Our local aviation museum came up with this strange use for one of their retired 747's, they mounted it on the roof of a future water park of all things! Just thought everyone would like to see it! However, I do kind of think it's a little degrading to subject this beautiful old grand dame to such indignities as being part of a water slide in it's final 'retirement'.http://www.katu.com/news/92705654.html

Hah, strange indeed...looks out of place there.

Did they paint the livery just for the park?

Did they paint the livery just for the park?

I think that it's one of their actual liveries. I've seen the Evergreen Aviation 747 Fire Bomber Supertanker with a slightly similar paint job. I've also got that very livery in my old RFP 747-200 FS9 aircraft add-on.

Here's another funny one I remember as a kid when I lived in Portland, Oregon. It was a major roadside attraction in it's heyday, the B-17 Bomber Gas Station.http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2968However, the station closed a few years ago and this is what has happened in the interim. I was kind of wondering lately what had happened to it.http://www.warbirdinformationexchange.org/...f=3&t=34371Kind of sad to see it falling apart with age and all the damage from parts scavenging. I seem to remember that the forward and top gun turrets ended up in the still flying B-17 'Sentimental Journey'.