Recycled Houses: Airplanes!

If we don't eventually find another way of powering airplanes, I suspect that peak oil will either eliminate air travel, or reduce it to super luxury status. What will happen then to the vast fleets of jet planes around the world? As you can see, some people have been thinking of new uses for planes for some time.

This lady, JoAnn Ussery, converted this old Boeing 727 for about $30,000 - most of that being the transportation cost of relocating the plane.  She's appeared on television in 28 countries (including Letterman in the US) thanks to her domestic audacity.  I include this smaller pic below because it shows some interiors:

There are tons of these out there. Here's another in the popular plane crashing through house genre:

And, for some reason, this one reminds me of the scene from Spielburg's War of the Worlds, where they wake up to find a crashed airplane on the front yard of the suburban home:

OK, it's not crashed, but it still looks pretty odd on that lawn (the blocks under the front landing gear look a little sketchy, too IMHO).

Now, imagine what squatters could do with a whole airport's worth of planes.

Posted by Paul Rivers, 10:26pm, 12/6/2010

Sources:

• " 7 Brilliant Building Conversion Projects: Superb Examples of Architectural Adaptive Reuse : WebUrbanist." WebUrbanist. http://weburbanist.com/2008/06/22/7-examples-recycled-urban-architecture/ (accessed December 6, 2010).
• Campbell, Bruce. "AirplaneHome.com - A Boeing 727-200 Home Project." AirplaneHome.com - A Boeing 727-200 Home Project. http://www.airplanehome.com/ (accessed December 6, 2010).
• Hollak, Joseph. "The JoAnn Ussery “plane home”." josephhollak.com. josephhollak.com/2010/02/the-plane-home/ (accessed December 6, 2010).
• Pelger, Ned. "More Plane Houses « Construction Knowledge Blog." Construction Knowledge Blog. http://constructionknowledge.wordpress.com/2010/03/11/more-plane-houses/ (accessed December 6, 2010).
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