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http://www.desertusa.com/mag06/apr/airplane.html http://www.desertusa.com/mag06/apr/airplane.html Information about the Boneyard. The dry desert serves as a g
by rottencupcakes 15y ago
http://www.desertusa.com/mag06/apr/airplane.html http://www.desertusa.com/mag06/apr/airplane.html
Information about the Boneyard.
The dry desert serves as a great location to store planes for a long time, either for future use or for spare parts.
- bluedevil2k 15y agoWatched a documentary on it today - the dry heat is good for everything BUT the electronics. So, they spray a black rubber seal around planes with complicated electronics (that can be used in the future), and then spray that rubber seal white to keep the temperature lower. When the parts are needed, or the plane needs to fly again, they just peel it off.
- omegant 15y agoI've flown MD 88's that had been storaged like that. Wow they failed so often! once they had pass the initial maintenance and start flying, you still have to change docens of electronic parts ( like sensors, switches, or computers!) along the months, because they fail so badly. I don't know if that particular planes suffered a specially bad storage but they were a pain to fly...