Posted on 04/02/2022 6:46:11 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Between the two towers of Westbank‘s WB1200 development in Seattle, a repurposed Boeing 747 is soon to be suspended. The body of the massive airplane will float above the residential project’s galleria as a centerpiece and a symbol of industrial innovation, on view as a sensational artifact for both pedestrians at street level and for residents in their dwellings overhead.
Ian Gillespie, founder of Vancouver-based Westbank, leads the project with the aim of celebrating innovation. That’s why the fuselage will not only hang between the apartment towers an art object, but as occupiable space. The reused Boeing 747 will function as workspace for Westbank’s Seattle office while the plane’s tail will host the entrance to the Live Nation event venue.
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I think this is a very good idea.
Wait until masks are optional...
Seems kind of stupid to me. And the people down beneath it might like to enjoy the sunshine it will block out.
Agree, stupid. Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.
Its a good idea to keep the wings and engine nacelles and upper level piano...
Hot pants and thigh high boots optional.
You should see all the ones at Pinal Air Park, NW of Tucson.
I like airplanes on buildings. Remember the Bomber gas station in Milwaukie?
The Spruce Goose is in the building next door to that one, along with an SR-71, an Me262, a B-17, and lots of other really interesting aircraft.
Evergreen had to do something wih that whale...
Gee, they should suspend it so it looks like it is flying into one of the Towers.
Fantastic airplane, probably the greatest there has been. Deserves any way they can be preserved. Even better if people get to go inside.
Great article.
The B-17 from the Bomber gas station is being restored and will fly again, I hope.
I’d like to see the Evergreen Aviation Museum someday, but I don’t know when I’ll be up that way. I need to go to the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson again before the weather gets too hot.
Wasn’t there an old saying about Constellation pilots being the best of the best since they could handle three tails at the same time?
The ‘whale’ you’re referring to - which I’m sure is the 747-400 supertanker - is pending sale after the investors shut it down last year.
The airframe atop the waterpark - it is NOT the original 747-100 supertanker airframe which first dropped retardant in 2009 - is the launch point of 4 of the waterslides.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM6ICXKWIZo&t=101s
I loved working the 747-400s... best plane ever. Best crew rest area of all of them. Definitely will be missed.
Thanks, that’s good info but I just recalled seeing the older one out at Pinal County Airpark many years ago at their hangar. Thought it was just another freighter they were using, and most of their freighters are ancient crap.
The fire tanker sounded like a good idea, but like the IL-76, apparently our forest service pooh bahs wrinkled their noses at it...better to force the pilots to fly beat up C-130s that fold up when you do the exit pull up from the drop run. After all, pilots beez expendable...
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