Inside The US $35 Billion Boneyard: Where Planes Come to Rest, and Then Fly Again
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- Опубликовано: 6 апр 2023
- The Boneyard is more than just a junk yard for aircraft. The Boneyard, is #NotWhatYouThink #NWYT #longs
Music:
Skipping Class - Birdies
Just the Right Amount - Arthur Benson
No Stone Unturned - Brendon Moeller
Ostinato - Vieveri
We Are Giants - Silver Maple
On the Trail - Tigerblood Jewel
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Orange and white have historically been test squadron colors. The QF-16 is painted with an orange tail not because of reverence to the Tuskegee Airmen (the Alabama ANG 178th Fighter Wing and AETC 99th Flying Training Squadron do that with red tails) but because orange and white are easy to spot in contrast to the blue sky.
Orange also indicates that there is test equipment on board the aircraft.
Our understanding was that those F-16 airplanes already had red tails before being turned into QF-16 drones:
www.187fw.ang.af.mil/About/#:~:text=The%20wing's%20100th%20Fighter%20Squadron,pay%20tribute%20to%20that%20heritage.
But maybe we got that bit wrong!
@@NotWhatYouThink I'll try to sort this out. You are correct about the history of the markings of the Red Tails. The 100th FS currently has between 3-4 of their aircraft with all-red tails. Last I checked, F-16Cs 87-0332, 87-0336, & F-16D 87-0379 had all-red tails. Other F-16s were 87-0217 & 88-0151 had an all red tail during their 2009 combat deployment to Iraq. The drone aircraft are painted in International Orange (FS 12197).
@@NotWhatYouThink Maybe the Alabama ANG divested from some of their old Vipers. I know when I was a Vermont ANG troop we had the red tails show up every now and again. Maybe a couple of the 158th's old Vipers ended up in their hands after we went from the F-16 to the F-35.
Regardless, good video.
Orange has been used to designate training for aircraft, aircraft equipment and recoverable inert ordnance for a long time.
It is functional, not historical.
You are correct!
i remember this CoD mission
I had a feeling someone would post this.
@@rascoehunter3608same
Fighting the jagger naughts 🙌🙌🙌
I remember the GTA: San Andreas location
"I know you can hear me on this channel Makarov"
That F-117 is amazing. You can't even see it!
Best stealth tech the only problem it was ever shot down and taken out of service is because of the early gear cloak malfunction which was perfected in the f22 It’s Not What You think 😂
@@yaboidspdadon5838 Yeah, I think I remember that. Wasn’t the problem that the plane couldn’t uncloak so they couldn’t find the wreckage? The only parts recovered were by those guys who went drinking at a strip club, got so $hit face drunk they thought they hit a brick wall. Turned out they’d run into the still invisible parts of the plane! The kindly strippers took them in, cleaned them up and their wallets out then, brought them back to base. It took multiple teams almost a year to recover what they did! They had to feel around the strip club and girls to ensure no sensitive items were left insecure. As I recall the club closed after after the strippers married the airmen and eventually PCS’d. At least that’s how I remember it. It’s not what you think!
🤣
It’s new stealth tech
@@yaboidspdadon5838
It was shot down because US don't get a joke
Have you visited the Boneyard? If so, what was your favourite part?
no
Every day!
It's not what you think!
about 3 years ago you made a video about this topic and mispronounced "Tucson". I correct you guys in the comments and you told me that you would fix it in the future. I'm back to say thank you. I still watch and really enjoy your videos. ❤
The part where Capt Price radios Makarov about Shepherd
Neat! I used to run next to the Bone Yard when I was stationed at Davis Monthan. I realized how lucky I was to have such a cool scene to look at while I ran. And you even pronounced Tucson really well. Good for you!
Same here! Used to pass it numerous times a day going to work in and out of the Wilmot gate. :)
Same. Used to ride my bike down that jogging/bike path (aviation parkway, I think it’s called?) that runs from downtown to the boneyard. I always enjoyed looking at all the old planes.
@@Chuck8541 It's a land of extremes for sure. I'm from God's Country (New Hampshire) originally.
@ thanksfernuthin... Good try buddy!!! Everybody knows God's from Missouri!! Hell the Mormon church even found the garden of Eden up around Indepence!!!
@@tomcline5631 Aaahhh HA!!! I was told people from other locations would lie and say they were from God's Country. Typical! Good try indeed!
