Model Airplanes

SNOHOMISH COUNTY, Wash. — Sure, you own a 20,000-square-foot megamansion after cashing in on that IPO. Now you need to decorate it.

How about these one-of-a-kind objets d’art?

There’s a nearly-life-size model of a Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 turbofan jet engine, the type that powers the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Even at 90 percent scale, it comes in at about 10 feet in a diameter. The blades even spin after you plug it into an electric outlet.

That’ll impress guests at your next party.

Or a 40-to-50-foot nose from a Boeing 727.

And 10-foot-high landing gear from a Boeing 777, with twin tires each a little under 4 feet in diameter.

Those are the big, big airplane parts available for the discerning collector in this unusual liquidation.

And you might have them for $1 each, although there is a hitch: The cost of hauling them away. For that, prepare to spend a few tens of thousands of dollars.

The smaller items, like a 5-foot “Magic Planet interactive,” that projects with a special lens into a big sphere, could fit into a minivan.

The reason for the sale is Boeing, which has long leased a portion of the Paine Field building that houses the Future of Flight Aviation Center Boeing Tour, will now lease the entire building. This means the Institute of Flight, which has displayed numerous aviation items in a cavernous hall, will no longer have a home.

Before, Boeing used the waiting area in the large building, and the exhibits were run by the nonprofit Institute.

Snohomish County, which owns the

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By Tanya Mohn, The New York Times

Dave W. Hall got hooked by the allure of flying machines after a family friend took him up in a little Cessna 172 for his first flight when he was about 8. “I had a lot of model toy airplanes,” said  Hall, who grew up in the 1970s on a small farm in Ohio. “What little boy doesn’t hold out his arms and pretend he’s flying?”

Today he is co-founder and owner of MotoArt Studios, a Torrance business that sands, polishes, paints and redesigns retired airplane parts that began with an old propeller destined for the junkyard that was turned into a free-standing sculpture.

“We can’t get rid of this,”  Hall recalled his then-partner saying at the time. “A light bulb went off,”  Hall said. “We can preserve aviation history.”

• Cesar Guerrero, left, and Andy Valle, work on a piece of the fuselage from a Boeing 747 at MotoArt Studios in Torrance, Calif., that will be used to build a six-window conference table that sells for around $15,000. Photo: Andrew Cullen

• Dave Hall is a co-founder and the owner of MotoArt Studios, which refurbishes and redesigns retired airplane parts. Photo: Andrew Cullen

• A finished Delta One desk, made from the tail of a DC-9 aircraft, at MotoArt Studios. The desk sells for $32,500. Photo: Andrew Cullen

• Upcycling airplane parts, like these pieces of airplane fuselages at MotoArt, uses old materials to make something new and different.

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The plane model itself – the A350 design – is not new, but the XWB, “Ultra Long Range” variant is a step forward for the technology that allows the aircraft to fly for so long without a break.

The plane can fly for over 15,000km without stopping due to a new kind of engine, made – as is usual for Airbus jets – by British manufacturer Rolls Royce.

This engine uses less fuel and includes a change to the fuelling system, allowing the plane to carry up to 24,000 litres of kerosene without needing to be refuelled.

The system will also use 25% less fuel overall, Airbus has said.

The specific plane that was unveiled this week has been bought by far east company Singapore Airlines, and already bears its branding. The plane has just completed its pre-flight testing.

Singapore Airlines has ordered seven units of the new model, and is set to receive the first deliveries within the next few months.

The airline is expected to use the planes on its long-haul route between Singapore and the USA; and between Los Angeles and San Francisco.

A few words from Tom Enders, @Airbus CEO, on the successful #BelugaXL first flight: « Big congratulations, Bertrand and team! Trailblazing work for future Airbus programs, well done! » pic.twitter.com/bFfdiDrdmO

— Airbus PRESS (@AirbusPRESS) July 19, 2018

The unveiling of this commercial jet comes just weeks after Airbus revealed its new “whale-shaped” cargo plane, the Beluga XL – the successor to

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