AIRPLANE CONVERTED to Functional HOME for Protection from ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTERS - YouTube

*Knocking* Hello! You must be Dylan. I am. Welcome to my 727 home, come on in. sterile procedure

Sterile procedure though. Your feet are dirty, but that rug is dirty so your feet on that rug is perfect,

but this area is clean and so you'll need slippers. Your pair of

slippers there which you're welcome to use.

Hi, I'm Bruce Campbell and this is my home.

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When I was young I didn't want a mortgage. I could have purchased a home

and children mortgage like most people do, but I was happy enough living in a

very humble and very inexpensive mobile home and saved money and invested.

My intention was to wait until I could buy a home with cash. Then I would never be

tied down to the shackles of debt. By that time I had stopped thinking in

provincial terms. Aerospace technology seemed like a wonderful option. This is a

home which can fly at 900 km/h at 11 kilometers high in the sky. They retire at

the rate of about three per day. My sense is that the majority of those probably

almost all of them are flown to death camps and generally promptly executed

promptly shredded and that's a shame.

Hi I'm Bruce Campbell and this is my Boeing

727-200 jetliner home.The aircraft did not land here of course. It had to be

moved here from a site close to the Hillsboro Airport. Wayne Griffin house

movers and Swanson trucking managed to move the aircraft from the staging site

next to the Hillsborough Airport through this path which you can see was cut in

by forests up to this site. Deferred for a long time is the permanent support

structure for the front landing gear. The front landing gear will remain intact on

its natural rubber and the support structure will be made of concrete.

It'll terminate at the top with a ball shape but the idea is to enable the

aircraft to dance freely in an earthquake. After an earthquake, newscasters

never say, "Oh gosh it's such a shame all the aircraft at the airport were badly

damaged and there's so many vehicles which are shaken and damaged." That never

happens. These are independent vessels. They're on

their own suspension system. They ride it out. It's no big deal.

No damage occurs unless something falls onto them.

You can see a stanchion which provides services. This is the normal Boeing service door for water and I

expanded its functionality a bit by adding an electricity connection as well

and a telephone connection which is superfluous really in a cell phone era.

My water comes from down there. So I have a natural water well, it's gorgeous water.

It's a real blessing. And you can see the well structure. There's a blue pressure

tank. If you look carefully you can see a jack point. I've removed the cap of the

jack point. The aircraft can be supported there and in fact that's

probably what we'll do. We'll probably build a relatively narrow support

structure, right about here. We must be very careful of course because if the

aircraft falls during fabrication it could be deadly, probably would be deadly

if we're underneath at the time. This is the service door for the aft lavs for

both of them. So there's one sewer connection for both lavs and then there's a

large 4-inch round connector. It's just a quarter turn connector. You put it on

and twist it one quarter turn it's sealed. This is a gray water drain mast

and it just drains out onto the ground and when the aircraft was in service it

drained into the air. On rare occasions I've had conversations with people who

assume that all the water just is dumped into the air. That's certainly not true.

Sewage water is not just dumped in the air from jet liners. And my air stairs

and the air stairs retract and extend but not through the native mechanism at

this time. Hopefully I'll be able to restore that mechanism but it was badly

damaged by the salvage company and the components removed. I've been able to

reacquire the components in this case via the salvage companies. They were kind

enough to replace those after we had a discussion. If you go to the Wikipedia

747 four hundred page, you'll see that it implies that

once the engines are removed the rest of the aircraft has essentially zero value.

The real concept for Humanity to pursue is to take just one small step forward

from the death camps and turn them into aircraft home development parks. The

logistics are almost identical. Once they land, taxi or tow them to wherever is

appropriate for the aircraft. The quarter-turn and the water is connected.

Quarter-turn and the sewer is connected. Push plug and electrical power is

connected. Now then a few minor modifications and you are ready to go.

So, here it is. This is my shower. My very crude primitive shower and I intended to finish

it. Once it became functional as a shower then suddenly the priority dropped way

down compared to other things. My lavatory. Guest lavatory. This aircraft

is equipped with three lavs. The toilets are only functional in the two aft lavs.

