Mojave, California, USA --- Aerial View of Airplane Graveyard Mojave, California --- Image by © 68/Ocean/Corbis
Mojave, California, USA --- Aerial View of Airplane Graveyard Mojave, California --- Image by © 68/Ocean/Corbis
Original caption: This aircraft graveyard holds discarded military aircraft which are scavenged for spare parts, or sometimes, returned to service if needed. Digitally modified. --- Image by © Louie Psihoyos/Corbis
Original caption: This aircraft graveyard holds discarded military aircraft which are scavenged for spare parts, or sometimes, returned to service if needed. Digitally modified. --- Image by © Louie Psihoyos/Corbis
Original caption: This aircraft graveyard holds discarded military aircraft which are scavenged for spare parts, or sometimes, returned to service if needed. Digitally modified. --- Image by © Louie Psihoyos/Corbis
Original caption: This aircraft graveyard holds discarded military aircraft which are scavenged for spare parts, or sometimes, returned to service if needed. Digitally modified. --- Image by © Louie Psihoyos/Corbis
Aerial View of Two Airplanes Parked in a Row --- Image by © Stephan Zirwes/fstop/Corbis
Aerial View of a Row of Airplanes Parked --- Image by © Stephan Zirwes/fstop/Corbis
Germany, Hesse, Frankfurt, Airport, Cockpit of an airplane
Aerial view of airport and runway --- Image by © Johannes Mann/Corbis
Seen from the air at dawn, the last remaining B-52 bombers from the Cold War-era are laid out in grids across the arid desert near Tucson Arizona. These retired aircraft whose air frames are too old for flight are being recycled, their aluminium worth more than their sum total. In the nuclear arms treaties of the 80s, Soviet satellites proved their decommissioning by spying the tails had been sliced apart huge guillotines and set at right-angles. This is a scene of confrontation, with opposing forces apparently facing each other in the way that Soviet and western armies fought the war of propaganda. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
Aerial View of Three Parked Airplanes --- Image by © Stephan Zirwes/fstop/Corbis
February 15, 2010 - A U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress aircraft leads a formation of two F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft, two Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) F-2 fighter aircraft, two U.S. Navy EA-6B Prowler aircraft, and a JASDF E-2C Hawkeye aircraft over Guam during exercise Cope North. The U.S. Air Force and JASDF conduct Cope North annually at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, to increase combat readiness and interoperability.
Aerial shot of Munich airport --- Image by © Klaus Leidorf/Corbis
Seen from the air at dawn, dozens of F-4 Phantom fighters from the Cold War-era are laid out in grids across the arid desert at Davis-Monthan Air Forbe Base near Tucson Arizona. These retired aircraft whose air frames are too old for flight are being stored then recycled, their aluminium worth more than their sum total at this repository for old military fighter and bomber aircraft. They sit in neat rows in low light, their shadowy wings are blue in colour but their fuselage are stripped of markings, being taped up against the dust. This is a scene of once-great flying machines relegated to sad scrap, long-after the Soviet Union's own demise when western armies fought a war of propaganda.
Original caption: This aircraft graveyard holds discarded military aircraft which are scavenged for spare parts, or sometimes, returned to service if needed. Digitally modified. --- Image by © Louie Psihoyos/Corbis
Original caption: This aircraft graveyard holds discarded military aircraft which are scavenged for spare parts, or sometimes, returned to service if needed. Digitally modified. --- Image by © Louie Psihoyos/Corbis
Original caption: This aircraft graveyard holds discarded military aircraft which are scavenged for spare parts, or sometimes, returned to service if needed. Digitally modified. --- Image by © Louie Psihoyos/Corbis
Original caption: This aircraft graveyard holds discarded military aircraft which are scavenged for spare parts, or sometimes, returned to service if needed. Digitally modified. --- Image by © Louie Psihoyos/Corbis
Aerial View of Two Airplanes on Tarmac --- Image by © Stephan Zirwes/fstop/Corbis
02 Dec 2008 --- Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson Arizona is the location of the Air Force Materiel Command's 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG), the aircraft boneyard for all excess military and government aircraft. --- Image by © Steve Proehl/Proehl Studios/Corbis
02 Dec 2008 --- Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson Arizona is the location of the Air Force Materiel Command's 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG), the aircraft boneyard for all excess military and government aircraft. --- Image by © Steve Proehl/Proehl Studios/Corbis
Aerial shot of Munich airport --- Image by © Klaus Leidorf/Corbis
Aerial View of Three Airplanes in a Row --- Image by © Stephan Zirwes/fstop/Corbis
Tucson, Arizona, USA --- Aerial view of aviation boneyard with disassembled jets, Tucson, Arizona, USA --- Image by © Cameron Davidson/Corbis