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Thursday, 25 February 2010

Some Bridges That Carry Airport Runways Over Highways

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Buildings In Old Planes

You can pick up an old Boeing jetliner for the price of scrap, and turn it into the ultimate trailer home. Here are some of our favorite examples of recycled planes used as houses and restaurants, including a former Irish airliner that ended up as a bar in Syria and a Jumbo Jet that is a restaurant in South Korea.

Boeing 307 Staroliner House Boat

747 Turned Into a Restaurant in South Korea
Here stands World’s fist Boeing 747 (numbered N747-10) turned into a restaurant and still maintaining its identity of a profitable venture. With no answer to how the aircraft was transported to this site, it claims to accommodate over 150 tables.

Cantilevered 727 Home

The 127-foot Boeing 727 is designed to seat nearly 200. Joanne Ussery's seats far fewer, but the accommodations are much more comfortable -- plenty of legroom, home cooking, peace and quiet, a hot tub in the cockpit, and the "fasten seat belts" light is never lit. But there's only one destination, the small town of Benoit, Mississippi, population 641. And don't bother ringing for the flight attendant; it's strictly self-service.

Boeing 727-200 Home

Iran-Contra Cargo Plane Converted into a Bar
There's nothing like drinking overpriced liquor in the remnants of one of the US's biggest scandals! The cargo plane at El Avion is built around a 1954 Model, Fairchild C-123 that was (hold on, it gets confusing) abandoned by (depending who you ask) the CIA/Contras/"A private group led by a retired United States Army major general" at the San Jose airport in 1986 as a result of the plane's sister plane (an identical Fairchild C-123), being shot down over Nicaragua carrying (again, depending who you ask) CIA "operative"/cargo hauler/private citizen Eugene Hasenfus. Hasenfus' capture by the Sandinista army led to this:
and as a result the plane is now a great place spend money on drinks.
Cost: The food is slightly more expensive than other places and didn't seem all that memorable for me...but then again, El Avion is about the great view and the plane, so that's forgivable.

Former Irish Air Lingus 707, now a restaurant in Syria

Now Dismantled Lockheed Constellation Restaurant

Max Power Aerospace Aircraft Homes from $200K
Max Power is offering Boeing aircraft reused as private residences. Below is an illustration of a B-737 reused as a home. The aircraft are mounted on a steel column and bearing so the whole airplane weathervanes, pointing into the wind.

F-28 aircraft restaurant in Bangladesh
Opened in Dhaka inside the shell of the F-28 aircraft that crashed near Sylhet airport .
The restaurant is the brainchild of Captain Mostafa Aolad, a Bangladeshi expatriate pilot in London, who owns two such restaurants in the UK.

"I always dreamed of doing something for my country. And this is a small initiative to fulfill my dream. I believe this restaurant will attract tourists," said Captain Mostafa.
The atmosphere around the restaurant is similar to that of an airport. One has to reach the restaurant through a runway.

This runway take the guests into a terminal building with a 3,000 square feet reception area where the guests would enjoy music and can take light food.

Recycled Plane Pavilion

Using a 60-foot-long section of a Boeing 747 plane, Lot-Ek’s Student Pavilion at the University of Washington in Seattle turns fuselage into function.

The plane section is placed on a sloping site overlooking Lake Union. The Pavilion provides space for both work and play, and is supported mid-air by a steel pipe cradle system, providing access to the interior via a steel ramp. Despite the inherently rigid nature of the interior space, Lot-Ek proposed a flexible seating system that makes the space multi-functional and surprisingly comfortable. While the raw structural qualities of the fuselage are highlighted (its aluminum rib cage and metal grated floor), the rotating floor/seating systems adapts to accommodate three different positions/needs: floor, bench, and lounge.
This flexibility is ideal for a student gathering space, allowing every activity from lectures and parties to performances and movie screenings. Adding to the entertainment possibilities, the Pavilion is networked with Ethernet connections, and integrated projection screens can be pulled down along the perimeter of the entire fuselage, transforming the space into a “face-to-face” theater.

BIGGEST AIRCRAFT

Designed by World War I aviator Konstantin Kalinin with a wingspan greater than a B-52's and a much greater wing area, the K-7 was one of the biggest aircraft built before the jet age. It was only one engine short of the B-52 as well, having the curious arrangement of six pulling on the wing leading edge and one pushing at the rear.
The K-7's very brief first flight showed up instability and serious vibration caused by the airframe resonating with the engine frequency. The solution to this 'flutter' was thought to be to shorten and strengthen the tail booms, little being known then about the natural frequencies of structures and their response to vibration. On the 11th flight, during a speed test, the port tailboom vibrated, fractured, jammed the elevator and caused the giant aircraft to plough into the ground, killing 15.
Undaunted by this disaster, Kalinin's team began construction of two further K-7s in a new factory, but the vicissitudes of Stalin's Russia saw the project abandoned, and in 1938 the arrest and execution of Kalinin on trumped up espionage and sabotage charges.

SOLAR AIRPLANES

The solar powered aircraft, the Sunseeker II will fly over Europe following its featured presentation at the e-flight expo(April 2-5)). The tour will be the largest journey for the Sunseeker since 1990, when its predecessor, Sunseeker I, crossed the United States in 21 flights, with 121 hours in the air. The new Sunseeker II has improved for better performance, including wing modifications, an increase in surface area for solar cells, more powerful motor and new lithium polymer batteries. The tour will cover 8 countries: Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, Italy, France and Spain. Designed by aircraft mastermind Eric Raymond.