Posted on 03/20/2020 9:01:18 AM PDT by C19fan
US airlines including Delta and United are sending their largest planes to a so-called 'boneyard' in the desert for storage as they significantly reduce operations due to coronavirus. Delta Air Lines, among others, are turning to Pinal Airpark some 90 miles south of Phoenix, to keep planes in good condition while they are not in use during the global health crisis. The 'boneyard' is home to hundreds of retired commercial and military aircraft that are stored in the dry desert conditions to prevent them from rusting. Major airlines have been forced to reduce their services near-on every day in light of President Donald Trump's travel ban, which was this week extended to include the UK as well as the rest of Europe.
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I haven’t heard anybody talking about how much less cloudy the sky has been, how many less contrails (chemtrails?) there are in the sky, or how much less deadly CO2 has been pumped in the atmosphere.
I once had a relative that lived in Tucson. So I got to drive around a little and see Davis-Monthan, AFB. An aircraft aficionado’s dream! And it is practically endless.
FedEx overnight or two day shipping is really just procrastination turned into a business model for a very spoiled and unplanned consumers.
Greta Thunberg must be pleased. The world is being saved, by being destroyed....an eco freaks wildest dreams come true.
Well my certification class got postponed (again) to who knows when; back home to Seattle and put on reserve. Flight schedules are being reduced by 70% by the end of April if this stupidity doesn’t end. Our future bookings are flat and people are asking for refunds. Furloughs could be on the horizon. Two regional airlines have tanked already.
The boneyard is a nice place and on YouTube, they did a drone of it. I think I saw an L-1011 there...
I gotta go to the old airbase/airport here and see if the storage place has added planes.
“Going to need a bigger plane boneyard.”
Agree, and waiting this long shows how lost people are on this. We’re talking years before a full recovery, if ever (I personally doubt ever). They should have been parking the planes a month ago.
I know we can have a perfectly sunny day in the morning and as the day wears on it become mostly cloudy because of all contrails 90 miles SW of O'Hare airport. Most of that happens during spring and fall with the cooler air aloft.
My last PCS was to Davis-Monthan on the EC-130. I like the area but the lib locals were annoying. The city grew out to DM and the neighbors started complaining about the aircraft noise. The Air Force didn’t cave in to them. They were there first.
Pinal airpark is in Maranna AZ, outside of Phenoix. Evergreen works out of there. Evergreens owner has some awesome flying WWII aircraft hangered there.
it’s yuge!
Their museum up in McMinnville, OR is really great too, AND has the Spruce Goose.
The city grew out to DM and the neighbors started complaining about the aircraft noise. The Air Force didn’t cave in to them. They were there first.
I’m thinking we’ll see the worst in the next 7, 10 days. Better after that.
Hopefully so - unless the media sees things going for the good and will have to hype it up some more to keep people agitated and frightened.
“One deactivated site is open as a museum south of Tucson.”
I was in Tucson when they were filming the Star Trek movie at that museum. They were also filming ‘Postman’ nearby.
If you ever get back to Tucson, be sure to go to the Pima Air & Space Museum.
Visited the Pima Air Museum a few years back with wife and son. I enjoyed it very much, wife not so much. Only place I know of where the Century Series of fighters are lined up in numerical order. Made this Old NCO’s heart race.
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