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There are no actual airplane parts at the Boeing surplus store, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t other fascinating items to be found. Open on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday the store is located in Kent, Washington. Although much of the offerings are office-related (desks, chairs, computers), they do sell surplus airplane making supplies like upholstery, carpet, and tools. And the article claims they have, in the past, sold the “chicken cannon,” “a 10-foot-long pneumatic gun used at a test site to fire dead chickens at aircraft wings to check their resilience to fowl collisions.” There’s a conversation piece to end all conversation.

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