stackyFACTSWhen a massive airliner retires, it flies to massive, heavily guarded desert boneyards in the American Southwest. The dry, arid air perfectly preserves the metal, allowing engineers to harvest million-dollar engines and crucial spare parts to keep the rest of the global fleet safely in the sky.
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