...are these all Starlifters?

[BrettMRC]

I was bored and looking at one of the boneyards on google maps:

32.150707545911075, -110.83546247210575

Are these all Starlifters?

[BrettMRC]

....scratch that - it was just the angle on the pic, now it's loaded better I think C5's?


...anyway - love a boneyard!

[hidetheelephants]

Yeh, C5 Galaxies; that's the boneyard at Davis Monthan.

[Tony1963]

I’m more interested in the WB-57s and B-57s/Canberras nearby.

[u-boat]

BrettMRC said:

I was bored and looking at one of the boneyards on google maps:

32.150707545911075, -110.83546247210575

Are these all Starlifters?

I’m sure you know but in google earth it’s all in really good 3d which makes it more interesting but some is a bit wonky.

[u-boat]

Apple Maps also has great 3d images here

Edited by u-boat on Wednesday 7th February 17:14

[u-boat]

The nearby air and space museum looks awesome 32°08'24"N 110°51'55"W

Loads of great aircraft together which is interesting for comparing sizes etc.

Google earth 3d

[Tango13]

u-boat said:

The nearby air and space museum looks awesome 32°08'24"N 110°51'55"W

Loads of great aircraft together which is interesting for comparing sizes etc.

Google earth 3d

Having been there I can safely say that Pima County museum is a full day out and then some!

If you're planning on visiting then I'd also investigate the nearby Titan missile silo that is now a museum, I only found out about it once I was out there and time constraints meant I couldn't visit.

[Tom1312]

Those pictures really don't give a sense of scale.

Such massive massive things.

Edited by Tom1312 on Friday 9th February 17:13

Edited by Tom1312 on Friday 9th February 17:14

[BrettMRC]

Fantasitc pictures!

[Tom1312]

Cheers, I'll see if I've got any more. I was lucky to get a tour of one and have a proper wonder round. They are massive! I think I the guy told me something like the first powered flight could be conducted inside the main cabin area and there's more wasted space than in inside a C17 in total.

[djc206]

We visited the boneyard and the Pima museum two years ago. There’s even more inside the buildings. Fantastic museum in a great city.

Whilst there we took a sightseeing flight out of Ryan airfield over the boneyard. The scale of the place is incredible

[aeropilot]

Much smaller now than what it was.

Some of the hundreds of B-52's parked up in the mid 90's awaiting the chop.



And lines of A-7 Corsair's from the same time period



A mate of mine I used to navigate for on stage rallies 40 odd years ago, was a bit of a spotter, as was his father, and he went with his Dad to USA on a spotting holiday back in the early 70's which included DM bone-yard, and he had some cracking photo's of literally thousands of F-86, F-100, T-33, etc and rows of prop stuff like C-54, C-121, C-97 Stratofreighters etc.