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Re:Boom Wants to Bring Supersonic Civilian Travel Back by pcl on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @02:43PM (#12790474)
I think it'd be pretty tough to get a plane's worth of bags from the hold to anything resembling an orderly display within 120 seconds of the first person getting off the flight. Let's assume that the collection location needs to be at least twice the wingspan of the plane. That's 400 feet for a 787, or 140 feet for a 737. There's a benefit to consistency at a given site, so let's stick with the 400-foot number. That's 90 seconds right there at typical walking speed (3 mph). So, to meet the SLA, we'd probably need to open up the entire hold, length-wise, rather than pulling out bags from one or two doors. I'm not an aeronautical engineer, but designing a door into the length of the fuselage seems like it could be on the same order of complexity as designing a plane for supersonic travel.
Re:Boom Wants to Bring Supersonic Civilian Travel Back by icebraining on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @03:24PM (#12790866)
Let's assume that the collection location needs to be at least twice the wingspan of the plane.

Why? But in any case, you could have a fast conveyor belt directly from the plane to the location, no need to carry them by hand.

Re:Boom Wants to Bring Supersonic Civilian Travel Back by ghaff on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @03:47PM (#12791062)
Meanwhile in the real world you have the automated baggage system that they attempted to install in Denver.

http://calleam.com/WTPF/?page_id=2086