Just a concept for now, the Airborne Hotel also known as abh, is creating a flutter in the skies with its impending application. It’s an innovative seating system for wide-body aircraft that optimizes the available cabin space in the lines of double-decker system. Roomy and ensuring a fully-reclining seat-bed for every passenger on board, this concept maintains and even increases the passenger capacity of an aircraft. Entry for the ‘Create the Future Design Contest’ this is conceptualized by a team of Mexican-based designers and engineers.
The design’s functionality is based on the bi-level configuration of its seating modules, which enables the utilization of the otherwise empty overhead space in an aircraft cabin. . This kind of modular system will offer luxurious freedom without throwing its weight on the aircraft because the modules’ honeycomb structure enables the use of lighter materials Not exactly a luxury concept but then who said that comfort isn’t luxury?

With such well designed seating options, air-travelers can chuck their “crammed space woes” outside the aircraft’s cabin. Here’s for passengers to get a more comfortable flight, without their airfares skyrocketing.
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Can you recall the Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic Mothership? News is today Virgin Founder, Sir Richard Branson and SpaceShipOne designer, Burt Rutan, hauled back the barn doors on the novel WhiteKnightTwo (WK2) carrier airliner. Touted as the world’s largest all carbon fused jumbo jet, the vehicle can ride at an utmost elevation of 50,000 ft and its U.S. coast-to-coast assortment will enable the spacecraft to be send out on long interval voyage. Driven by four Pratt and Whitney PW308A engines, the WhiteKnight2 is an airplane that will commence SpaceShipTwo into suborbital space.

The flight for WK2 will commence once it reaches an apposite juncture in a broad test program that has by now begun with ground tests. The flight test program will be all-inclusive even prior to SpaceShipTwo is approved as a consignment for the first time in 2009. It is being told that Richard Branson and his family will be the first one to bore the flight that will last 2.5-hours with five minutes of weightlessness before the craft reaches back to Earth.

Via Wired / CrunchGear

Japan Airlines (JAL) has developed a revolutionary and ultra comfortable seating for JAL first class and a new seat for their business class that would be established on US routes. The airline will commence the JAL Suite in first class and the JAL Shell Flat Neo Seat in business class once the airline initiates new 777-300ER aircraft on US routes, opening with the Tokyo-New York route on 1 August, 2008. Against current models, the First Class suites of JAL would be now 20% more roomy and are set in a 1-2-1 configuration. The seats of first class suite comes gray leather that can be converted into a full-flat bed.

At a 180° spot the seat coalesces with an ottoman positioned at the reverse end of the cubicle to create one of the prime and most comfortable sleeping areas in first class. And turn it into an upright position, which enables the ottoman offer a seating for the guest.
The descending table can be positioned connecting the seat and ottoman. Every suite comes with Bose noise-reducing earphones and an individual 19-inch personal TV screen and shipment spaces for bags and small items plus a laptop power point. The very presence in the suite would privilege them with the offerings off the menu at any time. If feels like taking a nap, a cabin assistant can put a Tempur-Pedic mattress on the seat bed along with a down eiderdown, a pillow along with a special JAL loungewear.

Coming to innovative business class seat, it tilts back to 171 degrees and comes equipped with a 15.4 inch personal TV screen. The business class cabin also features the “Sky Gallery,” with one wall reflecting a pictorial display that will be frequently altered over the year. The primary exhibit, in alliance with Fuji Film, will be a sequence of shoots of forests in Japan called ‘Forest Forever’.

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