Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/04/22/where-the-planes-are-parked.html
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tag “plains” 
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Flattening the take off curve.
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Look at those petri dishes sitting there. Just look at them.
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Pedant: there are only a couple of Jumbo jets, visible at 5:00 and again at 5:42, and they look like decommissioned United Airlines and Qantas (maybe).
But good golly, that’s a lot of airplanes!
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The rain on planes falls mainly in the plain.
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I kept thinking about just how much money all those parked aircraft represent. Wow.
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Victorville is a long-term plane graveyard and a lot of the planes parked off to the side are permanently decommissioned or were there long before the pandemic.
The planes without identifiable airline markings (particularly the 747s with the blue or red tails) are almost certainly permanently decommissioned. And Southwest had fleets of decommissioned older planes there at least two years ago (https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/88ie9z/twentyeight_737s_from_southwest_airlines_await/) and grounded 737 MAXes at Victorville for a year or so (https://thepointsguy.com/news/heres-where-airlines-are-storing-the-boeing-737-max/) before the pandemic.
I’m guessing most of those Delta planes on the runway are parked for the pandemic, though.
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Same here. Each plane sitting there not flying thousands of people around the country every week, and those thousands of people not staying at hotels, not eating dinner at restaurants, not buying stuff, maybe not paying their rent, etc. etc. This has long since gotten too big to wrap one’s head around, at least for me.
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Many of those planes will never take off again. New times, new normal.
And every single cruise ship needs to be turned into an underwater reef.
Happy Earth Day! (Earth is winning this one)
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FTFY. Where I live is a few blocks away from a major cruise ship port and the impact on local tourism is significant. I’m always concerned that the tourists coming into my neighborhood are potentially bringing
Legionnaires Disease or other virulent pathogens with them.
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Boeing knows all about parking planes that are not needed:
Not the only place they are doing this, its also happening at Pittsburgh and other airports. No reports if the number of plans have increased or decreased since this footage was taken:
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I wonder if older, analog propeller footage makes fun of newer digital propeller footage for looking dorky, cuz boy it sure does.
The devil in me says make a few low passes with a long chain hanging down and cause some mayhem.
Looking at the satellite photo on google maps, it looks like this is also where they’ve parked those VW diesels that can’t be economically made compliant with emission regulations.
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