Lifelong layover: Old jets being recycled as homes

[sinkingfeeling]

http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/16/12605486-lifelong-layover-old-jets-being-recycled-as-homes?

Picture a packed tarmac at any municipal airport then add grass, trees, streets, cars and pedestrians. Now, you’re basically catching the breeze of Bruce Campbell’s ultimate recycling concept: a full subdivision of retired and refurbished commercial jets, looking exactly as they did when they soared seven miles high.

And there’s a ready supply of aging, soon-to-be retired jets, both midsize and jumbo, that could be revamped into homes -- if you have the proper space (Campbell lives on 10 acres) and the available cash (he paid $100,000 for his 727). About 20,000 commercial jets currently are in service globally. “We do estimate that every year over the next 20 years, between 2 and 2.5 percent of the world’s fleet will need to be replaced,” said Randy Tinseth, vice president of marketing for Boeing Commercial Airplanes in Seattle. That equates to 500 jets being grounded for good yearly, or about one every 17 hours.

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Neat slide show of the plane/home

[longship]

1. We'll be serving small bags of nuts twice each year.

Sounds like a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe nightmare. (The space port puts travelers into suspended animation due to the lack of a sufficient supply of snacks on board -- for millions of years.)

Love Douglas Adams. He got so many things right.

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. cool. Saw a plane that had been remade into a bar on on of those extreme house shows

[cbayer]

3. What a great idea.

You could make them fully self-sufficient homes with solar and wind power.

[Ikonoklast]

4. Solar panels fitted to the wing surfaces.

A rotary windmill attached to the tail.

Take out one thity-foot roof section, glass it over, instant greenhouse.

You know, that would be kind of cool.

[snooper2]

5. as long as the wind doesn't get a hold of it

[cbayer]

7. And tons of room for solar water heating, one of the biggest energy hogs you can have.

I am really liking this and the pictures are great. Reminds me of my boat.

[snooper2]

9. You can store your yard tools in the intakes for the jets

[Ikonoklast]

10. Put a grate inside for wood/charcoal with racks over the grates at differing levels,

louvered panels for air flow control over the ends, vent the top with a ten-foot tall stovepipe, and you got one hellacious barbecue/smokehouse!

[Comrade_McKenzie]

6. Excellent. I know they've been making homes out of used cargo containers...

We could build entire neighborhoods out of things like this for the homeless.

[msongs]

8. not so cost effective to most people nt