The huge aircraft hangar at 1:10 was built as a blimp hangar by the US Navy at Moffett Field in Sunnyvale, CA. Not for airplanes. I used to work in the NASA-Ames buildings around it. Clouds would occasionally form inside at the peak under certain weather conditions. Actually, I love your videos for the incredible amount of research that goes into them. One of the best aviation-related channels.
Hey cool! There's also a blimp hangar in Tillamook OR built during WWII that is currently an air museum.
@@matthewlarson738 Live in Sunnyvale and have been to both hangers.
Not just for blimps. It was built to house the ZRS-5 USS Macon a 785' airship known as the 'Flying Aircraft Carrier". After it went down off the coast of Monterey, CA in February of 1935..it was used for storage. Then in the 40's - early 60's it housed US Navy Blimps and a Blimp Patroll Squadron ZP-32.
Also the massive wood frame blimp hangers at the former MCAS Tustin..
He just used that image to illustrate a very large hanger, he didn’t say it was built for airplanes, lol
Penguins are cool
they are really cool
Yes
Penguins? You mean fancy dressed eggs?
They live in Antarctica, it always cool there.
agree
Always a better day when NWYT posts
I love how you say temps in AZ "could" get over 100°F... more like it's guaranteed for one to two whole months or more out of the year lol. July and August are brutal in the continental US!
In southern az the temps “could” get over 130, but they “will” get over 110
Oh don't forget September and maybe June. Oh, early October and it's mid April and it's supposed to be 99 on Tuesday!
115 sometimes
You’re pretty likely to see triple digit days in May too.
If you Americans simply converted from Fahrenheit to Celsius, your temperatures would never exceed 100°. We're pretty smart here in Australia. 👍
One of my buddies from high school was stationed at Davis-Monthan and had to pull security around the boneyard. He said it was the creepiest posting he ever had.
curious why was it creepy? i love aviation but this video in general was slightly unsettling
@@jammindesigns7135 He said that some of the aircraft were haunted. He also witnessed creatures in the night desert that he couldn’t reconcile. He’s not one to exaggerate or have grandiose way of thinking.
@@OldManAzeban - have him send his complete experience, and drawings of the creatures to Beyond Creepy (RUclips channel). I'm always interested in the paranormal, and that channel would be appropriate for recounting his experiences.
@@OldManAzeban I work on amarg and have been there since 05, I have heard some weird stories about some of the hangers being haunted. I can tell you i do not care to be there by myself after everyone leaves lol.
I think this is one of my favorite episodes. Its just so interesting and answers so many questions.
Best junkyard you can possibly work at!
This would be such a cool place for a tech to work - pulling parts, rebuilding planes.
Fun Fact not mentioned in this video. IF the boneyard were an Air Force, it would be the 2nd largest in the world. With the United States already having the largest in the world to begin with (USAF, Navy, Marines, Coast Guard). God bless the 🇺🇸
If we are to split all operational US aircraft by which military branch the top 5 of worlds largest airforce list would have all of it be the US that is if we count marines as a separate entity and people still think china and russia could actually go toe to toe with that?
Aw man. I needed this badly. The Boneyard is in my hometown and I'm feeling uniquely homesick.
Everyone talks about sustainability! This is really sustainable!
I did not know there was so much work going on. Thank you
It is a good solution to an age old manufacturing problem.... who keeps the spare parts.
I worked in the Auto industry for 30 years. The big 3 always wanted me to hold the inventory when a program ended. I told them that I would, and here is the storage cost. But they always seemed to think that storage costs should be free...
Used to pass by it for work and It's very interesting with the colors you don't expect from the coatings. Everything looks so well preserved and ready to get back out with minimal effort.
This video was very informative. It pissed me off every time an aircraft, ship, tank, or car ended up being destroyed because they were old.
I used to live a few blocks from one of the gates there. Went on the base occasionally for work. Coolest thing I ever saw there was a few of the drones that were carried by the SR-71’s.
There is only one thing that separates these facilities from junkyards is the preservation aspect. Keeping them around so that they can either donate parts to their brethren in service or for getting back into service if needed. Beyond that its purpose is essentially the same.
Aweee dang. Another banger of a video. Thank you for such awesome content!!
Considering this is a video about storage...this is fascinating. Top content!
Great! Thank you for sharing.
