Airplane homes

July 19, 2003 12:53 AM

A pole in the ground + an old Plane on top of it = home sweet home. A company in Tennesee is selling old airplanes as homes on ebay. I wonder if the new homeowners ever get tired of eating those little packets of peanuts every night.
posted by mathowie (14 comments total)

That's cool as hell. Sign me up immediately.
posted by dong_resin at 1:21 AM on July 19, 2003

Cool! There was a site a while ago documenting a guy's conversion of a 727 into a home. It appears to be gone now, but the wayback machine still has some of it.
posted by Nothing at 3:45 AM on July 19, 2003

Home & Garden TV has a great show called Extreme Homes that would cover something like this. I know they had a home in a hangar once.

I dunno about this...I have trouble staying on a plane for a few hours during a flight, those damn teeny windows. And I'm not sure the times don't call for homes that are a little bit more pedestrian but slightly more secure.
posted by madamjujujive at 4:29 AM on July 19, 2003

And, suddenly, your neighbors begin accumulating the largest collection of anti-aircraft artillery memorabilia...
posted by Katemonkey at 5:04 AM on July 19, 2003

There was a fantastic cocktail lounge in a 1954 Lockheed Super G Constellation airliner on top of a restaurant near where I grew up. I always wanted to live in it and spent hours thinking about how I would decorate it. I gave up on the idea after I realized I would go broke buying window treatments.
posted by iconomy at 6:38 AM on July 19, 2003

Screw the 727, I want a missile silo.
posted by monju_bosatsu at 8:42 AM on July 19, 2003

I wouldn't mind living in one of those, I guess. But the hassles of going through security and the metal detectors ever effing time I wanted to go inside would be a major drag.
posted by crunchland at 9:28 AM on July 19, 2003

hey Nothing, it moved here!
posted by quonsar at 10:24 AM on July 19, 2003

But the hassles of going through security and the metal detectors ever effing time I wanted to go inside would be a major drag

Not to mention having to worry about what buttons you have on.
posted by TedW at 2:21 PM on July 19, 2003

Worst photoshop ever
posted by Joeforking at 4:13 PM on July 19, 2003

i respectfully disagree.
posted by quonsar at 4:41 PM on July 19, 2003

iconomy - I grew up very close to that same restaurant and I cant tell you how much seeing that picture took me back.
thank you
posted by uftheory at 5:36 PM on July 19, 2003

You did too, uftheory? I thought it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen and now it's not there anymore - it's so disorienting whenever I drive by, still.
posted by iconomy at 7:08 PM on July 19, 2003

This plane...it rotates?
posted by Ogre Lawless at 12:32 PM on July 21, 2003