lower fuel usage, wider seats, better views.
Tag: airplane
Peak Flying
In 2008, Singapore Airlines introduced their Suites Class, the most luxurious class of flying that is commercially available. The Suites were exclusive to their flagship Airbus A380, and they go beyond flat beds by offering enclosed private cabins with sliding doors that cocoon you in your own little lap of luxury. The interior was designed by French luxury yacht designer Jean-Jacques Coste and comes along with a plush soft leather armchair hand-stitched by the Italian master craftsmen Poltrona Frau. Perhaps most well-known of all, Singapore Airlines became the first and only commercial airline with a double bed in the sky.

New Airplane torture devices
new seating for cattle class: bike saddles.
Sky Whale
755 passengers, could land on existing runways. someone needs to do a spacex for the airline industry (which has been stagnant for decades)
Compared to the typical wing used today, the active wings will be longer from tip to tip, with an active air flow control system – eccentric turbine inside the wing near to the fuselage – which could redirect the laminar air flow and turbulences and at the same time produce electric energy for the hybrid engines (4 oversize electric-fuel engines). Projected advances in battery technology enable a unique, hybrid turbo-electric propulsion system.
from punchscreens to touchscreens

my first flight with a display that actually reacts to your touch, and has usb charging to boot. progress!
Expensive Boeing
starting at $76M. kinda crazy to think some of their models set you back $350M, and what do you get for all of that? not a ton of leg room and stale pretzels.
Giant RC airplanes
people in switzerland have weird hobbies.
VTOL Airport
this looks promising if they can get the noise under control. it always seemed absurd to me how you are spending nearly the same amount of time just getting to the airport as flight time. this would give me an airport 2 blocks away 🙂

Jetpacks
sales for rescue operations will start in 2014, and sales to individuals shortly after.
Child-free cabins
We can dream.