Isn't that a bit risky? Is the idea that his YouTube popularity will mean the council won't say no?
Also, Bmibaby, what a blast from the past
He aims to apply for retrospective planning permission on the project, which he hopes to have finished by February.
If I had to, I'd bet he's had a conversation with a local planner and had a nod and a wink already.
(It's much cheaper to just build a parking garage-type structure or use precast covers, but concrete pipes can give you that hobbit-hole you need.)
https://www.countymaterials.com/pipe-and-underground-infrast...
Yes, I have spent way too much time on this.
This is the best feedback he could get to be sure it will run well you YT.
Quite literally the opposite of flying environment... in the ground.
So if the objective is a pure folly for youtube channel. Grand success. Any real utility as a useful structure? Just no.
Though the thing is only barely buried so I suppose it doesn't actually have much external pressure to deal with.
https://www.reddit.com/r/abandoned/comments/1x4yw6y/inside_t...
On the up-side, it looks like it's going into a concrete clad hole so may have a cavity not be buried in soil. It won't be permeable like basement walls that suck water out of the ground. I guess it's aluminium/titanium so won't be red dust by spring but can still corrode in some fashion depending on ph/oxygen. Could there be steel in things like fasteners?
Oh, and it's a tube... no idea how they've sealed the ends.
Even this is the first time someone actually does it.
I for sure hope the guy hires good engineers to do the actual calculation and the whole "I don't know what I'm doing" is just for the show.
There is a lot you could do, like neoprene barriers on the skin of the fuselage, sacrificial anodes, spray sealant on the poured concrete. But at that point, you might as well not even have the fuselage and just build a regular, ol' concrete bunker.