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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Abandoned Boeing 747 Restaurant (and Other Plane Conversions)


"QUANTUM SHOT" #560
Link - by Jon Dunbar and A. Abrams



The first Jumbo Jet to be flown commercially - rusting away, haunted by kitchen smells

We've seen "Airplane House & Boat Conversions", now it's time to check out converted-aircraft eating establishments - which lure customers inside the decommissioned planes (in hope to distract them from the quality of food?) Anyway, one such super-fast-jumbo-sized joint apparently is not in use any more:



all images copyright Jon Dunbar, used by permission

Jon Dunbar, whom you might remember from his "Abandoned Amusement Parks in Asia" article, sends us another account of his urban exploring in South Korea. This time it's an abandoned Boeing 747 restaurant, looming huge over the highway, and yet dwarfed by a swarm of apartment buildings all around.

Jon says: "Thanks to the helpful people at Urban Exploration Resource I discovered that this was the second Boeing 747 ever made and apparently the first to be flown commercially." Here is the photo of its better days (see more here) -


(image credit: Marc Lehmann)

Then later it was disassembled and partially reassembled over here to be used as a restaurant. It clearly was closed up very quickly and now just sits next to a railway wasting away.

On approach, one can see the apartment buildings, which in Suwon look somewhat like milk cartons:



Here it is, a strange sight in the neighborhood...





This is somewhat surreal shot: it almost looks like this Jumbo 747 landed on a poor little building, which still tries to be cheerful with all these painted Pokemons and a satellite dish:



The jet engines don't look very authentic, however:



Look at its proud cockpit, and try to reflect on this unique aircraft's history:




Inside the plane, the cockpit is no longer a cockpit - but a seating space with a view:




The menu, and typical restaurant bar trinkets are still there -





When airliners fall into disrepair, they spawn some unusual-looking mushroom growth on their wings... On the right, nicely-used landing gear:



On this photo the airliner looks like it's ready to join the flow of city's traffic -


all images copyright Jon Dunbar, used by permission

In its day, this particular Jumbo Jet (the second ever built, and the first one to be flown commercially) was subjected to rigorous testing - here is a "Tail Strike" Test video, plus its history holds some minor accidents and damage. Here it is shown being disassembled before reaching Korea - and a Boeing employee talks about its history:


(image credit: Duncan Stewart)

Then Humpty Dumpty was put together again, to host the hungry customers and thirsty bar drinkers.




Airliners used as restaurants seem to be quite popular in South Korea: there is one in Daegu, and here is another on in Mokpo:


(image via Cary, more info)

One more aircraft "cafe" was one time in Seoul, but is gone now (more info, the place now is used for screen golf)


El Avion: Iran-Contra-Cargo Plane Converted Into a Bar in Costa Rica

This cargo plane was apparently delivering supplies to the Nicaraguan Contras and was shot down in 1986... leading to the Iran Contra scandal and investigation of Reagan administration' involvement - for the full info and directions to get there click here

UPDATE: Andrew Hoskin writes: "Actually, this is the sister to the plane that got shot down. The US government had purchased and was running two of these planes. When the one that sparked the Iran Contra affair was shot down this one was abandoned at the San Jose airport in Costa Rica. It was many years later that the derelict plane was purchased and moved to its new location."




(images credit: Scott)


A plane inside a restaurant might be a better idea -



... then the unique (and often historic) aircraft is spared the wear and tear and spilled food from many customers, plus it's protected from weather elements. One restaurant owner in Switzerland - map - decided to put an old Russian Ilyushin-14 into his restaurant and called it "Runway 34":




(images credit: Runway 34)

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COMMENTS::

21 Comments:

Anonymous srk said...

Two more that I have seen in person:
Restaurant Silbervogel in Hannover, Germany:
http://maps.google.com/?ll=52.347305,9.70935&t=h
http://www.planepictures.net/netshow.php?id=683583

and one in Petrovice, Czech Republic:
http://maps.google.com/?ll=50.807599,13.980821&t=h
http://www.planepictures.net/netshow.php?id=823669

There are hundreds more pictures to be found on planepictures.net but to save their system resources I won't hotlink the exact search.

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Anonymous Kit said...

what a sad demise to an iconic aircraft..

McDonald's in Taupo, New Zealand, has utilised a DC3 for many years now..

http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/1429030.jpg

at least they look after the exterior

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Flannery's Restaurant in Penndel, Pennsylvania (a little north of Philadelphia) featured a Lockheed Super Constellation as its cocktail lounge. The place was a landmark for many years until the aircraft was donated to the Air Mobility Museum in Dover, Delaware. More information here:

http://www.hemmings.com/hmn/stories/2007/09/01/hmn_feature18.html

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Blogger Tom said...