The forward toilet is not functional. The aft galley my aft galley is filled with

all kinds of industrial or construction related material at the moment. In the

course of the front landing gear support structure fabrication I'm trying to keep

as much mass aft as I can. At some point or other it will evolve into

either a laundry room or for some other purpose or maybe a little kitchen.

I don't know. I'll let evolution take its course.

This is the aft cargo compartment below us. Boeing says if

you lose a one ounce sugar packet, well I think Boeing says this, I heard this

someplace I'm pretty sure it's true, thirty sure it's true. If you lose a one

ounce sugar packet in a seat cushion for one year your aircraft will have

burned an extra four liters or about one gallon of fuel during that year hauling

that sugar packet around. The mass is critical. Boeing would never

use something as heavy as these acrylic floor panels. These are mine. These were

something that I just had. My workbench which is terribly cluttered right now

leaving me almost no actual work area and lots of projects. An instrument to repair.

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My makeshift kitchen. My five decade old refrigerator. Serving cart, you can see

that's a bonified 727 serving cart which is filled with food. Good food and

bad food, but filled with food. That's basically all my food storage.

That's enough to last me about four months just on my own. This aircraft

entered service when Neil Armstrong said, "That's one small step for a man. One giant leap for mankind."

That was 1969 of course and that was the first year of operation for this aircraft so it was a long time ago.

This is an original lighting structure. This is original with this aircraft. These are

not original of course. These come from China. Total power consumption with

the original incandescent implementation was about one and a quarter kilowatts.

These are about 300 watts total so a lot of power saving. It'll get better because

eventually I'll replace these with individually regulated LED bulbs.

This is my futon sofa. It folds flat if I need space for two, which occurs from time to

time. A working system which I really don't use too much. My nomad lifestyle.

Very crude, very cheap suitcase. This is the landing gear, the main landing gear

bay. You can see that there are a couple of view ports.

You can see two red lines which are lined up. If the lines are lined up the

gear is down and locked. So this is basically my living area at the moment

again because I'm keeping mass aft as best I can

until the fabrication of the front landing gear support structure is

finished, which I hope will be within a month. Emergency exit doors. Right wing is

a frequent work site and recreational site for me. It's also our concert on a wing site.

Forward lavatory. We have water, but the toilet's not functional and will not be

functional because it's not connected to a disposal conduit. And flight deck.

And this was a three crew flight deck. It's obsolete now. There are no

jet liners I'm aware of in civil aviation, which have a

three-person crew. They're all two-person cruiser, but this aircraft had a flight

engineer. Things were more complicated in those days. He had his own station. He

monitored engines and other infrastructure for performance.

The display is not native to this aircraft. There were no flat panel displays in

the age of this aircraft. Flight deck was fully skeletonized by the salvage

company, but I've managed to restore some things. Maybe, very roughly, 35% I suppose

and yet I do love my bird with all of the flaws and all of the fundamental

foundational problems. It's still a wonderful living environment. Just the

sheer beauty of aerospace technology. The exhilaration. We trust our lives to these

things and generally we feel perfectly comfortable doing so. These are

sealed pressure canisters. Dust can't get in let alone insects or rodents.

Fact that they are sealed pressure canisters means they also float wonderfully.

They're good boats. This is a difficult concept for people to accept because our

experience is that when jet liners impact the water they sink.

Usually they do because they usually impact at high speed. They don't impact the water

on purpose so usually there's a very serious problem and

for a country like Nippon, like Japan,

that's important because tsunamis are a simple fact of life there. These are high

capacity structures. A 747-400, in an emergency, can hold

about a thousand people or as many people as can scurry to it will be

saved. It won't save all lives of course. Maybe only a modest proportion, but it will

save some lives. Any person who survives who would not have otherwise is a

big, big victory. So we have this unusual situation in which these lifeboats are

retired at the rate of about three per day, flown into death camps and

executed. And, we also have a country which desperately needs lifeboats. This

is a very valuable resource. It's an exhilarating resource. Let's not waste it.

Let's utilize it to its fullest potential. We're not doing that now.

There's opportunity here and I encourage anyone who is interested in this to go to

airplanehome.com and other resources and look at the logistics. Consider the

vision. Come visit me if you like. You are perfectly welcome to come visit.