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Then wing your way over to the collection of furniture and artifacts from the latest edition of the Boeing Store Custom Hangar catalog, home accessories derived from genuine aircraft parts.
Aircraft are beautiful things, says Akshay Sharma, founder, Woodfeather and Airborn. The former offers handcrafted wooden propellers, while the latter has furniture made of aircraft components.
Using recycled materials is nothing new when it comes to making furniture. But rarely are the results – literally – this polished. Using pieces of vintage aircraft ranging from B-25 bombers to ...
Thanks to a few designer and furniture makers, this is now possible. The following pieces are made of disassembled or reclaimed aircraft parts, bringing the skies into your home.
All of these aircraft companies have struggled, with many retiring some of their fleet, and it makes you wonder what they do with the tens of millions of parts that are left over.
Mr Hall 45, set up Motoart in 2001 with Donovan Fell, 64. The business now employs 17 people and turns over around £26 million a year. They first got the idea of transforming aircraft parts after ...
Aviation tycoon Declan Ryan has provided seed capital to a designer who makes furniture out of retired aircraft. Ciara O'Toole - herself a pilot - has launched a collection of five pieces inspired ...
Inside the Air Force reported in late March on a problem vexing the U.S. military — fake parts showing up in depots and finding their way into Air Force and Navy aircraft. An unknown number of ...