-- An airport in the Southern California desert has become one of the nation's busiest "boneyards" as airlines struggling with the slowdown in demand for air travel are forced to cut flights and find space to park their idled planes. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Aircraft "boneyards" nationwide like this one in Victorville are filling up with jetliners no longer needed to ferry passengers in the midst of an economic recession. ❋ Unknown (2009)
With the economy in a tailspin, aircraft "boneyards" across the country are filling up with Boeing 747s and other jetliners no longer needed to ferry passengers. ❋ Unknown (2009)
For airplane buffs, a visit to Tucson's aviation boneyards conjures up images of the travelers who used and enjoyed the aircraft over the years. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Old jets have long ended their days in massive "boneyards" in Arizona, California and New Mexico, where they're stripped of parts for recycling. ❋ Ross Kelly (2011)
The photography of Troy Paiva treats us to canted visions of a crumbling, post-industrial America — decommissioned military bases, aircraft ‘boneyards’, abandoned desert towns. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Or even whether a place still exists — I came upon a few phantom restaurants, making me wonder whether amateur traveler sites will eventually become boneyards of failed enterprises unless paid updaters occasionally police the neighborhood. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Most of their planes, at least the transports, were sold to small commercial airlines around the world or abandoned on desert land the military called “boneyards,” to sit, empty, in long rows in the dry heat of Arizona, Oklahoma and Nevada. ❋ RICHARD REEVES (2010)
The boneyards of Arizona have fleets of A10s just ready to be stripped down and updated ready for combat, just one of the huge blunders the MOD imbeciles make on a daily basis. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The airline industry has grounded more than 11% of its jets in dusty airplane boneyards, mostly in New Mexico, Arizona and California. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The paintings, commissioned to illustrate “The Grave,” a popular eighteenth-century Scottish poem, are typically creepy depictions of boneyards, angels, twisted bodies, and swirling spirits. ❋ Unknown (2006)
It's the Las Vegas of boneyards, and my grave is in it. ❋ Butcher, Jim (2005)
But I had seen the battlefields of Alsace-Lorraine, and the acres of meadowland converted to muddy boneyards by the burial of the thousands slain. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (1992)
