{"id":34437,"date":"2019-10-07T18:17:28","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T22:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=34437"},"modified":"2019-10-07T18:17:28","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T22:17:28","slug":"airplanehome-com-a-bonkers-but-beautiful-dream-seen-post-portland-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=34437","title":{"rendered":"AirplaneHome.com – A Bonkers But Beautiful Dream Seen Post Portland Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"

As is often the case, I try and find cool things to see or do in the places I visit to run a marathon.\u00a0 This AirplaneHome.com Boeing 727-200 Home Conversion certainly fit the bill.\u00a0 I was lucky enough to visit it on short notice, dropping an email to the owner shortly after finishing the Portland Marathon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I was going to go into the details and make some comments… and I will post some photos to be sure… but honestly, you should probably just read up on it over at AirplaneHome.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The visionary behind all of this is Bruce Campbell (NOT that one… though this plane in the woods counts as a cabin, to the best of my knowledge there is NOT a Necronomicon<\/em> inside <\/span>and there are no Deadites lurking about… though Bruce does have to deal with roving bands of thieves and vandals).\u00a0 I met Bruce at the plane and he graciously gave me a tour.\u00a0 While he’s eccentric and funny and, yes, a little weird, he’s also incredibly nice, passionate, and cares about what he’s doing.\u00a0 He envisions taking abandoned jetcraft, like all those planes sitting in the Arizona desert<\/a>, and converting them into homes.\u00a0 They’re designed to withstand extreme weather conditions in flight, and essentially they are like RVs in the sky.\u00a0 It may be bonkers, but it’s a beautiful dream.<\/p>\n

As I said, I found the whole thing utterly fascinating and charming and if you’re in the area, you really ought to drop him an email and see if you can visit.<\/p>\n

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Fun fact: this was the plane that flew Aristotle Onasis’s body back to Greece; Jackie O and Ted Kennedy sat onboard… although it’s unclear if the seats made it through to Bruce’s place.<\/p>\n

Bruce tells me the mistake he made was having it salvaged and placed; Version 2.0 in Japan is a fully conditioned bird, minus the engines, and thus will be a MUCH faster “proof of concept.”\u00a0 Unlike this Version 1.0 which he’s been rebuilding off and on for 20 years, he thinks he can do that one in 2-3 months (has the plane and spot all lined up… just needs some stakeholders to sign on the dotted line).<\/p>\n

Fly high, Bruce.\u00a0 May your dreams realized be more akin to Daedalus than Icarus!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As is often the case, I try and find cool things to see or do in the places I visit to run a marathon.\u00a0 This AirplaneHome.com Boeing 727-200 Home Conversion certainly fit the bill.\u00a0 I was lucky enough to visit it on short notice, dropping an email to the owner shortly after finishing the Portland […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}