You spelt 'Seoul' wrong on your article.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

You spelled "spelled" wrong.

"spelt", lol.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

You spell "spelt" "spelled"? What language do you speak, some bastard colonial version of the language of southern Great Britian?

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Blogger AStanhope said...

There is one in Saraburi, Thailand.

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Anonymous WannaSmile.com said...

Very cool stuff...

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Anonymous tadejtadej said...

There is also an old Soviet plane, transformed into a bar in Olomouc, Czech Republic - Latka Bar: http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Europe/Czech_Republic/Olomoucky_Kraj/Olomouc-401624/Nightlife-Olomouc-BR-1.html

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Blogger Bobby said...

An even better use for old jumbo jets can be found on the website for the Artificial Reef Society of British Columbia

http://www.artificialreef.bc.ca/OurReefs/AR-540/index.htm

Equally interesting, the Discovery Channel tells the story of efforts to deploy the 737-200 as an artificial reef which was, understandably, a logistics nightmare. You can catch it on their MegaBuilders series or read the synopsis here:

http://www.discoverychannel.co.uk/

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Blogger Tom Vidar said...

And in Sweden - very close to Stockholm Airport - Arlanda (ARN/ESSA) there`s a retired 747 serving as a hotel !

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Anonymous José M. / 4PS_Gizmo / SanglassPatrol said...

Hello! you still can add more conversions... in Aviadores Virtuales Asociados we have found...

Plane Cafe in Russia
http://englishrussia.com/?p=1726

Disco (in Barcelona - Spain)
http://www.myaviation.net/search/photo_search.php?id=00038734&size=large

727-Suite
http://www.costaverde.com/727.html

There is another disco-plane in Madrid (Spain) but I did not find any photo

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Blogger Avi Abrams said...

Thank you guys, great tips

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Anonymous José M. / 4PS_Gizmo / SanglassPatrol said...

We have linked your airplane conversions and we have added some more (in spanish)

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Anonymous Thijs Simons said...

In Holland the former plane of Erich Honecker (East Germany) is transfered into a luxury suite. See: http://www.hotelsuites.nl/suites.php?view=detail&hotel=1894

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Anonymous Tom said...

That's incredible!! How the hell did they manage to drag a 747 to this spot? I guess it started out pretty cool and then turned into a bit of an eye sore! Did they close it for health and safety reasons? It looks pretty warn out!

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

In Colorado Springs, CO USA, a former C-97 is now Solo's restaurant (and from what the ads in the Colorado Springs travel guides say, an aerospace museum as well).

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Blogger Crasher-Carl said...

Question: how could that Pan Am 747 look so RUSTED? I thought that the exteriors were all aluminum.

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Blogger Axel said...

Just got torn down. Sad, really....
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fgw-korea-plane-20101213,0,7814977.story

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Anonymous James said...

Tom (and anyone else who wants to know),
I worked on this project. I came in a little late, but was one of the last two people on the job. Disassembly was run by Aviation Warehouse out of El Mirage California. The actual disassembly and cutting took part at the decommissioned Norton Air Force Base. The mountains in the back are the San
AW provided airplane sets and acts as a parts salvage yard. I remember the FAA guys coming by to look into the tanks and telling us this was the second 747 built.
Basically, the parts were stripped and the shell was cut into pieces that would fit into sea containers. We used 14" gas powered chop saws.
I came in after the tail section was cut. You can see the cut marks all over the plane. We all wondered if they would bondo them or do something to hide them, evidently they didn't.
They were loaded on by a Gehl reach lift.

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OpenID Hex said...

There's another plane-as-restaurant (similarly abandoned) somewhere along the road in the Puncak Pass, Java, Indonesia, or was when I went down that way in 2004.

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  • while planned, V-1s were never air-launched from planes.

    Germany did lead in the developement of radio-guided stand-off weaponry with the HS-239 anti shipping missile ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henschel_Hs_293 ) and the less successful Mistel combos ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistel )
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  • I can't find any info on a USS Essex being destroyed. The aircraft carrier I found on Wikipedia was decomissioned after the war, and used later during the Cuban middle crisis.
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  • Dirk, thank you, post updated

    Casey, you're right, USS Essex was hit, but not destroyed, here is a photo of a hit: link
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  • Nice post! Although one of the shown short-wing planes is a japanese Yokosuka Ōka Modell 11 plane.
    This kamikaze-plane should have been carried by a bomber to the target.
    http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yokosuka_MXY-7
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  • The WunderWaffe 2 looks like a complete crap shoot.
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  • fantastic post. i was at the german industrial museum in munich the other day and saw a lot of the aviation stuff you mention - amazing how advanced they were back then. spotted you on the searchles portal. so many thanks for sharing
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  • Very nice post, thanks
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  • The german word for "curved" means "gebogen" or technicaly more fitting to the curved MP44 "gekrümmter Lauf".

