Airbus files patent for 'flying doughnut' plane design which would see passengers board by escalator

UK Daily Mail ^ | November 18, 2014 | Chris Kitching

[C19fan]

Rip off of the Horton brothers, :)

[keat]

I was electing a flying donut. It ain’t.

[keat]

Excuse me, expecting.

[SolidRedState]

This is a joke, right?

[Tucker39]

Looks like a lot of wasted space. Higher fares to pay for the fuel... unless it has more than 1 level. Nobody actually has a window seat. Even those near the windows have their backs to them.

Leave it to the French! It was THEIR ancestors who invented sodomy, wasn’t it? And isn’t that the epidome of doing it incorrectly?

Like the tee shirt I saw on a biker chick on the back of a Harley, “If you think sex is a pain in the @$$, you’re doing it wrong!”

[central_va]

Police everywhere approve.

[rfreedom4u]

That reminds me of a story my 70 year old aunt told.

Someone at her work had brought in a chocolate dessert and said it was called “better than sex.” She replied, “You must not be doing it right.”

[cloudmountain]

Hmmmm, adding bells and whistles, nothing more.
I read price hikes.

[ryan71]

This is like a middle-schooler’s science project.

[Cyman]

Rather smart design copying one of natures most durable and free flow objects, the red blood cell.

[Dr. Sivana]

I was electing a flying donut. It ain’t.

Sure it is, it just has a couple of Arby's Turnovers attached.

[central_va]

[camle]

bernouli principle? lifting fuselage?

[Oliviaforever]

[wrench]

Flying wing incorporating area rule design

[Poison Pill]

and they would enjoy more space on flights.

HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA

[Toespi]

I’m a little concerned about the escalator......if someone trips up ahead, can you imagine a 100 people pileup?

[Right Brother]

Mmmmmmmm!

[Organic Panic]

As a recovering aircraft manufacturing engineer this will not get off paper. Maybe a proof of concept wind tunnel model or even flying prototype some day but ver doubtful. But I doubt the aeronautics dept would even waste their time analyzing the air flow over tgat massive drag inducing hole. The patent will be there just in case. It can not meet regulations for emergency exit so that kills it right off the bat.

By the way, the comb over is patented. So is sticking dog medicine in hot dogs.

[mosesdapoet]

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