Noel Kerns
Crash Site
Dismantled Boeing B-52E Stratofortress, Edwards Air Force Base, Southern California.
Fun title , but it's actually not a crash site at all, though it does kinda resembles one. The historical details on this aircraft, serial # 0-70119, can be read in their entirety here, but in short, this decommissioned aircraft was placed out on what's known as the Photo Resolution Range at Edwards AFB back in the 1970's, and used as an aerial reconnaissance test-target. It was destroyed in 1991 for START treaty compliance with the Russians, and is now just a sorry collection of disembodied components set along the southern edge of the Rogers Dry Lake Bed in the Mojave Desert.
An interesting fact about all these jets placed on static display out on the desert fringes of Edwards Air Force Base. They're all technically in the inventory of Air Force Flight Test Center Museum, also located at Edwards AFB, with one even having a small, fallen-down plastic sign in the vicinity stating, as I recall, something to the effect that it's unlawful to mess with any of the "archaeological" exhibits on Edwards AFB property. I put archaeological in quotes because I'm not sure how these airframes count as archaeological exhibits, but that's roughly what it said.
Night, full moon, X-2000 flashlight on Joshua tree in foreground.
Crash Site
Dismantled Boeing B-52E Stratofortress, Edwards Air Force Base, Southern California.
Fun title , but it's actually not a crash site at all, though it does kinda resembles one. The historical details on this aircraft, serial # 0-70119, can be read in their entirety here, but in short, this decommissioned aircraft was placed out on what's known as the Photo Resolution Range at Edwards AFB back in the 1970's, and used as an aerial reconnaissance test-target. It was destroyed in 1991 for START treaty compliance with the Russians, and is now just a sorry collection of disembodied components set along the southern edge of the Rogers Dry Lake Bed in the Mojave Desert.
An interesting fact about all these jets placed on static display out on the desert fringes of Edwards Air Force Base. They're all technically in the inventory of Air Force Flight Test Center Museum, also located at Edwards AFB, with one even having a small, fallen-down plastic sign in the vicinity stating, as I recall, something to the effect that it's unlawful to mess with any of the "archaeological" exhibits on Edwards AFB property. I put archaeological in quotes because I'm not sure how these airframes count as archaeological exhibits, but that's roughly what it said.
Night, full moon, X-2000 flashlight on Joshua tree in foreground.