Plane on m5: huge boeing 727 aeroplane travels down uk motorway
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Once the plane arrived, the craft was then lifted with a 60-metre crane on to shipping containers. The containers were to be "painted to look like clouds" so the aircraft
"appears as though it is flying". Mr Palmer said Pytch "needed more space" and therefore he decided the company would use the decommissioned plane. He told the BBC:
"So rather than do resource and carbon-intensive construction, we decided to re-purpose the icon of unsustainable hyper-consumption - the airliner private jet."