HEAPING HULKS

Airplanes Like You've Never Seen Them

I STUMBLED UPON Upon RANSOM RIGGS' PHOTOGRAPHIC TOUR OF AN AIRCRAFT GRAVEYARD that sits in the Mojave Desert.

The Mojave Air and Spaceport is both active airport and purgatory for planes out of service. But it also serves as "boneyard" where the planes are "cannibalized for spare parts."

"It's not a delicate operation,'' writes Riggs. "The planes are ripped apart by big machines, torn into piles of fuselage that look, standing amidst them, like the aftermath of terrible crashes."

The scene looks right out of an apocalyptic movie. But I'll let him give you the tour. Check his piece out over at Mental Floss.