Posted on 11/18/2014 6:42:20 AM PST by C19fan
t’s a radical aircraft design that could one day see passengers flying in circles. Airbus has filed a patent application for an unusual concept plane that has been dubbed a ‘flying doughnut’. Instead of queuing on a jet bridge, passengers would board the UFO-like aircraft at ground level via an escalator and an ‘access hatch’, and they would enjoy more space on flights.
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I was electing a flying donut. It ain’t.
Excuse me, expecting.
Looks like a lot of wasted space. Higher fares to pay for the fuel... unless it has more than 1 level. Nobody actually has a window seat. Even those near the windows have their backs to them.
Leave it to the French! It was THEIR ancestors who invented sodomy, wasn’t it? And isn’t that the epidome of doing it incorrectly?
Like the tee shirt I saw on a biker chick on the back of a Harley, “If you think sex is a pain in the @$$, you’re doing it wrong!”
Police everywhere approve.
That reminds me of a story my 70 year old aunt told.
Someone at her work had brought in a chocolate dessert and said it was called “better than sex.” She replied, “You must not be doing it right.”
This is like a middle-schooler’s science project.
Rather smart design copying one of natures most durable and free flow objects, the red blood cell.
bernouli principle? lifting fuselage?
Flying wing incorporating area rule design
HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA
I’m a little concerned about the escalator......if someone trips up ahead, can you imagine a 100 people pileup?
Mmmmmmmm!
As a recovering aircraft manufacturing engineer this will not get off paper. Maybe a proof of concept wind tunnel model or even flying prototype some day but ver doubtful. But I doubt the aeronautics dept would even waste their time analyzing the air flow over tgat massive drag inducing hole. The patent will be there just in case. It can not meet regulations for emergency exit so that kills it right off the bat.
By the way, the comb over is patented. So is sticking dog medicine in hot dogs.
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