Short title

Stored old airliners sit in mid-day heat of arid Sonoran Desert at Mojave airport facility, awaiting recycling for scrap value.

Filename

aviation_graveyard03-16-03-2008.jpg

Copyright

© Richard Baker. No copying, screen grabbing, transmission or publication without permission.

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4300x4364 / 8.5MB

transcontinental USA mid-day blue sky civil airliner jet aircraft jet photographer sky commerce trade international airbus Boeing commercial aviation remains section nose scrub dust cut-away sliced cockpit industrial economy fate forgotten Sonora desert heat laid bare disembodied relics dump retired junk scrap yard dead end equipment fuselage air frame parts end of service re-usable recycle scrap aluminium metalic facility California Mojave desert arid worthless old decline end of the line terminated era historic bygone archaeology technology airliners commercial storage lifeless useless redundant ruins boneyard graveyard airline aeronautics aerospace aircraft aviation flight plane planes transport transportation landscape 747 jumbo jet mass-tourism holiday travel tourism transporting airlines airfield airport abandoned relic raised hulk undignified wasteland old-age derelict summer condition climate