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51.0 points by wallflower | karma 56532 | avg karma 8.26 2014-06-17 04:20:25+00:00 | hide | past | favorite | 15 comments



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IMHO a more cool home is the 'Wing House' - a house that uses a 747's wings as the roof: http://www.ilikearchitecture.net/2014/01/wing-house-david-he...

Wow! I always knew that 747 wings were huge, but this really puts it in perspective for me.

You should see how much space is really on the inside....

https://flic.kr/p/fGCVVd


Nice :)

Years ago you could buy an old submarine in the Netherlands for around $1 Moving costs excluded ofcourse.

But I always fantasized about putting it on a piece of land using it as a house.


Do you regret not doing it?

No, I was too young back then.

I do wonder what the realistic cost of moving it somewhere would be. Assuming, that you would like to take it out of water and put on a property somewhere. Would it be in hundreds of thousands of dollars? Or more like millions?

In the Netherlands you can buy various potential houses for 1 euro, like old water towers, factories or boats. The problem is that once bought, you are obliged to renovate the object (since most of them are considered "monuments"), and renovation costs can easily cost €500k to 1M. Also, because the objects are monuments, there are very strict rules on what you are permitted to change (like the color of the paint), making renovation very difficult or even impossible.

AirplaneHomeV2.com: A Boeing 747-400 Home Project: http://www.airplanehomev2.com (2014)

Does anyone know if there are pictures of the interior somewhere? I couldn't find anything on the website.

Found some here, but it's far from finished : http://www.airplanehome.com/Images/29Aug2006ImagesCatalog.ht...

> No helicopter can lift even a narrow body aircraft - they're simply too massive.

70 seats (82-pound per piece) weigh 2603 kg.

An Embraer 170 has an empty weight of 21140 kg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embraer_E-Jet_family

The Mil-26 can carry 20000 kg of cargo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mil_Mi-26

But maybe the wings would need to be removed first, as they would be aerodynamically inhibitive for helicopter flight.


Is it just me or does the structure (and I use that term loosely) supporting the front tires look sketchy?

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