- Plane Envy
When he was in his 40s, Bruce learned about Joanne Ussery, a hairdresser from Mississippi who had transformed a retired Boeing 727 airplane into a unique home. After her conventional home burned to the ground, she got fed up and moved into an airplane next to a relaxing lake.
Though he was already underway with his freight van plans, Campbell was struck with inspiration. He decided that a plane would be a lot more fun to tinker around with than vans, and he also had a conviction that turning an airplane into scrap was a real shame. He already had the land to put the plane on, but now he needed some funds to acquire the plane and haul it over to his plot in Oregon.