As an aircraft nerd I am lucky to live in the flight path of Davis Mothan Airforce base which is adjacent to the bone yard. I get to see a lot of great aircraft fly in and out. BTW it gets a bit hotter than 100 degrees F here. It hit 114 last summer.
Yup, not uncommon for PHX to hit 120. Which I hope happens soon cuz I'm freezing in these 50deg evenings.
@@ronjon7942I’m currently visiting Thailand with no AC and would kill for a 50 degree evening lol
@@ronjon7942 me here in bangladesh is also experiencing 50 degrees.. But in celcius. Be happy with what you got my man!
@@bevercage6673 Jesus Chrysler how the hell are you alive
Awesome video! Thanks!
I was stationed at March AFB near Riverside, CA in '68. We flew a KC-135, tanker into Davis Monthan for the day. I went along as a technician, if needed. Once we landed, I got off the aircraft and got hit in the face by the heat and it felt like standing in front of an open furnace. Although it was a dry heat which made it tolerable, it was still very oppressive. Considering that my home base outside Riverside was in the desert, the heat in this place was a new experience.
Yeah. I'm used to it, and I actually enjoy it a bit, but to people just coming in? It's like getting hit with the afterburner of an F-15.
That stealth fighter WOW! I could not even see it.
Very cool stuff! Fascinating that outdoor storage can be such a viable option, and nice to see many of these aircraft are maintained in some manner.
Климат позволяет.
They're maintained in such away that, if the need arises, they can out most of those aircraft back into service.
0:34 you know it's a Stealth Fighter because you can't see it
Nice video, thank you for sharing it :)
There are something about not what you think videos that feels so wholesome
Treasure trove for me! I would love to build a home next to it..having those planes in view across my yard is heaven😍
love seeing all this footage of my home town
Thanks for this 😎
That F-117 photo made me laugh until my sides hurt
Sides?
Very interesting and informative video! Thank you.
living in tucson and always seeing the bone yard it is nice to have it reconized
I've no about this place for most of my life and never knew as much information as I got today watching this video Nice job
Ahhhh, good ole hundred mile an hour tape FTW!
Recently visited the Southern California Logistics Airport in Victorville, another one of these facilities. Really interesting place. They had tons of neat planes: Boeing’s ecoDemonstrator, the GE Propulsion Testbed, and so much more.
The original narrator is what makes this Channel
We have only ever had one narrator 😉
@@NotWhatYouThink and please keep it that way…
I drive past the boneyard everyday going too and from work- it's a very active place- planes appear then disappear... lots of cool stuff in there
I live in Tucson have a bunch of friends of mine who work there go by the Bone Yard all the time. Really amazing to see all of these old vintage planes
Great video. 👍
I drive past there at least once a month.i live less than two miles from there. It's so cool to see all the planes just sitting and waiting to be called up
I'd like to go see my dad's old plane. P-3c Orion, VP 49. Just for the nostalgia.
Aww, good to see my home turf on the show 🤩
Use to live in Tucson in the 70’s and was blessed with a tour of the bone yard. The ground is truly cement. It’s called caliche. Almost impervious to penetration. Seemed like it was holding a lot more aircraft back then.
Back in 1991 I was in Tucson with an outfit doing and engine change on a Dc8 freighter working 6 10 hour days on Sunday the guys were going to see the bone yard but I was dead tired and didn't go ! I've always regretted it thanks for the video !!
Fun. Thanks!
Born and raised in Tucson and got stationed at DMAFB. Really saw the world. Anyway back when it was MASDC in the 60s and 70s you could still see old aircraft like B-36s and such. They lit one on fire out by DMs flightline when I was a kid for the firemen to practice on. My dad was a Fireman in the AF. All the families went out to watch. It was a blast.
I live right by this place. Literally less than a quarter mile away
Love these US Military videos!! I think the US military is always under-represented on videos, and you do a great job exploring the mysteries of the military!
And he's Canadian.
In the 1970’s my cousins lived about a mile from this location. We would sneak in through the wire and play in the old bombers. You probably can’t do that today.
AMARC is connected to Davis-Monthan AFB - an active duty Air Force base. When aircraft land, and are taxiing into the boneyard, we know it's most likely their last operational flight, before likely getting gutted, used for scrap, target practice, or destroyed.
