I’m not sure what I think of this.
Granted, Alaska is all about aviation. The Great Land wouldn’t be what it is without aviation, although most of what makes the state work isn’t big airliners but the smaller civil aviation types, including the famed bush pilots. But I never would have thought of taking a big airliner and turning it into housing. Excerpt:
The plane, donated by FedEx to the University of Alaska’s Aviation Technology Division, made headlines for its 2013 landing at Merrill Field in Downtown Anchorage.
Jon Kotwicki, the owner of FLY8MA Flight Training in Big Lake, purchased the airliner as part of a housing project for students who attend the training facility. The 727 will join a DC-6 and DC-9 already parked at his property, and has big plans in store for it.
“That is our flight school that we are building there off of Hawk Lane and Big Lake,” Kotwicki said. “[The planes] will serve as student housing for students who are coming to do flight training with us from afar as well as an Airbnb.”
I guess it makes a certain amount of sense; go to flight school, live in an airplane. I guess we’ll see how it works out. Now then:
On To the Links!
Alaska is essential to US energy security. No shit, Sherlock.
Some cancers shouldn’t be treated.
Well, Chicago, it was nice knowin’ ya. Aw, who am I kidding? Chicago was always a shithole. Now they’re just doubling down on lunacy.
More guns do not lead to more deaths.
National treasure Dr. Victor Davis Hanson describes our French Revolution.
Gas prices will be going up again. Yay.
Six things the Left doesn’t want you to know about ‘climate change.’
This is one of the most Alaska things that can happen. And so is this.
Manufacturing is not “booming” under President Biden(‘s handlers.)
Pelosi heckled. Well, she is a sad old drunk.
Whoo-hoo! Bikini baristas win in court!
This should come as no surprise.
National treasure Dr. Victor Davis Hanson on fiddling while America burns.
This Week’s Idiots:
John “Lurch” Kerry is an asshole, and an idiot.
Karine Jean-Pierre is an idiot.
Paul Krugman (Repeat Offender Alert) remains a cheap partisan hack, and an idiot.
Salon’s Dean Obeidallah (Repeat Offender Alert) is an idiot.
Chicago’s new Mayor-elect is an idiot.
Idiotic TikTok landwhale complains about airline seats.
The Nation’s John Nichols (Repeat Offender Alert) is an idiot.
Salon’s Lawrence Goldstone is an idiot.
Slate’s Richard L. Hasen and Dahlia Lithwick (Repeat Offender Alert) are both idiots.
This Week’s Cultural Edification:
I never was a huge fan of Billy Joel. He was good enough, but I just never really got into his style of music. But most artists good enough to get album deals usually have at least one good song in them, and boy, howdy, did Billy Joel have at least one great song in him.
That song, of course, was Piano Man. It’s a wonderful, iconic tune that put Billy Joel on the map, and whatever I think of his general style, he deserved the fame this song brought him. Here, then, is that tune; enjoy.
