{"id":12640,"date":"2006-04-27T21:24:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-27T21:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/04\/27\/davis-monthan-air-force-base-boneyard-photos\/"},"modified":"2006-04-27T21:24:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-27T21:24:00","slug":"davis-monthan-air-force-base-boneyard-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/04\/27\/davis-monthan-air-force-base-boneyard-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Davis-Monthan Air Force Base &#8220;Boneyard&#8221; Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.driko.org\/Aviation\/DavisMonthan2001\/index.html\" title=\"DrikoLand Davis-Monthan Boneyard photo gallery\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" border=\"1\" alt=\"F-14s mothballed at Davis-Monthan AFB\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/davismonthan_f14s.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back in 2001, I had the opportunity to visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dm.af.mil\/\" target=\"_blank\">Davis-Monthan Air Force Base<\/a> for a work trip.  Better known as the &ldquo;Boneyard,&rdquo; Davis-Monthan is where thousands of U.S. military aircraft are mothballed, destroyed, and\/or stored in the Arizona desert.  It&rsquo;s a very cool place, with aircraft dating back from the forties to almost the latest generation aircraft, and because I was there for work, I had the run of the place.  Too bad my work colleagues weren&rsquo;t as excited as I was to explore, so I didn&rsquo;t get nearly as many photos as I would have liked.  \ud83d\ude41  I believe public tours are available, and the nearby <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pimaair.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pima Air And Space Museum<\/a> has hundreds of restored aircraft on display, but the Boneyard is way more impressive.<\/p>\n<p>To see the pictures I took, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.driko.org\/Aviation\/DavisMonthan2001\/index.html\" title=\"DrikoLand Davis-Monthan Boneyard photo gallery\" target=\"_blank\">my Davis-Monthan Boneyard photo gallery<\/a> or visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/driko\/sets\/72057594115121901\/\" target=\"_blank\">flickr photo set<\/a>.  The picture above is a very sad sight for me, especially considering that almost all F-14s are now decommissioned&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/drikoland\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">drikoland<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/photography\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">photography<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/aviation\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">aviation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/military\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">military<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/images\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">images<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-114609711246389804?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2001, I had the opportunity to visit Davis-Monthan Air Force Base for a work trip. Better known as the &ldquo;Boneyard,&rdquo; Davis-Monthan is where thousands of U.S. military aircraft are mothballed, destroyed, and\/or stored in the Arizona desert. It&rsquo;s a very cool place, with aircraft dating back from the forties to almost the latest &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2006\/04\/27\/davis-monthan-air-force-base-boneyard-photos\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Davis-Monthan Air Force Base &#8220;Boneyard&#8221; Photos&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-12640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}