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Maybe it's not practical enough to build such big flying wings in reality. But they still look cool, aren't they?
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Maybe it's not practical enough to build such big flying wings in reality. But they still look cool, aren't they?
They didn't follow though with it because, although the design is significantly more efficient than modern airliners, because passengers on each side of the plane can only evacuate from one side, it was basically impossible for the plane to comply with evacuation speed safety requirements.
That's what I remember anyway.
Unfortunately the issue with blended wing bodies, at the moment, is the difficulty to add emergency exits. After all, climbing up stairs to get to the top of a wing won’t work well for a water evacuation
Is that pic real the first one?
Yea, I think what Dann810 is trying to convey is that due to the width of the plane and passenger cabin, the people seated along the outter rows will experience a LOT more movement when the plane banks/rolls, due to their position being further away from the center axis.
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I had seen... somewhere... it pitched to have there be seating only in the center of the plane like current airliners use, and then equip screens instead of windows. (I feel like this was a discussion that took place in the comments of someone's plane here, actually)
That would require multiple decks in order to keep everyone seated along the centerline, however, now that no one would be outboard, all that room is free for cargo/luggage, so it offsets itself and capacity isn't really lost.
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Of course, now you contend with the huge expense of electronics going bad with the inclusion of a large screen for every row of seats, plus multiple decks which multiplies the number of rows. Just as well, the various number of cameras needed, to provide those views for people. (Thankfully you'd only need a dozen, and everyone would get the same view, but could change between which camera their screen taps into [likely want to keep L and R sides to their respective sides, so that the plane doesn't loook like it's traveling the wrong way lol])
And, of course, there's still the problem of emergency evacuation routes... :\
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Still, I'd say just make the planes smaller. Less people, less room to fit more than 2 decks, means easy access to top and bottom of the plane for emergency exits. PLUS, with all that room on the wings, you'd then have lots of cargo space. If these are extremely more efficient, it could replace Over The Road long haul deliveries by having those passenger flights have ample room to carry lots of bulk cargo. ;)
this is cool
@jamesPLANESii yah, I remember some articles also said that those passengers in the outer seats might experience airsick as well, and also most of the passengers have to withstand in the middle of the crowd (like up to 500 persons or so, imagine having a seat in a flying stadium lol). That might be a pretty bad experience on such aircraft.
Wingspan?
I ususally dont even like planes but T
I love how they built it then realized, “wait we need engines. Eh lets. Just stick a few on the back with barely anything holding it there, it will be fineeeee”
This makes me want to cry, t
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also what the hell is this
@BeastHunter T
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Tea please