Re:Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since ...
by alwa on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @12:38AM
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I’m reminded of Eero Saarinen’s “mobile lounges” at Washington’s Dulles Airport
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/dulles-airport-mobile-lo...
Re:Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since ...
by robotresearcher on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @02:28PM
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Each one has to be a pressure vessel, so either we have a bunch more pressure doors on the plane, or each one has its own toilet, galley and staff. Sounds expensive.
Re:Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since ...
by timewizard on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @02:42PM
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One giant pressure door vs several small ones. The sacrifice, and why this wouldn't work all that well, is evacuation.
Re:Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since ...
by robotresearcher on Friday February 14, 2025 @01:47PM
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Just realized a plane already has a few extra pressure doors I'd forgotten about for emergency exit.
And yes, evacuation issues kill the idea.
Seriously. Just have the whole passenger section setup like cargo pallets and wheel them in and out of the plane. Why bother walking up and down a narrow aisle? Just have a "passenger marshalling facility" away from the airport, have the interior section in parts there, have everyone comfortably load up, put that on a bus, wheel that straight to the plane, then load them in like large scale cargo through a huge side door.
Lock them down and send them wherever. Do the same in reverse at the destination.