The Most Luxurious Airline Seat Would Offer a Private Canopy View

[FLPanhandle]

Sit down inside the plane? That's for the proles. For the ultimate luxury air travel experience, there's the SkyDeck.

Windspeed, an aerospace start-up in Everett, Washington, is developing ways of making air travel more scenic. It has two designs called SkyDeck. One offers an stairwell from the fuselage to an enclosed canopy on the top of the plane. The other is a private elevator that rises all the way up and rotates on command.

Windspeed says that the designs should be completely safe in many planes, from wide-body jetliners to executive transports. The bubble is made with the same material as supersonic fighter jet canopies, so it's safe against air hazards at lower speeds, such as bird strikes.

Would you like to try it?

http://www.neatorama.com/2015/12/11/The-Most-Luxurious-Airline-Seat-Would-Offer-a-Private-Canopy-View/


I doubt we will see this option on Delta anytime soon, but as frequent flyer this would be a heavenly way to travel.

[RandySF]

1. Actually that would freak me out.

BTW my 8-year old told me he's going to own Singapore Sirkines.

[world wide wally]

2. Looks like fun!

But they will probably have to cut back on the excessive leg room in all the other seats.

[brush]

3. Might be kinda hot up there from the sun in that bubble atop the plane.

[hlthe2b]

4. I see that and all I can think of is the importance of....

"staying under the wire" (so-to-speak)...


Ohhh!

[cwydro]

5. Yikes!

I get vertigo just looking at that!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. Looks good to me!

What a great opportunity to take photos!

I'd definitely do this.

[Nye Bevan]

7. I doubt that will ever happen in real life.

People who pay that kind of money for an airline seat are used to being catered to constantly with multi-course meals, wines, and all manner of in-flight amenities. What are they going to do, make the elevator go back down every time they want their wine glass refilled or need an extra serving of caviar?

[Ed Suspicious]

8. dumbwaiter

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=dumbwaiter

[Nye Bevan]

9. It would have to have a very sophisticated stabilization system

so that wine was not spilled out of glasses due to turbulence on the way up or down.

[951-Riverside]

10. Seems like another one of those investment scams...

like all of those flying car scams out there.

Plus all you're going to see is the top of the plane, clouds and SUN. The novelty would quickly wear off.

[Ed Suspicious]

11. I don't know. Stargazing would be pretty awesome from that contraption at 30,000 ft.

[Nye Bevan]

12. If anything it would be something that all premium passengers could book a 10-minute turn in.

But there's no way that the enormous cost of such a device could ever be recouped by higher ticket prices.