This is only 500 because most are pulled parts to protect and seal off everything and fill the systems with anti corrosives.
The playground all those planes would make. Imagine hide and seek there
i can assume theres hunners of old planes to new planes that are there from ww1 2 and from the 80s 90s and till now i can just imagin that theres alot of tom cats and f16s and f4 phontoms there also wathogs and fa 18 hornets many more there
I love the fact that if the boneyard was a country it would have the third largest air force behind the United States Air Force and the United States army
But...but ...what does it do after all this money spent on it ...?
We spend billions on manufacture, and cheap out on the millions necessary to maintain.
“How its…”
Proceeds to not tell how
Let me Shortenness for everyone with one word * MONEY *
What about the boneyard airplane boneyard there in Southern California they still are restoring those planes aren't they that were from the military and all that
The question is: how much did/will THAT cost?