The Boneyard: Military aircraft cemetery revealed
A stunning military cemetery filled with £22.6 billion worth of decommissioned military aircraft has been revealed on Google Earth.
Dubbed The Boneyard, the US airbase in Arizona is said to be home to over 4,200 retired aircraft including ones which flew in World War II.
They are laid out in intricate patterns covering the 2,600 acre site, which can now, for the first time, be seen in high resolution images from Google.
However, you may already have seen The Boneyard... it has featured in several Hollywood movies including Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
Among the places on the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base site are F-14 fighters, B-52 Cold War-era bombers and A-10 Thunderbolts.
The Boneyard was set up after WW2 to store B-29 bombers and C-47 transport planes, but now contains almost every plane the US armed forces have flown since.
Hundreds of maintenance staff are employed to strip the machines of engines, electronics, munitions and wiring for recycling or reuse.
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Davis-Monthan Air Force Base
The Boneyard was set up after WW2 to store B-29 bombers and C-47 transport planes, but now contains almost every plane the US armed forces have flown since.
Hundreds of maintenance staff are employed to strip the machines of engines, electronics, munitions and wiring for recycling or reuse.
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Davis-Monthan Air Force Base