    The second aircraft in the side comparsion to the V-1 is not a Baka, but a Fieseler Fi103R Reichenberg. It is a german suicide plane based on the more common Fi103 (V-1), following on reports of sucesses about the japanese kamikazes, but it was used only for training. About 175 Fi103R have been build until the program was cancelled in Fall of 1944.

    Not only the MiG-15 is based upon the Focke-Wulf Ta183, but also its american counterpart the F-86 Sabre. Because of this similarty pilots of both side during the Korea War had their trouble to identify friend and foe.

    K.
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  • The pictures of the E100 are false. It was never completed. Only one chassis was partially built and it was captured before completion. It was later scraped by the Brits.
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  • Maus (and especially the larger design study at Krupp) put me in mind of Keith Laumer's Bolos (Gigantic cybernetic... well, tanks, but writ Colossally, Titanically *hyooge*.
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  • Intersting article ; you could also have mentioned the (unproperly called) "V3", a very long supergun similar to the one planned by Saddam Hussein during the 90's.

    http://www.route-3945.com/modulosite2/fiche.php?id_bouton=1507&id=221&fr=0

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-3_cannon#Mimoyecques_site
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  • Paul - great tip, thanks

    Herbicide - I remember reading Bolo stories. Somebody would have to make a movie based on these designs.
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  • While the Ar-234 was used as a bomber, it was more often put to use as a reconnaissance aircraft. In fact, one of them buzzed some of the Normandy beaches on D-day.
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  • It should be said that super-large tanks were a BAD idea. Hitler had been in the trenches in World War I, and he personally demanded that large tanks be designed. He even took personal control, by radio, of the first combat mission of a new-model big tank. The mission was a disaster.

    Aside from sinking into swamps, not going between obstacles, and the like, they had a more basic disadvantage that they could never be plentiful. The American light tanks weren't exactly unstoppable, but like the jeep, they were plentiful, and that mattered.
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  • Aren't those paintings from My Tank is Fight?

    It's definitely cool if any of this super-weaponry stuff interests the reader: http://www.amazon.ca/My-Tank-Fight-Zack-Parsons/dp/0806527587
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  • The IR baffles on German submarines were introduced when Allied planes started sinking Nazi boats at night. The Germans had developed IR vision equipment and figured the enemy had done the same and were using it to find the subs. However, the Allies "knew" IR vision equipment was impossible.

    The actual situation was that the Allies had developed airborne microwave radar, which the Germans "knew" was impossible.
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  • So why the fcuk they didn't win the freaking war?!! Looks like the US stole most of their technology to develop what we know as US advanced army.
    Maybe that's why US goes into war every time, to steal something!
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  • Anonymous, er..one of you :)

    The Germans actually relied on a lot of captured Jewish scientists to come up with they're scientific breakthroughs in Aviation and Rockets.
    I believe the flying wing and swept wing concepts were originally pioneered by them. The Americans took a lot of the captured Jewish & German Scientists/German Weaponry back to the US to further the development as did Russia.
    The F-111 and F-14 are two examples of this as are the early Mig's for Russia, the single mid mounted jet engine was also a Messerschmidt concept from memory.
    Germany in reality lost the war because of Hitler's Ego causing him to make a number of emotional strategic errors, bottom line. I believe Jet fighters were originally held back by German High Ranking officials and quite possibly, Hitler. If these developments had been funding boosted pre-/early WW2...the outcome may have been very, very different and we could all be talking German right now.
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  • Pretty pictures, yes, but rather gullible writing.

    The German navigation beacons could certainly be said to be forerunners of GPS... in the same sense that fire can be thought of as the forerunner of lasers.
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  • The German radio navigation was not like GPS, but LORAN. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LORAN
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  • Curved barrels was also designed by Russians for PPSh-41 SMG. In reality, such barrels were designed to allow shooting not around the corners but rather through the portholes of a tank.
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  • Seems the "Walking Tank" was a draft for the Alien APC... ;-) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Aliens_(film)_APC.jpg)

    The "Reichsflugscheibe" (UFO) will take part in the movie "Iron Sky" (http://www.ironsky.net)
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  • More inmportant is that german designs didn't look gay like the soviet and american rip offs.
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  • that's true anonymous, but they had to be further developed.

    nice item, DRB!!! keep up the good links!
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  • "Baka" means "stupid" in Japanese. True story. :)
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  • beautiful stuff. A shame that more tyranny didn't take place using these weapons.

    tyrantscorner.com
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