Miloch
July 26th 20, 06:51 AM
more at
https://hackaday.com/2020/07/25/jet-airliner-nacelle-becomes-a-unique-camper/
https://www.facebook.com/The-VC10-caravan-pod-108438714152064/
It’s possible that some of you will have thought about making a custom camper
for yourselves. Some of you may even have gone as far as to build a teardrop
caravan. It’s very unlikely though that you’ll have gone as far as [Steve Jones]
though, who took an outer engine nacelle from a retired ex-RAF VC-10 airliner
and converted it into a camper that is truly one of a kind.
On the face of it a jet engine nacelle should be an easy shell for such a
project, but such a simplified view perhaps doesn’t account for the many vents,
pipes, and hatches required by the engine in flight. Turning it into a
waterproof housing for a camper was a significant job, which he has managed to
do while leaving one set of engine access doors available as a large opening for
a room with a view.
The nacelle is mounted on a narrowed former caravan chassis, and with an
eye-catching window created from its former air intake and a very well executed
interior fit-out it makes for a camper that many of us would relish trying for
ourselves. You can see a video of it below the break, and we wish we could be
lucky enough to encounter it in a campsite one summer.
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https://hackaday.com/2020/07/25/jet-airliner-nacelle-becomes-a-unique-camper/
https://www.facebook.com/The-VC10-caravan-pod-108438714152064/
It’s possible that some of you will have thought about making a custom camper
for yourselves. Some of you may even have gone as far as to build a teardrop
caravan. It’s very unlikely though that you’ll have gone as far as [Steve Jones]
though, who took an outer engine nacelle from a retired ex-RAF VC-10 airliner
and converted it into a camper that is truly one of a kind.
On the face of it a jet engine nacelle should be an easy shell for such a
project, but such a simplified view perhaps doesn’t account for the many vents,
pipes, and hatches required by the engine in flight. Turning it into a
waterproof housing for a camper was a significant job, which he has managed to
do while leaving one set of engine access doors available as a large opening for
a room with a view.
The nacelle is mounted on a narrowed former caravan chassis, and with an
eye-catching window created from its former air intake and a very well executed
interior fit-out it makes for a camper that many of us would relish trying for
ourselves. You can see a video of it below the break, and we wish we could be
lucky enough to encounter it in a campsite one summer.
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