Photos: Airplane recycling taking off

Bruce Campbell bought this Boeing 727 for $100,000 to convert into a home on his property outside of Portland, Ore. The plane provides 1,066 square feet of living space.

"To me it makes no sense at all to destroy the finest structures available and then turn around and build homes out of materials which are fundamentally little better than pressed cardboard, using ancient and inferior design and building methods," Campbell wrote on his Web site.