Airplane boneyard in the Arizona Desert, Nov 7

The location I was teaching the ACS class was the Silverbell Army Heliport, which just so happens to overlook an airplane dumping ground. Seeing all those airplanes in various states of disrepair was weird. There were hundreds of them!




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