You could just stand there and pretend your flight is delayed.

...if I owned land, I'd buy one and convert it into a studio-like house.

I would equip mine with a foghorn and just sit in it all day, HONK TOOOOOT.

Can you make cell phone calls from it?

How the heck would you get the plane to your land?

I remember watching an episode of 20/20 about ten years ago where some old woman in Florida purchased a used passanger jet for about 20k (737 I believe) and coverted it into a luxuery home. She turned to the cockpit into an awesome bathroom/ spa complete with hot tub.

Will it blend?

And for the record, i'd never trust anything with TWA on it, in the air or on the ground. Pass.

And for the record, i wouldn't trust anything from TWA, whether it be in the air or on the ground. Pass.

is it powerchair accessible...

turn it into a disco in some vacation spot. I reckon you could rake in money with that, supposing the guys from whatever building commission want modest bribes;-)

@yogibimbi: actually not a bad idea

as long as disco means club or bar.... not that awful crap from the 70s

@yogibimbi....
20+ years ago they did the disco thing in a 737 in Buffalo, NY. ...Club 737... or was it 707 ?
Anyway..It was out near the airport and it was actually fairly fun, considering the cocktail waitresses were in flight attendant uniforms.

If I had a house, I would quite happily sell it and any unwary family members to get one of those babies. And is it me, or does $100000 seem very cheap for what you get?

You could buy this, set it up on a piece of cheap land and make a trailer home out of it. If you could get some old broken down engines, then you could leave them out in front in the lawn.

You'd be the king of all trailer trash!

@harshmellow:
Dude... you can can use a cell phone on a fully fuctioning plane....
What were you thinking? Faraday cage?

Well, it seems like a good idea, but by the time you get it transported to your land, secured as required by your city, permits for all that, water, power, sewer, you're in for over $200,000 total easy. Then, you will easily spend $50,000 on the inside before furnishing, if not more. The whole thing would need to be inspected by the city for electrical etc. etc.


Not to mention this would have to be on one hell of a plot of land. So you could fit the plane, and be far enough away from any complainers.


It would be kick ass to have like a multi-level wood deck surrounding the thing with a car parking area underneath, and have a long deck over the top. BBQ grill area on one of the wings, hot tub on the other, with open-air pass-thru on that exit row. Keep one of the shitters the same.

Two words:

Soul Plane

I get pissed off at the people down the street with an old car up on blocks...I can't imagine if they had a 747 up on blocks in their front yard.

I think museums might be all over this. How cool would it be to walk into one of these and look around, gutted? Not to mention people that have never seen a plane this big in real life would be impressed with how massive they really are (I have flown on 747's more than my fair share and am still impressed when I see/board them).

@aec007: I just thought he was making a joke.

I just want to say good luck, we're all counting on you.

Party bus. That's all. JUST a party bus. Or you could open up the most kick-ass bar on this side of the free world.

First Jive Dude: Shit man, that honky mus' be messin' my old lady... got to be runnin' cold upside down his head. You know?
Second Jive Dude: Hey home, I can dig it. You know he ain't gonna lay no mo' big rap up on you man.
First Jive Dude: I say hey sky, s'other s'ay I wan say?
Second Jive Dude: UH...
First Jive Dude: Pray to J I get the same ol' same ol'.
Second Jive Dude: Eh. Yo knock yourself a pro slick, gray matter live performas down now take TCB'in man.
First Jive Dude: Hey, you know what they say... "See a broad, to get that booty yak 'em.
First Jive Dude, Second Jive Dude: Lay 'er down 'n smack 'em yak 'em!"
First Jive Dude: Cold got to be. You know? Shiiiiit.

Randy: Can I get you something?
Second Jive Dude: 'S'mofo butter layin' me to da' BONE! Jackin' me up... tight me!
Randy: I'm sorry, I don't understand.
First Jive Dude: Cutty say 'e can't HANG!
Jive Lady: Oh stewardess! I speak jive.
Randy: Oh, good.
Jive Lady: He said that he's in great pain and he wants to know if you can help him.
Randy: All right. Would you tell him to just relax and I'll be back as soon as I can with some medicine?
Jive Lady: Jus' hang loose, blood. She gonna catch ya up on da' rebound on da' med side.
Second Jive Dude: What it is, big mama? My mama no raise no dummies. I dug her rap!
Jive Lady: Cut me some slack, Jack! Chump don' want no help, chump don't GET da' help!
First Jive Dude: Say 'e can't hang, say seven up!
Jive Lady: Jive ass dude don't got no brains anyhow! Hmmph!

Elaine: Would you gentlemen care to order your dinners?
First Jive Dude: Bet, babe. Slide a piece o' da' porter. Drink side, run da' java.
Second Jive Dude: Hey lookie here. I can dig grease 'n chompin' on some butter and draggin' through the garden.

@aec007: Nope, just making a joke...kinda like the joke they tell on a real plane. I don't buy that cell phones would bring down a plane or interfere with the communications systems (Yes, I saw the Mythbusters LOL). I just think they haven't figured out how to monetize it yet...oh and the FCC hasn't approved it. Judging by some of the people I sit next to on the plane, I am happy that you can't use them on planes. Once they allow it, there's gonna be brawls...

But since you mention the Faraday Cage...will the gutted plane still diffuse a lightning strike? Or does it have to be fully functional (and/or running) to have all its lightning-proof goodness?

I wonder if I still has that big inflatable slide thing. That could be fun. Also, mount flat screens in the cockpit windows and make MS Flight Simulator fun :)

The perfect prop to reenact Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.

id do the whole thing with blue shag, master bedroom upstairs, a giant TV in the cockpit, and some track sliders that i could attach loops of rope to so i can just get a running start, grab on, pick up my feet and bam! im at the other end of it. It's a perfect space for a table shuffleboard, pool table and many other, various tablelike fixtures. then for parties i'd make everyone wear swim gear and i'd put a huge slip n slide down the center. skylights in the roof, bunk beds for guests at the back, a huge bar, and the whole thing is lit up with christmas lights. yeah.

was it the Beryl Hagen character in Cryptonomicon that had the dissected 747 in the ceiling of his home outside of Seattle?

Call Nancy Rubins.

Wait actually this is great potential for club experience. It could be called "The Flight Club." and you could get another one and hook it up like a T to it and seriously, if its lit up well and has the music, hot and rich people will walk in.

In New York I used to go to this club called avalon. Its a club in a church. They totally redesigned the insides, but outside you wouldn't be able to tell from the latter. Well except for all the fliers thrown all over the place. Gotta love it.

The discussion ends here:

12 inflatable slides.... wheeeeee!!!!!!!

Make a giant windtunnel, then run in and have fun!

I'd turn it into a gay bar called "Le Fuselage" and it would attract happy humpin' homos from the four corners of the Mutha F***ing earth.

@Krondonian: It's a freakin' steal, but the fine print is what you'd pay to move the thing. You wouldn't believe the red tap involved in such a project!

@NNTPgrip:

with the jive lady being played by barbra billingsly
a.k.a. the beaver's mom!!!!!!!!!

lol

Curved IMAX projection screen mounted around the cockpit. Microsoft flight sim running in the cockpit. Off we go........

or

Fill the whole thing with water - and make the worlds freakiest aquarium! Reverse wreck diving here I come!

I would love to make one of these into a home; however, moving one would cost more than the purchase price. 6,49 meters = 21,2926509 feet fuselage diameter! When's the last time you saw anyone driving down the highway with a 21' load?