Posted on 09/15/2010 4:18:04 AM PDT by mattstat
Cowboys on airplanes
No doubt channeling Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood, the Italian design firm Aviointeriors Group has created a new airline seat dubbed the “saddle.” Ride them skies! What makes this seat interesting is that an airline can fit more of them into a plane than they can ordinary seats.
Even on budget flights, the average legroom is about 30 inches. But the saddle seat allows only 23. I just measured from the backside of my sculpted self to my knee and it’s just under 26 inches. It’s true that I am a taller specimen than most, but I’m also a mathematician and my calculations show that it’s impossible to fit 26 inches into 23. Saddle Seat
But that’s only if you sit so that your back makes a right angle with your legs, and if you face forward. Tilt the seat so that you’re more standing than sitting, and angle the seat toward the aisle, and the math turns into trigonometry, and thus it becomes possible for 26 to divide into 23.
Since the seat has the cattle—I mean passengers—standing as much as sitting, in order to keep kiesters from slipping out onto the floor, an athletic-supporter-like device—a prominent bump—is installed in the seat just forward of where a person’s crotch lands. This “saddle” pins the person into their seat.
Now comes the lying for a living part. Dominique Menoud, the boss of Aviointeriors, told USA Today “For flights anywhere from one to possibly even up to three hours … this would be comfortable seating…The seat … is like a saddle. Cowboys ride eight hours on their horses during the day and still feel comfortable in the saddle.” I wonder if Menoud’s mother knows he says such things in public?
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Oh, that really looks comfortable. NOT!
Note: comfortable chairs for the home or work are NOT designed as saddles.
And imagine a saddle for a long car trip?
Oh wait, the saddle conforms to the horse!
So what is the motivation for an “Air Saddle?” other than squeezing people into small and small spaces?
Claustrophbia!
there was no room for the O in phobia.....
Why not just inject us all with short-term-coma-inducing drugs and stack us like logs in the cargo hold?
Sorry, but the airlines lost me the last time they reduced leg room by another inch. I’ll continue my boycott. Please join me.
SNORT!! Lmao!!!
You owe me a new keyboard...:-)
She looks comfortable!
Yet another reason I’d rather take the train . . .
Can you imagine trying to eveacuate a sardine can plane like that in an emergency?
I dont see how you could even get up to use the facilities if you had a window seat with these things. Ridiculous!
Where am I suppose to put my balls?
I have arthritis in my back, and those seats look like just the thing to cause it to flare up. I sit with my knees elevated to take as much pressure off my lower back as possible.
Those seats look designed to induce claustrophobic panic attacks.
Even for people without medical issues, those don’t look comfortable at all.
Plus, there is no room for carry-ons. I usually bring my lap top, a little DVD player, and a tote filled with various reading materials, my purse, and lunch. There is no way that’s all fitting under those seats!
I’m fairly certain those seats aren’t going to be used widely any time soon—the customers just aren’t going to tolerate it.
Don’t like it, don’t fly with them. Airlines are not public service.
Yet another reason I’d rather take the train . . .
ROTFLMAO!!!!
Well Welcome Aboard!!!
I can tell you from my own first hand experience that you really are a "BraveMan"
If History is said to repeat itself, we are proven to be on the right track,
But we are currently riding through very hostile territory,
so be prepared for the savages who will shoot flaming arrows at your caboose!!!
LOL!!!
Absolutely. The market will sort this out.
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