Saturday, July 5, 2008

Woman's “Wing House” takes flight in Malibu

By John Rogers

The neighborhood already has a house that scientists say looks like a giant atom smasher, and nearby there is another that is perched on a cylindrical tower and looks like a flying saucer. Yet when Francie Rehwald moves into her new digs sometime next year, she'll have them both beat.

Rehwald will be the only person on her block living inside a house built from the recycled parts of a Boeing 747 airliner.

After more than a year of delays, Rehwald's dream finally began to take off Thursday as a large helicopter passed overhead with half of one of her future house's wings dangling from a wire beneath its belly.

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