"Boneyard Safari" aircraft article in the ADS (Tucson: contractor, live)

[WilmaWildcat]

Not the Davis-Monthan boneyard -- a different one: "It isn’t a pretty display...but this is an aircraft lovers paradise..."

http://tucson.com/entertainment/tour...ac2e9b9e5.html

Tours offer walk through aircraft, history at Tucson 'boneyard'

By Kathleen Allen Arizona Daily Star Apr 20, 2017 Updated 17 hrs ago

Aircraft history is scattered all over a big dirt lot in southeast Tucson.

And once a month, you can explore it.



Boneyard Safari, founded by Ramon C. Purcell, offers tours around and through some of the planes at Aircraft Restoration and Marketing (ARM). You can walk through the belly of a bomber, get a close up look at the cockpit of a C-47, study the bomb-loading guidelines in a P-3 Orion and step into the fuselage of a Vickers Viscount turboprop.



It isn’t a pretty display. These are aircraft that no longer carry troops, fuel airborne planes or drop bombs. They are not airworthy. Wires dangle from chairless cockpits, cone-shaped noses that once shined at the tip of planes are lined up along a chain-link fence. Disembodied tires and wings are scattered about.

But this is an aircraft lovers paradise. (Continued...)

[rbohm]

the pima air museum has aircraft that are flyable. they also have non US aircraft as well, including a few MIGs.

[WilmaWildcat]

Originally Posted by rbohm

the pima air museum has aircraft that are flyable. they also have non US aircraft as well, including a few MIGs.

??? Of course Pima Air and Space has that. I thought it would be obvious everybody knows that and that this is something different.

[AndyAMG]

Not sure what the aim of this thread is. 25 dollars to see uninteresting planes in such a decayed state they can't be identified. No thanks. Just get a spot on Pima's AMARG tour.

I work there as a civilian contractor and I don't tell people I do other wise, the next words out of their mouth is can you take me in to the bone yard? No.

Support the Pima Air Museum and pay for the tour.

25 bucks for this place is highway robbery.

Now 25 bucks to drive around Pinal Air Park. I'd be interested.

[beTucsonan]

Originally Posted by AndyAMG

Not sure what the aim of this thread is.

Could be that someone just wanted to share something they thought was interesting. Don't like the place, fine, but no need to be negative about the OP who is just sharing information. Sheesh.

[AndyAMG]

Originally Posted by beTucsonan

Could be that someone just wanted to share something they thought was interesting. Don't like the place, fine, but no need to be negative about the OP who is just sharing information. Sheesh.

As in it looks like an advertisement. Nepotisim on part of the ADS most likely. As this place is not worth seeing for free.

It reads like an ad placed by a failing business.

[robert999]

Great place to visit My nephew ,who lives in Tucson, took me there a couple of years ago during a visit.