The first thing we wanted to share was Mike seeing Guy Fieri while he out driving for Lyft. Guy was coming to many restaurants to do his show. Unfortunately Mike could only get this picture of him. It was fun though.
One of the fun (funniest) things to see while in Tucson, AZ was the Davis-Monthan Air Force Boneyard. Here is an aerial view of the boneyard. Many planes being destroyed but many others waiting around until they are needed.
“In February of 1956, the first Convair B-36 Peacemaker aircraft arrived at Davis-Monthan AFB for scrapping. All of the fleet of 384 Peacemakers would ultimately be dismantled except for four remaining B-36 survivors saved for air museums.
In 1965, the Department of Defense decided to close its Litchfield Park storage facility in Phoenix, and consolidate the Navy’s surplus air fleet into Davis-Monthan. Along with this move, the name of the 2704th Air Force Storage and Disposition Group was changed to Military Aircraft Storage and Disposition Center (MASDC) to better reflect its joint services mission.
In early 1965, aircraft from Litchfield Park began the move from Phoenix to Tucson, mostly moved by truck, a cheaper alternative than removing planes from their protective coverings, flying them, and protecting them again.
The last Air Force B-47 Stratojet bomber was retired at the end of 1969, and the entire fleet was dismantled at Davis-Monthan except for about 30 Stratojets which were saved for display in air museums.
Davis-Monthan is today the location of the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG), the sole aircraft boneyard and parts reclamation facility for all excess military and government aircraft.”
Besides seeing all the planes while are you are driving on the roads, you can take a tour from the Pima Air & Space Museum for $10. For those of you who would like to see acres and acres of airplanes, this is the place for you but you cannot walk the space.They drive you through the bone yard so you can see all the planes. By the way, they no longer want to call it the boneyard and prefer to call it Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG) at least that was what we were told on the tour. The tour is an hour and half in a bus. You are not allowed to get out of the bus and get close to the airplanes.
Here are just a few of the many pictures that Mike took.
