This is the story of a man turning a Boeing 727 into a full-fledged home, which recently placed a larger model on it, hoping to build a second home in Japan from a Boeing 747, the retired engineer spent six months inside.
From the outskirts of Portland, retired electricity engineer Bruce Campbell bought the plane for $ 100,000 and is now preparing to buy the larger version of the Boeing 747 before it becomes junk and thrown out. Campbell, 64, sees this as part of his goal in life .
Campbell is one of the few people around the world who have converted retired aircraft to a living space, or to innovative projects.
AFRA, an organization of world aviation industry leaders, including Boeing, which seeks to dismantle structures and engines between 1,200 and 1,800 aircraft worldwide, over the next three years. "We We want those structures to be reused in a more sustainable way, like Campbell did. "