Speaking of Tucson — for those of us who consider aircraft living breathing beings (and what’s wrong with that?) Tucson can be a difficult place to visit. First you have all the planes sitting at Marana. Then there is Pima Park. But the most disturbing thing was flying into Tucson and looking down on a number of dismembered aircraft there near the end of the runway — where a company is dismantling them for parts. There, with part of its tail off and part of a wing was a Legend Airlines DC-9 — the rest of the paint job looking as good as it did when the aircraft flew back in 2000.

I don’t care how many times you see an aircraft with a wing missing or an engine gone — I still find it a rather unsettling sight.