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The Boeing 727-200 Airplane Home
Alien54 writes "As seen at AirplaneHomes.com: 'We are offering a B727-200 aircraft for reuse as a home. It is our intention to deliver and set the airplane up on a column and bearing arrangement so it weathervanes. We have tried to define what we consider a "basic" airplane home. This project has all the complexities of a normal home and we will try to deliver and install it to the buyers needs, within the following limitations.' Be sure to also check out the owner's flight manual for more technical details."
Boeing's business must have gotten REALLY bad after 9/11...
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If ya buy one of these things. Are they going to have jet parks in Oklahoma to park these bad boys, put some primer on them, and put bricks under the missing wheels?
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It is our intention to deliver and set the airplane up on a column and bearing arrangement so it weathervanes.
Hm, this will be tons o fun in a hurricane or severe storm. Now, not only will you be able to lose power, you'll also get to experience the kind of nausea and vomiting that only being whipped around about a central axis point can provide!
- A.P.
"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
As for the neighbours, I would have to agree. You'd have to be pretty rich and eccentric already to not become the hated neighbour by this (i.e. you already are...)
Ok, so it's hurricane proof. But imagine what that pivoting base would do for you in a tornado. I hope they don't sell many of these in west Texas.
... to attract cute flightless chix into your shiny nest.
But that opportunity comes at a heavy price, not even getting into dollar figures: how many of us are used to changing our outlook (and I mean WYSIWYG through your actual windows) according to the wind direction.
Worst of all, when the going gets tough, you might find that your chick was nothing but a fair-weather friend!
Should invading one's peaceful neighbours be opposed, or rewarded with trade deals?
A couple of high school kids decide to be mischiveous and tie one end of a rope to your plane, the other end to a truck and do some donuts in your yard turning your home into a G-force simulator.
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The structure spins around, but the entrance is in the tail? If I go out to get the paper on a windy day, will I be stuck chasing my front door around for the following two hours?
A whole 727, probably up around 100,000 pounds stripped, on a 4' column?
I think I'll hold out, and make an offer on the second one.
The plane has been stripped of everything that can be sold for spare parts. What's the point of having an airplane if the cockpit has been gutted of the seats and instrument panels?
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What exactly am I supposed to type into Google to have this show up?
I think it's fairly obvious... any one of those things. Except for titty, which won't get you anywhere.
Yah, you say it isn't a problem, until you realize it IS a mobile home. Forgetting for a second that it's a 747...
-It's a tin can.
-It has wheels.
-It's not on them and never will be again.
-The dates you'll get by living there are nothing to brag about.
That, my friend, is a mobile home. The twister's acomin' son, and you're next!
You are checking your backups, aren't you?
...I just don't think this idea will fly.
Some terrorist crashes a building into your plane!
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
You could use it as a guest home on your missle silo estate. (I don't need the karma, find that story yourself. Valuable prizes!)
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
For some reason, I can see this somehow being connected with Terry Gilliam. The concept of a home needing a braking mechanism is just surreal.
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Yea but only in 330 mile per hour winds... with the flaps down.... but by then you have bigger issues.......
Julius Caesar - Act I, Scene i: "What mean'st thou by that? Mend me, thou saucy fellow!"
If a car got hit by "lightening", that would certainly give it lift! :^P
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
And he won't need a parachute to exit the rear stairs this time...
When you can buy one of the space shuttles and convert it to your home. Nothing beats having a huge robotic arm lifting in the groceries...
Calling all Pilots and cabin crews. We now offer an oppertunity to Work From Home.
Oh, like you HAVEN'T entered "rotating titty house" into a search engine before....
/sarcastic :)
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
Did you guys know they just took 'gullible' out of the dictionary? No, seriously!
I mean, come on - can't you tell a photoshopped image when you see one? (and it's a pretty bad one at that).
And the text just reeks of '16 year old's prank'.
Excerpt:
Question: How does the drinking water run up, waste water run down and the electric wires hook to the airplane if it spins around? Won't the wires get twisted?
Answer: We use a device called a multi-port swivel.
A 'multi-port swivel'? Sure it's not a 'flux capacitor' you're talking about?
And the fact that the wings are perfect for parties of 71 people or more, and can be refitted with railings.
To *anyone* who took this seriously...you need hitting with my 2x4 cluestick.
-Nano.
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