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Transparent Overhead Bins on planes mean that instead of worrying about a heavy bottle of whisky about to come down on you when you open the overhead luggage compartment, you can see what's in there, and if it's poised ready for a disaster.
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Good idea, although it would make the cabin look untidy.
Airlines typically style their cabins to look as uncluttered as
possible; seeing all the bin contents would be ugly. |
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Uglier than some of the passengers ? You won't have seen this personally, [MB], but the sort of carbon unit that travels in the cheap seats on commercial airliners are not just untidy, nor merely possessed of a degree of clock-stopping turning-the-milk-sour ugliness, but are also frequently foul mouthed, malodorous, and obnoxious. |
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Transparent panels in the overhead bins are nothing by comparison. |
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That is precisely why the good seats are at the front, facing
forward, and partitioned. |
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There could be some kind of LCD or polarizing layer that means the panelling could be electrically switched between transparent and opaque. |
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No, the regular opaque partition between the flight crew and the passengers works fine as it is. |
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// of clock-stopping turning-the-milk-sour
ugliness, but are also frequently foul mouthed,
malodorous, and obnoxious. |
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Ah, that would be me. Anyway, isn't this Sword
of Damocles (TM) territory? |
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More the Litre Bottle of Bacardi of Damocles, which may not be quite as deadly as having a sword dropped on your head, but is certainly capable of making you wish someone would, and quickly. |
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You could make the doors transparent but tinted or with a
semi-transparent mirror coating. That way you wouldn't be
able to see inside unless they were lit from within. All
interior lights could be switched on for
boarding/disembarkation so that you could find your things
more efficiently. In addition, you could have touch sensitive
latches, a light touch softly illuminates the interior so you
don't have to open several bins to find your bag mid-flight. |
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That might make it more difficult to help yourself to otger passengers stuff while the cabin lighting is dimmed ... which would mean that low cost airlines might have to start actually paying their cabin staff, driving up ticket prices ... |
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Why not put the overhead lockers on the floor (thereby
making them underhead lockers)? Seats would then go on top
of them. |
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I want to see an airline try "capsule hotel" style
"seating" for greater passenger density, meaning
passengers must clamber into tubes stacked
sardine-like, 3 high and closer together than normal
airline seats. For safety, tubes would be
perpendicular to the direction of travel. |
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Looks like air freight for a large pet is slightly
cheaper than an extra seat, usually, so this is already
semi baked. |
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For best results, capsules could be loaded and
unloaded from outside the aircraft. In case of
emergency, all capsules could be ejected in the
manner of a dandelion ejecting seeds. |
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Those capsules are huge compared to airline seats.
I've seen photos and videos of people sitting upright
in them, say 3'3", lying down sideways with bent
knees, say 4', and the length is easy 6'6". It's better
than business class, essentially identical to some
1st class, so you're not going to increase density. |
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[Ian] I can't see any wrong doing so am up for more punctuation correction, especially on these hallowed pages. |
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It seems to try and cover all the rules of comma use ; for parentheses, for list separation, for small interjection and for added introductory elements. |
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Although, that list isn't that flowing with the added elements. Parentheses might have been better. And maybe //class, essentially// , could be a ;. |
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Punctuation - snot what it used to be. |
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// passengers must clamber into tubes // |
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Why obscure the grim reality ? Put them in pine boxes with six brass handles on the sides, and screw the lids down. |
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// I want to see an airline try "capsule hotel" style "seating" for
greater passenger density, meaning passengers must clamber into
tubes stacked sardine-like, 3 high and closer together than normal
airline seats. For safety, tubes would be perpendicular to the direction
of travel. // |
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Where went the anno saying this was in The Fifth Element? |
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// I can't see any wrong doing so am up for more punctuation
correction // |
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I think that was actually a disguised complaint about the usage of
American units, not an actual mispunctuation complaint. |
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grrrrrrr..... Stop adding gibberish annotations
about punctuation to my idea. |
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