A new way to travel?

Why don\'t you just stagger the seat compartments like this:


Then you can have the same amount of seats as the conventional plane setup, but with the extra leg room.



Then you also have the option of well placed steps with railing to the upper cabin, like this:



Let me know if you would like to buy the rights to this design build.  E-mail:  juslight@hotmail.com

I\'m cheap.

It\'ll never happen. Like many people have already said: People fear change.

It looks cool, but for the amount of overweight, handicapped, or physically uncabable this idea isnt good.

Originally posted by Celis555
Regarding the ladders, what about escalators?  They are in every shopping mall and in every department store you visit, just to name a few places, and people of all ages and physical conditions use them.  They have signs that warn us that using them can be dangerous and advising us on how to use them properly.  It’s not common to hear of a company going out of business because of so many lawsuits due to escalator accidents.  

I\'ll just argue this point, because it\'s the one I feel I know the most about what I\'m trying to say.  An escalator and a ladder are two totally different things.  In an escalator, as in stairs, your center of gravity is constantly over something you can stand directly on.  As far as balance goes, it\'s not much different from walking on flat ground.  On a ladder, your center of gravity is not over anything solid, and thus you have to pull yourself into the ladder to prevent falling.  You can\'t easily just stand there, without using your hands, and not fall off the ladder.  Ladders are much more dangerouns, especially in rough air, and would be accidents waiting to happen, if you ask me.  The stair design juslight illustrated would be much more effective, in my opinion.

Also, don\'t forget that people wouldn\'t just be climbing these things free handed.  Most people fly with carry on bags.  Sure, most people can climb a ladder (although not many would want to), but climbing a ladder in a crowded setting, as that of people entering and exiting the plane, with bags in hand, seems dangerous.  

And juslight, I fail to see how staggering the seats would in any way increase leg room.

His plan boasts more leg room than regular plane seating, but he had to stack 2 or 3 high to get as many passengers.  I was just saying that if he used the "Honeycomb" design it would be more efficient.

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I agree with your technical explanation regarding the difference between stairways and ladders, but I don’t agree with your reasoning that stairways are safer than ladders.  

I don’t believe that stairways on 747s and A380s, for example, are any safer than the ladders proposed in the ABH design.  Or, for that matter, escalators aren’t very safe either.  It’s true, they are stairways, but they are usually very long; they move; they have pointy, jagged edges; and they are made of hard metallic material. I’m a fit and careful person, and I’ve lost my balance in escalators more than once.  In my opinion, they’re much more dangerous than the ladders we propose in the ABH design.

About baggage, passengers—even those traveling in the third tiers—will be able to get their carry on luggage up to their seat before climbing the ladder.  This is possible because the design permits for the third tiers to be roughly as high as baggage compartments in conventional airplane cabins are today, which are set at about eye level of an average height male.  In fact, this would be even better, because passengers would not have to lift their bags over the unprotected heads of other sitting passengers in order to place them in the baggage compartment.

juslight:

I think that stair design would be an obstruction for the aisles.

[Titan]

Racer-"Do you work for the company? Your only a new member and seem to know alot about this new technology, just curious if you had anything to do with it."

Just because he\'s new doesn\'t mean he knows jack shit. He may take an interest in this so he did a lot of research.

You\'re right, Titan, I\'ve done a lot of research.