Oregon engineer spent $100,000 on a retired Boeing 727 and turned it into a home

In 1999, retired electrical engineer Bruce Campbell paid 100,000 dollars for a decommissioned Boeing 727-200 that had spent its working life flying for Olympic Airways in Greece, then had the aircraft flown to Oregon and hauled in pieces to a wooded property near Hillsboro, where it was reassembled and slowly converted into his home. More than two decades later, Campbell still lives inside the aircraft's roughly 1,066 square foot cabin and flight deck, a space that retains much of its original cockpit, wiring and structural design. What began as one engineer's unconventional housing experiment has since turned into a long-running personal project and public attraction, one that Campbell hopes will encourage others to see decommissioned aircraft as usable buildings rather than scrap.Why Bruce Campbell chose to live inside a retired jetlinerCampbell, who trained as an electrical engineer and worked in building services and environmental engineering, has said his decision to live inside an aircraft grew out of a long-standing fascination with aeronautical design. According to his own account on Airplane Home, the website documenting his project, Campbell has argued that aircraft repre...