Any Airmen on base near the flightline seeing an aircraft taxiing on the rarely used AMARC taxiway, often show respect to the aircraft and its service by rendering a salute to it.
These proud machines protected and defended America for decades. Millions of dollars were spent to design, build, and upgrade them...until it was no longer cost advantageous. A salute was all we could do to show some thanks.
I love how happy those aircraft at the start look
I love ur videos
I like you're sharp sense of humour.
I drove by this once while visiting Tucson. There are so many planes it’s hard to fathom
I live in Tucson Az. This place is huge and there is the Pima Air and Space Museum next to the base that has a lot of Airplanes from there. It really is something to see
Nice video
Fabulous!! Fabulous!!
Do they have a Toyota truck transmission? I need one
No.
@@nosaltadded2530 Dang. Do they have a Toyota truck AA Gun Mount?
Thank you for educating me.
In much of these things.
I had also not known where the boneyard was.(Just "out west;
in the desert, somewhere.")
Thank You!!
So many channels that do videos about the us and they are from Canada. So cool
I love going here as a kid. Got a tour of the old air force one
Very good quality video.
I lived in Tucson for 17 years and really miss driving by the boneyard every day.
This is why Americas military is so good. The thought to keep and PRESERVE!
After WW2 we (US) did scrap the vast majority of aircraft used during the war. Some were sold/given to other nations, some were sold domestically, but the majority of them were stripped of useful parts, then scrapped.
I saw one of the retired AC130H spectre gunships tail# 6573. I wish I could've seen it those things were legendary
Drove by there a couple months ago, that place is huge!
I like your interesting choice for an opening soundtrack.
What an interesting video!
Glad these planes are some recycled. Some parts never wear out so reuse is pragmatic. Must be quite the chore to document all the parts... the computer is essential. Good job guys!
I’d love to go visit this place.
Thank for throwing a race element in.
I knew OF the boneyard but not ABOUT the boneyard. Good video!
boneyard is like a rehab facility for aircraft
I love it all. But i was born here. The air museum on Valencia is amazing.
0:36 the f 117 is so stealth you can't even see it
The Boneyard always reminds me of the 1985 film, "My Science Project," because in the film, the protagonist finds his "science project" while making an unauthorized exploration of a military aircraft boneyard.
I've driven by the boneyard and I wish I could've walked around inside if the public was allowed to tour it. I'm a big fan of cold war history, so even just getting a small glimpse of the aircraft from passing by was a cool experience.
I've been there to the museum and able to walk around. Did they change that?
0:35 Very creative and funny 😂.
Been there twice. It's worth visiting for any airplane buff.
OMG! That cute black guy at 6:47 is Lonnie! I knew I would see a friend on this video. 😊
Excellent presentation. F16 is the Fighting Falcon. The Bell AH-1Z helicopter is the Viper
You've got that mixed up. The AH-1 is the Cobra. F-16s are Vipers; doesn't matter what the oficial designation is, nobody calls them Falcons.
The adjacent Pima Air and Space museum is really cool!
introducing the all new mix and match plane!
I have actually used parts that were reclaimed from planes in the boneyard. Lol. We enjoyed this video.
Philip Glass Metamorphosis...couldnt choose a better moment for this track then watching a Boneyard restore Aircraft.
You have made a truly excellent video about the Boneyard. I like reading about airplanes and have watched several videos on AMARG, but they are superficial compared to this one. Squirting oil in the fuel lines?? Well Done!!!
Fun fact most of the older/retired planes in boneyards , Ie. Phantoms and such can be bought !
Aircraft are not for sale as complete airframes. Scrap dealers who win a competitive bid must destroy the aircraft on site. Private parties are not able to buy aircraft in any condition.
That would be one cool place to see
Wow those Drone F16 comes from bone yard? Awesome!
I lived one block from it in the early 70's. We would occastionally sneak in and walk around. Itwas amazing b52's a4's helo's ,you name it, They also sliced up airliners too.
I've driven by this serval times with my father, there is so many aircraft. Not to mention it's next to Davis Monthan AFB that fly a10s, f16s, c130s, ac130s, and any manner of military aircraft multiple times an hour.
All day every day
i actually painted the orange on that aircraft lol cool to see it on this video.
You have a great channel! 2.38 m subscribers. Yup!
I live just outside of Davis Monthon AFB. You can get tours at the air museum to go though the bone yard.