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10 unusual facts about Airstream


'Til Death

The fourth season focuses on the Starks adjusting to life with their daughter Ally (Kate Micucci) and new son-in-law Doug (Timm Sharp), who live in a biodiesel powered Airstream motorhome in the Starks' backyard.

During the shows 4th and final season she lives in a biodiesel powered Airstream motorhome in her parent's backyard with her boyfriend and later husband, Doug.

Airstream

The company was created by Wally Byam, a lawyer by training, who began building trailers out of Masonite in his backyard in Los Angeles during the late 1920s.

Ellen Spiro

After teaching for a year she embarked on her second year-long solo road trip (this time in a vintage Airstream trailer), to make Roam Sweet Home, funded by Channel Four in the UK and ITVS.

Landers, California

Kate's Lazy Desert Airstream Motel is an unusual 'motel camp' in Landers, composed of six vintage Airstream trailers restored by artists Maberry + Walker.

Legend of the Motorcycle

West Coast Choppers unveiled their Airstream Bike at the Legend show, which cost over $300,000 and was made for Airstream CEO, Bob Wheeler.

Mobile Quarantine Facility

The Mobile Quarantine Facility (MQF) is a converted Airstream trailer used by NASA to quarantine astronauts returning from Apollo lunar missions.

Mobilivre

Members of the collective present these works to the public in a series of traveling exhibitions that are held throughout the United States and Canada with the help of a vintage Airstream trailer.

Shalom in the Home

After driving up to each house in an Airstream trailer equipped with television monitors, cameras are installed, capturing footage of the family's dynamics.

StoryCorps

In May 2005, two StoryCorps MobileBooths built from converted Airstream trailers began traveling the country, recording stories in various cities year-round.


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Flettner rotor bomblet

Based on the vertical Flettner rotor which takes advantage of the Magnus effect, a force acting on a spinning body in a moving airstream, it was developed toward the end of the U.S. biological weapons program in the 1960s.

Thor Industries

Thor Industries, Inc. was founded on August 29, 1980, when Wade F. B. Thompson and Peter Busch Orthwein acquired Airstream.