Narrator: The 309th AMARG stores the world s largest collection of military aircraft here in the Arizona desert.
Col. Jennifer Barnard: I like to call this the ugliest plane out here, the YC-14. It was an aircraft that never went into production.
Narrator: Eight hundred mechanics work nonstop, reclaiming critical old parts and regenerating aircraft so they can go back into service.
Barnard: I can t just pull over an airplane like you can a car. And we have to make sure that these aircraft are safe to fly. Our goal is not to be like a cemetery for the aircraft.
Narrator: That s Col. Barnard. She s served 25 years as a US Air Force Aircraft Maintenance Officer.
Feb 25, 2021
My mom mentioned something to me on our Boots on the Beach trip that when she boarded the plane home from our first family vacation to Mexico, she started tearing up because she didn t want to go home because the vacation was SO perfect. I didn t understand what she meant because I had some AWESOME vacations before. For example, going to London on my senior class trip was one of my all-time favorite vacations; however, I was ready to come home after seven days. I was excited to tell my family about everything I d done.
Well, Adam and I went to Arizona this past weekend to visit his childhood best friend (Jake) and his family (his wife, Marie, and their daughter, Olive). We got there on Friday night and came back Wednesday, and while we were on our way to the airport, I definitely started tearing up because I just wasn t ready to come home quite yet. I don t know if it s that I needed an extra day or if it s the fact that we were visiting friends, but the trip was the r
its decades of civil unrest have left vast swaths of colombia relatively unknown, even to its own citizens. to reach a place previously considered a no-go area, i ll fly out of an airport in villavicencio, 45 miles southeast of the capital city of bogota. on first inspection, this is an airplane bone yard, where unwanted props from romancing the stone corrode artfully. but in reality, this sleepy hangar is an important gateway to the more impenetrable parts of the country. the remote settlements in the amazon basin are cut off from the country with neither rail nor roads connecting them. there are only two ways in either boat for several days down river, or aboard a jungle bus, which is what locals call the world war ii-era dc-3.
its decades of civil unrest have left vast swaths of colombia relatively unknown, even to its own citizens. to reach a place previously considered a no-go area, i ll fly out of an airport in villavicencio, 45 miles southeast of the capital bogota. on first inspection, this is an airplane boneyard, where unwanted props from romancing the stone corrode artfully. but in reality, this sleepy hangar is an important gateway to the more impenetrable parts of the country.
its decades of civil unrest have left vast swaths of colombia relatively unknown, even to its own citizens. to reach a place previously considered a no-go area, i ll fly out of an airport in villavicencio, 45 miles southeast of the capital bogota. on first inspection, this is an airplane boneyard, where unwanted props from romancing the stone corrode artfully. but in reality, this sleepy hangar is an important gateway to the more impenetrable parts of the country. the remote settlements in the amazon basin are cut off from the country, with neither rail nor roads connecting them. there are only two ways in, either boat for several days down river, or aboard a jungle bus, which is what locals call the world war ii era dc-3.