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Title: 50 Years of the Desert Boneyard: Davis Monthan A.F.B. Arizona by Philip D. Chinnery ISBN: 0-7603-0187-5 Publisher: Motorbooks International Pub. Date: December, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: GREAT BOOK ON THE BONEYARD
Comment: Having lived around the boneyard for a number of years this book helped me remember some of it. My father would and still passes by alot of the airplanes today on his way to work or what ever. It was interesting to read it from an Englishman's point of view.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Book on the Boneyard
Comment: This is a worthy successor to Philip D. Chinnery's previous pictorial essays on the Boneyard (1987's "Desert Boneyard", and 1989's "Desert Airforce"...both out-of-print). The format is larger, and the quality of the photos is excellent. There's also a tantalizing mix of aircraft...you can hardly wait to turn the page and see what glorious old bird is baking in the hot desert sun on the next page. You really get a feel for the place, and you see more on these pages than you'd ever get to see in real life; mostly because the tours don't take you everywhere Chinnery was able to go. You'll see F-105s, F-102s, F-100s, F-4s, A-7s, F-111s, B-52s, even A-10s, C-141s, F-14s, F-15s and F-16s. Plus other, much older aircraft, helicopters, utility aircraft and aircraft types too numerous to mention. There's a fine section on the early history of the base, and descriptions of the storage process, too. I think you'll like it.
Rating: 5
Summary: A great coffee table book
Comment: This book has much detailed information on the history of the storage yard at Davis-Monthan AFB, in Tucson Arizona. Seeing has to how I am an aircraft nut (Mostly military), I got a kick out of the fact that all the pictures were color! And the photos are almost all of aircraft. Rare aircraft included are the XB-19, B-36, RA-5C, C-133 and the NB-52E. The only problem is that just one photo of each of the above aircraft is in the book. In addition, the book also has details about how the aircraft are preserved in storage and what uses they have at the yard. Not all are scrapped or salvaged of parts, but some go on to civilian lives as firebombers or transports and some are sold to warbird collectors. For example, The Pima Air-Space Museum has many aircraft that are on loan from D-M (Then again, it is very near the base). This has to be the best book ever on the place that is mistakenly called "The Boneyard".
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Title: Warship Boneyards by Kit Bonner, Carolyn Bonner ISBN: 0760308705 Publisher: Motorbooks International Pub. Date: July, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Military Aircraft Boneyards by Nicholas A. Veronico, A. Kevin Grantham, Scott Thompson ISBN: 0760308209 Publisher: Motorbooks International Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Forgotten Fleet: The Mothball Navy by Daniel Madsen ISBN: 1557505438 Publisher: United States Naval Inst. Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $36.95 |
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Title: Forgotten Fields of America : World War II Bases and Training, Then and Now - Vol. 2 by Lou Thole, Pictorial Histories ISBN: 1575100517 Publisher: Pictorial Histories Publishing Co. Inc. Pub. Date: February, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: World War II Sites in the United States: A Tour Guide & Directory by Richard E. Osborne ISBN: 0962832413 Publisher: Riebel-Rogue Pub Co Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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