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Marcio Ferreira
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Posted: 09 December 2009 at 7:24am \| IP Logged \| 1

This seems to be a great background for a comic book story or a novel.

32А 9′3.24″N 110А50′2.49″W

You can use google maps and see how huge it is.

There is also this interesting website on the subject.

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Marcio Ferreira
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Posted: 09 December 2009 at 7:26am \| IP Logged \| 2

Just a flavour of what I am talking about.

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Michael Hogan
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Posted: 09 December 2009 at 12:53pm \| IP Logged \| 3

Drove by this place with the family this past August. It truly staggers the mind to see the rows upon rows of hardware -- and we were at ground level (of course)!

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Ryan Maxwell
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Posted: 09 December 2009 at 1:03pm \| IP Logged \| 4

It boggles the mind to think of how many trillions of dollars are sitting there rusting.

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Michael Huber
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Posted: 09 December 2009 at 3:05pm \| IP Logged \| 5

There's been many movies with "aircraft boneyards" in them. The least notable was "Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man". Blech...

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Gabriel Garcia
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Posted: 09 December 2009 at 3:34pm \| IP Logged \| 6

You can still see the broken up B-52's that have to be left out for the Russians to verify their destruction by treaty agreement.

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Chris Abel
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Posted: 09 December 2009 at 4:19pm \| IP Logged \| 7

There's a similar airplane graveyard near Mojave, CA as well. It's typically for civilian aircraft unlike the one in Arizona that's mostly military.

http://www.panoramio.com/photo/3088143

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Eric Ladd
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Posted: 09 December 2009 at 4:26pm \| IP Logged \| 8

Here is another good one:

http://blogs.static.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/33186.htm l

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Al Cook
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Posted: 09 December 2009 at 4:33pm \| IP Logged \| 9

Isn't there one of these near Cairo on the Mississippi?

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Peyton Holden
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Posted: 09 December 2009 at 4:53pm \| IP Logged \| 10

This place is very fun to visit as is the small aviation museum across the street.

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Trevor Smith
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Posted: 09 December 2009 at 5:04pm \| IP Logged \| 11

Do not disparage the good name of Harley Davidson & the Marlboro Man, Michael Huber!

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Marcio Ferreira
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Posted: 10 December 2009 at 8:20am \| IP Logged \| 12

Thanks for the addition, great stuff.

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