Sick of neighborhoods where all the houses look the same? Tired of the lame options your builder is offering when you try to move on your dream home? Well, fret no more.
For the low, low price of $100,000 you can own this gutted TWA 747 hulk.
Now, never mind how you’d get it from the California desert to your lot, the bigger question we have for DT readers is this: How would you design your interior? First class lounge as widescreen TV room? Baggage compartment as finished basement for the family teens? Cockpit as breakfast nook?
Don’t worry about budget. Let your imagination run wild.
Over the next few days the DT staff will judge the best interior design idea. Winner gets a super-cool Military.com T-shirt and props in a future DT post.
(Gouge: Gismodo, CM)
– Ward
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$100k is dirt cheap. I would snap up that thing in a hurry. ;)
hey, Ward….gotta run, but I’ll think about it. Meanwhile, that pic just speaks P-O-O-L, don’t it?!!!!
Hang half of er over a 5000 foot cliff (make sure the rest in really secured) and than have a climing net/rope all the way to the bottem. Turn the wing fual area into a massive Moutain Dew Holding tank, and you have a climers paridaise. O ya the wings could be used to land your hang glider. Then all you need is a bid screen to watch the Colts play on.
What would I do?
Build a Surface Orbiter! An amphibious RV.
http://www.dobbertinhydrocar.com/Dobbertin%20Surface%20Orbiter.html
Gotta lose the wings though. Pity.
And if it’s too big for the roads, a houseboat like this…
http://www.wam-v.com/index.htm
Does it come in straw bale with compost toilets & recyclable water? I’m trying to save the environment.Sure doesn’t look well insulated,it must have a big carbon footprint.How much energy does it use? It would be great for testing rockets & missiles on though.
Somebody already did this, think it was Malibu, or Topanga Canyon. Made a home out of it; IIRC, they angled the wings on pylons and folded them back along the fuselage as a kind of outdoor mall. There’s probably pictures somewhere else on teh Internets.
I’m not much for interior decorating, but you could do anything inside: diner, coffee house, any kind of retail. Make a nice machine shop, aviation parts facility, or ops shack for a rural airport. Probably wouldn’t be too hard to get an FAA grant to do it, either. The freak factor would get it to the top of the pile.
After that, hell: Airport restaurant, disco, bar. Strip club.
I can see it now: “Top Flite: Adult Entertainment”.
Can anybody hook me up with some business plan software?
Guarantee: it will not be as cool as the house that HAS ALREADY BEEN DESIGNED AND BUILT from a 747. The Sundance Channel’s “Big Ideas for a Small Planet” did a feature on it:
http://www.sundancechannel.com/films/500203142
The 747 wasn’t used as is, of course; it was cut up and different parts used for different things. The final home was way cool in all respects.
Some more links on the Malibu house:
http://homes.wsj.com/buildimprove/20051111-frangos.html
http://www.syndesisinc.com/arch/rehwald.html
http://telstarlogistics.typepad.com/telstarlogistics/2007/09/do-you-want-to-.html
And other aircraft/structure conversion projects:
http://www.airplanehome.com/
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/03/mystery-photo-jet-in-your-backyard.html
How about a titan missile base?
http://cgi.ebay.com/Titan-Missile-Base-Central-Washington_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ1607QQihZ009QQitemZ190132455924QQrdZ1
16 UNDERGROUND buildings including
3 – 160′ Tall Missile Silo
3 – (4 story) Equipment Terminal Bldgs
2 – Antenna Silos
100′ Diameter Control Dome Bldg.
125′ Diameter Power Dome Bldg.