The ‘boneyards’, as they are known, are collections of aircraft getting older. Still valuable for the massive aluminum composition, they are still old and obsolete. The new 777 class and jumbo class of aircraft gave pilots hard-ons, what with the new electronics packages allowing the planes to practically fly themselves coast to coast. Where’s the fun in that? So in eight or ten desolate US spaces, with old post-WWII runways, boneyards are used to save the obsolete planes. Las Vegas has several, Arizona as well, with Texas the majority. One hundred ten degrees and no humidity were great for preserving these planes and their scaled-down electronic packages. Even hotter is in the old hangars where a squad of Air Force-enlisted men were performing mindless tasks. Well, it seemed that way to all military grunts. Did I mention hotter, like 120 degrees of Las Vegas hot?
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