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Aircraft are stored at the Asia Pacific Aircraft Storage Facility (APAS) in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia, on Friday, Oct. 23, 2020. The APAS facility makes a strange and eerie sight, with the flat landscape punctuated by familiar tall tail fins against a brooding desert sky. More than 100 Aircraft are stored at the purpose-built facility adjacent to the airport, which can keep jets maintained and ready to be brought back into service when needed. Wire photography: David Gray—Bloomberg via Getty Images

The world’s grounded jumbo jets sit in this desert parking lot in the middle of nowhere

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