A cockpit faces an endless desert landscape; a gangway stands in the
middle of an abandoned expanse. At the vast aircraft storage grounds in
the middle of the desert in the southwestern United States, hundreds of
discarded aircraft stand in waiting and contemplate their fate. Normally
strictly isolated from the outside world, the storage grounds opened
their gates for this project by German photographer Werner Bartsch. In
his impressive images we find an ancient specimen of the world's best
known transport aircraft Dakota as well as retired airliners like the
Boeing Stratocruiser and even President Eisenhower's Air Force One,
built in 1948.