![]() If you want to feel this experience in the best way possible other than physically going, watch this video. In many cases, even though the frame will never fly again, the “guts” of the plane can be very valuable on something new. Well maintained planes have much to offer and you never know which cheap world leader or airline upstart would rather buy a reliable used bird than something fresh off the lot. It’s not all doom and gloom for aircraft arriving at Victorville however. ![]() For most planes, Victorville is the final stop.Īll those glorious old jumbos just weren’t made for todays world and before their 20th birthday, most will be retired. As the new plane takes excited passengers to a thriving city, the plane that used to make the flight takes off, with empty cabin for a destination where no one is waiting. When a new plane comes into service it receives the water cannon salute, gets a big birthday cake and passengers have a mini party celebrating the new marvel of aviation. Why would you? The scorching conditions which have inspired many a Western movie are far better suited for airplanes than people. Odds are if you’ve never driven between Los Angeles and Las Vegas you’ve never been anywhere near it. That leaves the question: if it’s on to the next one, what happens to the last one? About 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles, in the middle of the dry, cactus laden and barren Mojave desert you will find the graveyard where almost every airplane on earth goes to die. ![]() As airline’s reach for new heights both literally and figuratively, brand new aircraft with greater efficiency and passenger amenities are the next great leap. As explains (assist to Google Translate) with sublime understatement, “the owners of the hotel for truckers decided to make it different from the others.On to the next one. Take, for example, the Antonov An-24 turboprop left to go to seed off Russia’s M4 highway, whose hind section has actually become part of a hotel built around it. Yet even today, most Westerners have never even heard of Soviet-built Tupolevs and Ilyushins that once filled eastern skies, much less seen them. Thanks to and his drone photos, people can make those aviation acquaintances – often in “boneyard” settings as remarkable as the craft they harbor. ![]() The result was that many people in the Soviet sphere were unable to distinguish an Airbus from a Boeing until the Berlin Wall fell, and they began flying around in them. To a large degree that included aircraft, which meant nations allied with the USSR bought its military and commercial planes from Moscow, and regarded American and other Western options as off limits. ![]() Russian drone pilot films Soviet planes left to rotĪ Russian journalist and drone pilot calling himself has posted several photographs on his Instagram page that transport those who can still recall the Cold War back to an era when many things were either US or Soviet – period. Now a Russian drone pilot has captured astonishing shots of mothballed Soviet era craft – some of which much of the world has never seen before. Lacking those large, arid expanses, however, most Eastern European nations must dump permanently grounded craft wherever (and as discreetly as) they can. History has its rubbish heap, elephants their graveyards, and aircraft have a last resting place known as “boneyards.” In many countries, those final parking spots are located in deserts. ![]()
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