Hundreds of airliners ABANDONED in the desert!

[Music] good morning we're out here in the middle of nowhere in the desert setting up for a little unique mission so yesterday we flew over a copper mine which was insane it's like this 900 foot hole in the ground today we've moved like an hour south we're set up kind of close to this Airport that is sort of an aircraft boneyards storage facility and they've got like hundreds of giant airplanes there winds are light this morning it's going to be a little tight launch between all these bushes and squaw rose and everything but I think we'll kill it if you guys have it yet check out our patreon down in the description shout out to all the current patreon you guys seriously Rock all right we're gonna get strapped up on the old butt fan in a minute here and see if we can get off the ground [Music] and I feel like ice ended weights you tighter than that intro to be flying it's an early morning alright everything's looking good all we got to do is send it let's hit it oh yeah plenty of room nice and easy one [Applause] [Music] you imagine before bobbin into one of those guys I can see the airport already right behind me there's a little quieter port directly ahead is the airport and it's just like steady airplanes that's all you see I don't have too much fuel for this mission I need to refill on our next gas stop so I'm not gonna hang out here forever I just want to do my thing fly around before the wind starts to pick up and the Sun starts to heat everything although there are some clouds obscuring it these roads are freaking gnarly and enough you can see that but they are not kept very well and the paramotor strapped down in the back of the trailer are just like me eating up the plywood truck operation we might have to figure out a way to do that before like where a hole in the floor the trailer over there there she is just coming into view probably on the GoPro what a weird thing it is like in the middle of absolutely nowhere desert we got fields and then all of a sudden you've got like hundreds of airliners just chillin here full disclosure a lot of the sites we've flown on this trip I've flown before a lot of them I flew like two years ago before I was really regularly posting on YouTube and my GoPro like corrupted nearly every file so I lost most of the footage from a lot of epic flights now that's part of the reason we're back again cuz these places are so epic it's sick to do it another time and actually get it on footage and I'm sure there's gonna be some aviation enthusiasts out there that are gonna be eking out hard like oh that's a 757 I don't really know at least airline inspect stuff that much I'm not sure what half these guys are my buddy Chris would now shout out to Chris and Chris is watching look hit this man [Music] and gnarly now some of these planes are like totally decayed or they have parts taken off of them some of them are just kind of in storage they can be put back into service that one's got Chinese air China they like the tail on that one brothers just God this whole line is Delta [Music] [Music] insane right past the tail kinda feel like these ones that are wrapped up with this foil stuff are on the landing gear and engines maybe they might have some use left to up the rest of like the tails they look like they're they've been out here for a while [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] lufthansa I don't even know how you say that we got evergreen international [Music] Serna TWA global air tanker service that's pretty cool this guy's just mega all right we've had enough fun here I don't know what my fuel situation is right now and it's a little bit windy it's laminar but there's definitely turbulence if you fly downwind of any of this stuff well that was pretty neat I'm gonna skirt on back get a little bit of headwind to battle on the way back the cold down here on the ground so I think what our current plan is I think we're gonna roll into town get showers and the planet fitness and then sometime after that I think we're gonna head up to Vegas today I'm not entirely sure there's a couple of cool places to fly around Vegas and we were just gonna spend one night in the RV park in Vegas just for fun but I checked out the forecast and the winds are predicted to be really really high for like a couple of days so I don't know we might find somewhere else to hang out for a little while honestly I don't really much mind not flying for a couple days cuz I really need to get caught up on editing and posting videos for you guys we've had pretty much back-to-back good days of fly the weather hasn't been perfect every single time but it's been pliable so I haven't had much downtime to get at it's done and the internet situation has been really difficult we must just have to go into a town and into a Starbucks all the time out of the shopping cart get out here that sounds like some quality shenanigans another shopping cart that was freaking best by just cruising along super-low pretty rad down here there's the vein mobile just lurking as soon as I can determine the best wind direction landed we'll drop it for a landing [Music] so we just rolled up in Vegas and we're at the RV park here at Circus Circus and we got our we're gonna put on the band and I got a pretty sweet parking spot not gonna lie it's not too shabby after that we haven't eaten dinner so we're gonna go out and eat some dinner but I think we're gonna end this one here from Vegas we're gonna go wherever the weather calls really because it's supposed to be windy here so we're not gonna stick around much valley of fire probably and then into southern Utah so if you're just joining us hit that subscribe button and follow along the journey I'll see where it goes until the next one peace out Jacqueline do the thing oh not that hard gonna break it [Music]

Channel: Tucker Gott

Views: 1,693,753

Rating: 4.8413491 out of 5

Keywords: van, van life, sprinter, sprinter van, van conversion, tiny home, off the grid, off grid, camping, paramotor, tucker, gott, tucker gott, vlog, adventure, gopro, flying, bone yard, airline, airplane, crash, flying to mcdonald's, mcdonald's, flying to mcdonald's on my paramotor

Id: Mxp0IPzO8io

Length: 12min 42sec (762 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 24 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/scottbob3]

I've always really liked Tucker's content, he feels super down to earth and I like that a lot.

[u/FractalJaguar]

He had me at 'butt fan'

[u/4thQuarterGoran]

So I'm pretty sure this is Pinal Airpark in Southern Arizona.

It's about halfway to Tucson when driving from Phoenix. It used to be completely controlled by the Government since they do Paratrooper training in that area in addition to helicopter training for the Military.

Recently, someone has started giving tours of the boneyard to anyone who calls in beforehand. Really cool place.

Pinal is an active airport; every now and then you get to see a 747 run its engines up on the runway for some reason, presumably to keep them from gathering too much dust.

Arizona has a few of these boneyards, but Pinal and one in Kingman, AZ (KIGM) are the most notable ones.

[u/RadicalPoopParticle]

Why are those planes dumped in the desert like that? You'd think the scrap metal value would be sufficient to have them recycled..