Re:Flying-V: Flying long distances energy-efficiently
by nradov on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @02:41PM
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The problem is the amount of vertical movement which will be the same regardless of seat orientation. Passengers will feel sick.
Re:Flying-V: Flying long distances energy-efficiently
by dTal on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @04:29PM
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The angular change is negligible in either case. The problem is you're ping-ponging vertically. For example, a 3 degree bank correction in an aircraft with a 70 meter wingspan will move each wingtip by 1.3 meters vertically.
Re:Flying-V: Flying long distances energy-efficiently
by alkonaut on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @05:11PM
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In the picture, the passenger cabin appears to be using only 1/3 of the wingspan, so the vertical movement of the outermost passengers (in the last row) will be much smaller than the vertical movement of the wingtips.
A last row width of 25m is much wider than the 5m of a conventional aircraft, but much smaller than 70m.
What if the seats far from the axis of rotation faced sideways instead of forward? People don't seem to be as affected by pitch changes as they are by roll changes, probably because we are get a lot of exposure to pitch changes whenever we drive in a hilly area.