Airbus ’s notable patents from the last few years reads like a leaning of failed aerospace Kickstarters : standing - elbow room - only aircraft , bicycle saddle instead of real seats , orVR headsetsto escape the awful reality of coach . Is it possible to go more challenging ? Airbus ’s R&D section says yes .
A patent filed in 2013 but approved yesterday ( and make out byWired ) find Airbus improve the turnaround time of aeroplane . Rather than dealing with all that hassle of unloading and reloading passengers and luggage , Airbus just splits the airplane in two : a passenger / luggage compartment , and then the primary part of the aircraft that does the flying . It ’s like hitching up a shipping container to a semi motortruck , only in this case the merchant marine container is full of hoi polloi , and the semi truck cruises at 30,000 metrical unit .
To Airbus ’s course credit , this musical theme would probably improve reversion time , which it sprain would increase profit make flying inexpensive for everyone : the more time the aircraft spends fly , the less money an airline waste .
But equally , it would require redesigning entire aircraft terminals , buying new fleets of plane , and waiting around while a crane winches you into position — not to bring up adding a raw and exciting kind of airline fortuity when the passenger compartment suddenly lose its wing .
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