727 Jet is Dream House in Oregon
A man in Oregon is taking an old 727 plane in the middle of the woods and turning it into his dream house.
Bruce Campbell has taken an aircraft destined for the scrap yard and is transforming the retired 727-200 into his own private home complete with showers, toilets and an iPod.
He recently gave a camera team from CNN an inside look at his converted jetliner showing them how to live in a plane in the woods.
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Campbell has to enter and exit from the stairs which are lowered from the aircraft's fuselage and is careful not to track dirt on the floor by wiping his feet on a mat before entering.
As he took the CNN team around, it is quite clear that the home is still a work in progress. There are several cardboard boxes which line the length of one side of the aircraft. Boxes are stacked two or three high in some places.
There are also several chairs, which remind visitors of the journeys that were experienced aboard the aircraft. It does take some getting used to the confined quarters, but Campbell has an explanation for that.
"It's small but I'm small," he explained as he showed the camera crew around.
Campbell explained that one of the more difficult tasks was to get electricity and running water to such a remote place. Now he has lights and even is able to listen to music from his iPod. The plumbing still needs to be finished, but he has one of the three toilets operational.
Campbell stated that he started this project as an "experiment" and hopes to be able to show that people can live in all manner of environments.
"It is a good experiment in a living environment that, I hope, will prove to be something that mankind will embrace with vigor at a later time," he told CNN.
