If you are an Aircraft junkie- no pun intended- you may want to plan your next road  trip to stop through the Mojave Desert in California.  It is the site of  an airplane grave yard. It is known better as an airline bone yard.

These aircraft not quite dead yet as they are hauled to remote corners of these vast desert aircraft spaces and stripped of parts that can be used to service newer models of the same or similar types of aircraft.

Once they have been stripped of all usable parts, these planes are sold to scrap metal dealers who take apart these planes to get the most they can for the scrap metal.

There always has been something quite mythical and mystical about flight and flying. These airliners and airplanes are surely the mythical and mystical creatures that take to the sky. This is what makes the Mojave Desert Aircraft Bone Yard quite an eerie and haunting place.

If you stand there for a while you can hear the creaking of doors and the sound of the wind whistling in and out of these now dysfunctional fuselages. One can almost imagine that these aircraft are having conversations with each other as they sigh and groan telling each other of their days of glory. Days when they would grace the skies and carry people and cargo to all corners of the earth and now they lie downtrodden never to grace the skies again.

For some people this little corner of what was in heaven now on earth can be somewhat of a spiritual place, for others it is a place of great intrigue. It is not possible to get to close to the planes as many of them are still functional for parts harvesting. Yes, every single aircraft is a proud organ donor.

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