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Could go the other way as well, the publicity causing them to do things the "right way".

Which is why these installs usually involve all sorts of external waterproofing, concrete encasement, galvanic/cathodic protections & sacrificial anodes, drainage systems, and interior climate control. They don't just bury the expensive fuselage and call it a day.

Wanted to check how long the process would take buried naked and cursory search is maybe 5 to 15 years. Sooner with wet weather.

It's sitting on a concrete base and will have concrete pours around it.

Which is only a problem if it’s in contact with the soil.

It's often easier to get retroactive planning permission, and I suspect an underground bunker isn't as likely to get denied as something more visible.

I take it they aren't a huge Colin Furze fan, unlike yourself?

Colin furze was there to help lower the plane

Pretty sure they've done stuff together on YouTube.

They have a YouTube channel, so I'm sure it is just as much for views as anything else.

It's... the very first line of the article

> When asked why he had lifted a section of a former plane into the ground in his back garden, Dave Billings shrugged his shoulders and said: "Why not?"

Tbh I'm not entirely sure I'd trust a partial plane body to have the mechanical strength for the job. In flight the pressure is pushing out not in, and I assume that's what the thing is designed for.

Though the thing is only barely buried so I suppose it doesn't actually have much external pressure to deal with.

I think the planning permission issue is probably even more pressing

There's also a bunch of other videos of other stages of the project up to this point.

Few minutes in and he is mixing concrete: Too much water in this concrete mix. Wrong kind of sand as well... Luckily he seems to have had a professional mix the concrete for the walls, etc.

Ideally, tank your hole with a membrane and pump. Only a noob garden-plane-in-hole owner would crane it in without one! Bit late now.

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.

With a large sheet of plastic I suppose. Which apparently they forgot to add.