No need for roof tiles

Whilst hunting macro locations, I came across this:

The ground floor is a shipping container which is providing a home for someone. Perched cheekily in top is what looks like the cabin from a transport plane. One of the plane’s engines serves as a conversation piece in the front garden.

But walk around the property and you discover that the whole damn plane is sat on top of the container house.

The obvious question is “why”? The obvious answer is that the aircraft helps shield the container from the sun’s rays and thereby provides a more pleasant living environment. One might almost say it has…. wait for it…… air conditioning….

I’ll get my coat.

Comments 🔗

2014-12-02 | rjmorgans says

Made me smile!

2014-12-02 | jon sutton says

Could say that it is a Provider of shade. Easy as 123

I’ll get my anorak

2014-12-02 | jon sutton says

Regurgitating something just read on Sikipedia, apparently those planes were used to spray Agent Orange during the unpleasantness in Vietnam and were later found to be highly contaminated.

Is that a spray bar on the port wing??

At home with a bad back at the moment; expect more useless information in the coming hours.

2014-12-02 | Spike says

I bet you were a Fair child.

2014-12-02 | Clive says

It could be a wing mount for spraying… But I suspect it might also be the spar bracket for a long range fuel tank. If you check the tail and trailing edges of the wings, you’ll note that the smaller and relatively easily removed pieces are long gone - I would suspect to a scrap metal dealer maybe? Or to repurpose elsewhere in the home?

2014-12-03 | Derek says

This is a C-123K and the mount on the port wing was for a J85 jet booster engine. If modified for defoliation it would have been a UC-123K and it would be vaguely interesting to know which one it is. Given its location almost certainly ex RTAF and probably a Vietnam war relic.

2014-12-03 | ChristianPFC says

Interesting find. I have a small collection (will publish sometime) of “aircraft used as decoration” from all over Thailand. On highway 32, there is an entire fuselage of a jumbo jet on a house, next to the highway (observation when driving past on the return from Ang Thong to Bangkok, no time for picture).