Last year there was a story

[Horse with no Name]

Where our military went to the desert in Arizona I believe it was, and got several helicopters that were in a graveyard so to speak, and rebuilt them again for use in Iraq. Does someone have that link?
I am having to wonder if this is one of the reasons we have had a glut of helicopters going down?

[bananas]

1. I remember the story

but I don't think it's related to what's happening.

[kansasblue]

2. The 'bone yard'

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/xplanes/boneyard.html


The U.S. military has long been expert at disposing of used and obsolete aircraft. Between January 1940 and August 1945, for example, American companies built nearly 300,000 aircraft, most of them for military use. Roughly half of those outlasted World War II and became surplus, far more than the military deemed necessary to defend the nation. The government needed to get rid of these "white elephants with wings," as one propaganda pamphlet put it—and it did, in several ways.