Why not buy 16 mothballed airplanes from the gigantic airplane mothball/graveyard in Arizona, stack the fuselages four high, in a square, and have yourself a unique office building? Stairs and elevators could be placed at the corners. The central atrium could be a garden, a block of meeting rooms, and a restaurant, and the roof would be a wild collage of the wings - to do Frank Gehry proud.
The planes already have windows, floors, HVAC, storage, and bathrooms. How hard would it be to set up walls, doorways, and a hallway to turn the fuselage into a dozen offices? Take out the overhead bins and lower the floors, and it could actually be roomy. Bombers and cargo planes would be even roomier - although less appealing than say a Pan Am over a People Express, over a Braniff, over an Eastern, if you can picture that.
You could have nearly 200 offices in this building, which would instantly become a landmark attraction; the most famous building in the state. It could be an incubator, where people rent by the day or even the hour. Or it could belong to a single company. I'd work there!
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This is either the stupidest idea or the most brilliant thing I've ever heard, and I can't decide which.
Except for major difficulties with fire escape regulations, fire barrier regulations, maintenance costs, structural stability problems (planes are not designed to have any excess structural capacity), this could be done. However, its very likely to be significantly more expensive than building a normal block.
I like that idea. This would be a great way to use old planes and it would definately be a land mark.
speaking as a pilot, I dont think that it's right to keep planes in captivity....
while it might not save money, it would be a novel method of recycling. In an emergency the officeworkers could grab their seatcushions for floatation and escape from the second or third floor on the standard evacuation slides.