Airbus patents designs for convertible plane

[Wonde Tadesse]

Not sure.[^] :~

Wonde Tadesse

[Weylyn Cadwell]

Didn't they do the same thing with the "round seated" plane design? I'm assuming it's an idea that someone wrote on a paper airplane and threw it, then they made a patent "just in case."

[Wonde Tadesse]

I'm not worried about the patent. Just the idea, who will fly. Unless he/she is a daredevil.

Wonde Tadesse

[k5054]

Didn't Boeing already do that?

[Wonde Tadesse]

May be. Don't know.

Wonde Tadesse

[Kevin Marois]

I'm wondering how they'll get all the dead bodies off, you know, from all the people who died of Hypoxemia when the plane reached altitude. Nice gag though.

If it's not broken, fix it until it is

[9082365]

Kevin Marois wrote:

Nice gag though.

I can't work out whether that's a joke, a meta-joke, or a meta-meta-joke. The patent is quite real ... see slide 2 ... and ultimately Airbus is aiming at a top deck that is open[^] at least in the sense that the majority of it will be transparent.

[Lost User]

You really didn't think it was going to fly with the top open, did you?