Looking for "Art" photos of the thousands of USAF planes at Yuma, Az.

[CanuckAmok]

Does anyone know of a local artist who uses the Air Force Gravehard as a subject?

Links would be appreciated, if you have 'em!

[Nostradammit]

1. If you mean the ones at Davis-Monthan in Tucson -

There used to be a collection called "Dead and Deader," but I can't find an active link to it. Tons of dead links exist, including the one on this page:

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Dunes/9200/amarc99.htm


I went on a tour of this "graveyard" as a boy scout in 1971 and it scared the beejeebus out of me. Very grotesque and disturbing. I've seen film footage of aerial flyovers and the scale of the place is mind-boggling! If you ever wondered where all your tax dollars go, just drive out to Davis-Monthan AFB and ask them to show you around the junkyard.

Hope this helps...

[punpirate]

3. My father was stationed at Davis-Monthan from...

... 1959-1960. I used to walk the fence for hours on weekends, past rows of propellers stacked up along the fence, miles long. By now, I'd guess there's a lot more there.

Lot of tax dollars there, but nothing compared to what's in the inventory now and destined for that place in a few years. A B-52 in 1960 was probably $20-30 million. When the B-2s get hustled off to the graveyard, we will have spent $2 billion on each of them just to procure, let alone maintain. A P-38 in WWII was maybe $25,000 to produce (and expensive, at that), but an F-16? Maybe $30 million a pop. In a few years, the graveyard is going to have more than its share of aircraft corpses full of gold fillings.

[Fridays Child]

2. Try this link, CA.

http://www.virtualtucsonmagazine.com/absec/arts/vtmgallery/gravegallery1.html