747 Fire Sale

Someone buy one or several of the supposedly many 747 hulls that are about to come on the market and drop them in Seattle somewhere, please. Seriously, there is a dire need. One, they're cheap and you've got a bunch of software money to burn. It'll be like recognizing the old masters, but, you know, demeaning them at the same time...like when you bought your old man a house and then attached all those crazy conditions to it. Two, it's an airplane town, still, but looking around you wouldn't really know it. Three, whimsy is on life support in Seattle.

We need an airplane park here somewhere, but if you're not into the whole "gift to the city" thing (and we'd probably block you anyay) and you still haven't bought that house for dad maybe set him up in one of these:

During the next two to five years, the price of used Boeing 747s may fall to historic lows as the global supply of dead 747s climbs to unprecedented highs. The in-service arrival of next-generation widebody aircraft such as the Airbus A380 and the Boeing 747-8 means that several hundred of today's oldest 747s -- mostly 747-200 models built during the 1970s that are currently used as air freighters -- will soon be headed out to pasture.