J is for Jumbo Jet!

Source: David Hertz Architects

Yeah that's right, flying in the air, please put your chairs in their upright and locked positions: Jumbo Jets. For better or for worse, since Boeing first invented the jumbo jet back in 1971, we have been using these epic machines to propell ourselves all over the globe. But what exactly happens to them when the wear and tear of travelling at more than 700 miles an hour starts to take its toll? Chances are at one point they'll end up in one of the many aircraft boneyards dotted around America or be dismantled by companies like Air Salvage International in the UK. If carried out with enthusiasm up to 97% of these mostly metal machines can be recycled for future use. At military facilities like 309th AMARC, the most common use for an old jet is making a new jet, but looking around the web, we've found some terribly clever upcycled commercial jets.

The Wing House

Source: David Hertz Architects

Source: David Hertz Architects

Wing house is the brain child of the team at California's David Hertz Architects. The Malibu home is super green, constructed of an entire Boeing 747 and additional materials made from 100% post-consumer waste. Add to that the building uses solar power, radiant heating, natural ventilation and high performance heat mirror glazing, and you've got yourself one high flying home.

Fuselage Furniture

Source Moto  Art

Ok, so what do you put in your recycled airplane house? Upcycled airplane furniture of course! Where do you get it? Well, team over at Moto Art have been bending, shaping and cutting parts of passenger planes almost anything you can think of: sofas, beds, bars, desks, lamps, mirrors - the list goes on. They are particularly good at getting that mirror finish that  is so evocative of the early days of passenger planes.

High Flying Hostel

Sweden's Jumbo Stay hotel is located near the airport in the town of Arlanda. The hostel is made from a converted Boeing 747-212B with 27 rooms and 76 beds. Not surprisingly, the hostel has become somewhat of a land mark in the town and special destination for visitors from around the world.

Source: Jumbo Stay

Source: JumboStay