A 747 window frame?

This authentic, certified, window frame from a 747 immediately caught my eye. Then I had to ask: "What the heck do you do with it?" I've installed portholes from an old ship in my home, but this? How would you use it?

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I hear rectangles with rounded corners are “in” these days.
http://twitter.com/KoshiirRa Marty M

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http://www.facebook.com/bobcrackerlacker Bob Price

Put a sheet of glass over the top, some legs and you got yourself a pretty bitchin’ coffee table!
- http://www.landtglass.com/ Daniel
  
  Airplane coffee table? Paint the floor like the inside of an airplane too?
BDiamond

Use it as a picture frame for a shot of the “gremlin” from “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet.”
- http://www.youtube.com/user/Freethinkersanon Christopher
  
  Damn. I was going to suggest installing it as a window in your house then, during dinner parties, running to it and screaming, “THERE’S A MAN ON THE WING!”
  - Marlin Mixon
    
    Or something similar would be to have a screen behind it showing constantly moving Simpsons-style clouds.
- http://boingboing.net/ Jason Weisberger
  
  If only it came with Shatner!
- Brainspore
  
  Or turn it over to get a sense of how terrifying that ordeal must have been from the gremlin’s point of view.
  - http://boingboing.net/ Jason Weisberger
    
    You Rule!
  - welcomeabored
    
    Leave it to Brainspore to flip the subject over and make it funny (welcome back!)
    
    That image mounted on either side of the front door, the bathroom door, the toilet seat lid, the bedroom ceiling, the refrigerator, the trunk of a car, used as a panel for a briefcase or luggage. Make the image a transparency and hang it at the corners like a stained glass window to share with the neighbors.
http://thisisonlya.blogspot.com robcat2075

Test if you would fit through it in the event of a window failure and subsequent loss of cabin pressure.
big ryan

oven door retrofit, thats what i would want to do anyways
http://www.facebook.com/dpease Dave Pease

the purpose of this item is to give you an easy segue to tell people you’ve installed boat windows in your house.
Michael Escobar

skylight.
Donald Petersen

Good to know the aftermarket’s there to help the next time some miscreant busts a window to swipe the tape deck out of my jumbo jet.
Radiodiffusion Internasionaal

Forget the window frame… Did you see the pair of First Class seats? For $2,450.00, that’s cheaper than flying anywhere First Class – and you get to keep the seats.
- Brainspore
  
  You could sneak them on the plane as carry-on luggage and fly EVERYWHERE First Class!
http://twitter.com/jmck John McKenzie

I would assume these would be fairly energy efficient compared to regular storm windows. So, buy a row and build them into your cabin Up North.
Souse

Mount it on the wall and attach the bottom half of a Gert Fröbe manikin dressed in a ’60′s era Army uniform.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_P3QRJAUYF3U2FPZMU4FK25L6GI Yeti Yeti

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http://flic.kr/p/GuAe
Antinous / Moderator

Glory hole for elephant stable.
cellocgw

It all started with one lone 747 window, then I bought a seat, and then… just like Johnny Cash http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb9F2DT8iEQ
, there I was with a 7{4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12}7 of my own.
seyo

you can put a bird on it and just call it art.
Hubertus

loo seat?
Mike Sperry

many years ago my dad acquired the aluminum cutouts from some airliner windows (the part that is removed). We used them in the oven as pizza pans, and other baking needs. I wonder what happened to those.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001443259034 David Davion

Mirror Frame
nettdata

flat-screen display behind the window, with a running aquarium app/display. Live your submerged aircraft dreams, full-on Airport ’77 style.
Mark Neumayer

Use as testing device to figure out how to make windows on plane open?
Diogenes

Moon roof!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Joel-Turner/679875041 Joel Turner

I think you need to build a real Maker display out of this, place a screen behind it attached to a motion sensor, when people get too curious William Shatner’s face appears screaming.
Maureen

You could incorporate it into your countertop – the opening itself could be put over your kitchen sink.
Atvaark

I’d frame an icon with it.