Sometimes you just really need to get it away from it all, but Blake Morton and Abbie Morris are ridiculous. They purchased an old helicopter and spent 900 hours transforming it into a heli-camper.
Morton and Morris are both helicopter pilots for the U.S. Coast Guard, so I guess it makes a little more sense now. They bought the inoperative helicopter on Facebook from a Florida man.
Now it's making so much more sense.
The couple managed to find some old photos of the helicopter in action. It was used by both the German military police and then by U.S. troops in Afghanistan, and now, it's going to take this crazy couple glamping.
Yes, glamping.
They've tricked the old bird out with indoor and outdoor speakers, cable hookups, and the television even swivels, so they can watch TV from the bed or the kitchen.
Of course, these Coast Guard pilots weren't the first to imagine a helicopter being used as a recreational camper. Winnebago had a line of helicopter campers in the 1970s. Unlike the coastguard couple's conversion camper, the heli-home could actually fly and float on water, making it the ultimate vacation vehicle.
At a price tag roughly equivalent to $930,000 to $1.5 million in today's dollars, Winnebago only sold 8 of these bad boys in 1976. Renting one costed roughly $10,000 per day, not including a pilot and fuel.
In retrospect, it might have been a poor decision to release the heli-home during the heights of President Carter's hyper-inflation extravaganza.
And given the similarities of the current administration's and Carter's economic policies, maybe Morton and Morris's trailer-towed inoperative conversion heli-camper is the more reasonable option.
Honestly though, going camping in a heli-anything sounds pretty cool. This summer watch out for the Retrops family's heli-van toting our heli-tent.
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