Robert's Bookshop, a used bookstore in Lincoln City, Ore., has bought the nose cone of a Boeing 727 at auction and is attaching it to the store, the News Guard reported. The nose cone was delivered yesterday.
Owner Bob Portwood told the paper, "I watch the state surplus auctions. I was looking and one day they had something listed under airplane. So I looked and it was the front end of a 727. I thought, 'Well that's cool.' "
He asked his daughter Diana if it was "a stupid idea" to buy the nose cone and attach it to the store--and she said, "No!" She noted that her father wants to stock aviation books in the cockpit, to which customers will have access.