Airbus files patent for bicycle seating

[underfire]

Those crazy guys at Airbus have been keeping the Patent Office busy!

https://s.yimg.com/ea/img/-/140715/airbuspatent2_19s9b69-19s9b6h.jpg

Original document: US2014159444 (A1) ― 2014-06-12
SEATING DEVICE COMPRISING A FORWARD-FOLDABLE BACKREST

[VH-Cheer Up]

And the passengers are all naked men? How very European Union of them.

[Skyjob]

The LCC's will be jumping for joy if produced...
Maybe only usable for short flights though.

[FERetd]

It must be Tour de France time!

[sapperkenno]

Perhaps it's for use on the A400M, for cramming in troops, as opposed to holidaymakers going on their jollies?

[catiamonkey]

My read of the actual patent is that it's not for bicycle seating exactly. The problem they state is that when seat pitch is reduced, it's hard to climb over seats to the windows. The traditional solution is what they do at movie theaters: the seat pan folds up. But if the seat bottom is thick and contoured, this doesn't work.

Their solution is that the backrest rises up and forward taking the seat pan with it, so the whole thing becomes vertical.

You know, I swear I've seen something like this in a park or a bus stop and sat in it. Designed to prevent trash from being left on it when people aren't sitting on it.

[dubbleyew eight]

brace position anyone?
the injuries in a crash would be horrendous.

[Gargleblaster]

The occupants would naturally be outfitted with a bicycle helmet !

[tdracer]

Washington Post take on the patent application:

Airbus wants to patent the most uncomfortable plane seats ever

I think turning that into a 9g seat could be challenging. Given the saddle sores I've sometimes gotten after a one hour bike ride, I hope EASA/FAA laugh them out of the room :=

[underfire]

Remember these from a couple of years ago? Wasnt Ryanair looking at using these?

http://i.usatoday.net/money/_photos/2010/09/10/seats10x.jpg

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/09/21/business/Road2/Road2-articleInline.jpg

[roulishollandais]

Concentration with the last BZ shower :yuk:

[GGR155]

Checks calendar, astonished to find it is not April 1st

[underfire]

wait until they figure out that if you turn one barstool upside down, it seats 4.

[roulishollandais]

5N-BKO Afrijet Airlines McDonnell Douglas MD-83 - cn 49855 / ln 1728 - Planespotters.net Just Aviation (http://www.planespotters.net/Production_List/McDonnell-Douglas/MD-80/49855,5N-BKO-Afrijet-Airlines.php)
One of "my" MD-83 Jet Alsace has been sold to transport prisoners. Sad. Perhaps they tested these seats!!! Since Daimler-Benz (15% ? Airbus) used theirfreight waggons to Auschwitz nothing changed:{

[roulishollandais]

Like that :
http://model38.pagesperso-orange.fr/galere_romaine4.gif

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