There's an airy, spacious, futuristic seat coming to business class, with all-new scientifically engineered structures and materials borrowed from Formula 1 cars.
"The benefit to the passenger would be enormous in terms of leg room, and the ability to store a full sized cabin bag in the seat right in front of them," Koehler says."That would mean the reduction or removal of overhead bins, further reducing the weight of this airplane. And of course, less bins means a much more open cabin.
JPA is working with Williams Advanced Engineering and SWS to create Airtek, and the companies are targeting a minimum of 10% and as much as 20% weight reduction through using the monocoque composite structure. While color and some finish selections are usually made by airlines, the team is also leaning into light-and-dark contrasts for styling the seat, which both makes for a bold design language for sighted users and a seat that is responsive to the needs of blind and partially sighted people.
Aviation has its own version of Prussian Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke's epigram"no plan survives contact with the enemy" --"no product survives contact with the passenger". That can also be expanded to"or the cleaners" in the time of coronavirus, as increased cleaning and even UV light sterilization can pose long-term structural durability issues to certain composites.
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