New Sleeper Cabin Concept Unveiled

Plenty of planes have had upper berths. Curtiss Condor, Douglas Sleeper Transport, Boeing 307, Boeing 314, Lockheed Constellation, Boeing 377, Panagra DC-8, Philippines 747-200… I am sure I missed many.

Any planes of ‘today’ that have the high customer comfort levels and the higher safety standards? :rolleyes::)

Difficult considering that half the passengers would have to climb into their seats, ie go up some type of ladders to reach their seats. Totalle impractical for kids, elderly and other disables passengers. That said, Im all for it (at least until I reach my 70s).

Plenty of planes have had upper berths. Curtiss Condor, Douglas Sleeper Transport, Boeing 307, Boeing 314, Lockheed Constellation, Boeing 377, Panagra DC-8, Philippines 747-200… I am sure I missed many.

This concept sounds good to me. However I don’t see much room left for the overhead bins……

As for the safety issues, I assume that the designers took it into account.

I quite like the concept, though I suspect regulators may have some issues with it when they come to undertake evacuation trials.

Already mentioned

See:
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=83349

How much headroom do you think is needed between floor and ceiling?

I wonder how they intend to make the emergency evacuation deadlines with that setup.

The futrue Club World seats are here:diablo:

Climbing over two people from a window seat to get to the toilet is bad enough, but I think climbing over one then down some steps is worse! Looks good though 😀

I doubt they’ll find many buyers in here…… :diablo:

There’s more about this here: http://www.createthefuturecontest.com/pages/view/entriesdetail.html?entryID=1347

And for those that cannot see the pictures very well I put them into Photobucket:

Personally I would be happy to use it if it ever came about, but looking at it from a health and safety perspective, I don’t think it would be very practical in the event of an emergency evacuation. Congrats to the designer/s for creating an innovative design concept though.

Its difficult to judge the space alloted for those capsules but i think it may work.

Difficult considering that half the passengers would have to climb into their seats, ie go up some type of ladders to reach their seats. Totalle impractical for kids, elderly and other disables passengers. That said, Im all for it (at least until I reach my 70s).

Its difficult to judge the space alloted for those capsules but i think it may work.

Very claustrophobic:eek: