Father Builds Boeing 737 Cockpit Bedroom For Children In Incredible 5-Year Project

[SKORPI0]

:awe:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/30/father-builds-boeing-737-cockpit-bedroom_n_3676909.html (video)
http://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/sci/coolest-dad-builds-737-cockpit-simulator-kids-bedroom.html

According to news outlet Sud Ouest, French father Laurent Aigon is neither pilot nor engineer. He is merely an aeronautics enthusiast who wanted to do something extravagant for his children. So he spent years building an incredibly realistic Boeing 737 cockpit that can be used as a training simulator.
"It can take off from Mérignac, fly over Lacanau, the coast," Aigon previously told the French-language publication.
Aigon, who works as a waiter in Lacanau, ordered airplane parts from around the world -- some at great expense -- and worked thousands of hours to build the functional replica in his children's bedroom. With the help of fellow enthusiast Jean-Paul Dupuy, Aigon tinkers with the mechanics, relying on information he finds on the web. He also reaches out to friends for additional help when the tasks are above his level of expertise.
However, it seems the five-year enterprise has become much more than a pet project for Aigon. According to local reports, the 40-year-old has recently been contacted by an aircraft maintenance company about his design. A French aeronautics maintenance institute in Bordeaux-Mérignac even offered the innovative father a guest lecturer position.

 

[OCGuy]

Great, another ATOT thread that can be found by googling "Father cock children"

 

[Howard]

Those are some big graphing calculators.

 

[SKORPI0]

Great, another ATOT thread that can be found by googling "Father cock children"

"Father cockpit children", has better results. :whiste::hmm:

 

[Brigandier]

I hopes he installs X-Wing vs. T.I.E. Fighter.

 

[SearchMaster]

Prediction: kids outgrow avionic interest in ~1.5 years.

<--- has done "theme" bedrooms for my kids before (though not like his)

 

[bignateyk]

Prediction: kids outgrow avionic interest in ~1.5 years.

<--- has done "theme" bedrooms for my kids before (though not like his)

Let's be realistic. This guys spends way more time in this thing than his kids do. He might as well just swap bedrooms now. It was probably the only way he could justify spending that kind of time and money to his wife 😀

 

[halik]

Yeah that was not for the kids...

 

[marvdmartian]

KID "Oh yeah? Well, what if I run away from home? What will you do then??"
FATHER "Go ahead! Why not fly yourself somewhere??" :awe:

Even better, 2 days later, a knock on the door, and the gendarme tells the father that the kid went to the airport, jumped in a fueled 737, and took off to someplace far away! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: