{"id":2969,"date":"2005-07-01T11:36:29","date_gmt":"2005-07-01T15:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/vardibidian\/2005\/07\/01\/2969.html"},"modified":"2018-03-12T16:50:08","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T21:50:08","slug":"design-for-flying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2005\/07\/01\/design-for-flying\/","title":{"rendered":"Design for Flying"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Your Humble Blogger went from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collisiondetection.net\/\">Collision Detection<\/a> over to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idsa.org\/idea\/idea2005\/\">Industrial Design Excellence Awards<\/a>, which have pictures of a variety of Very Cool Stuff, from extremely Danish barbecue grills to the iPod shuffle. The thing that caught my eye, though was Evelyne Chaubert&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idsa.org\/idea\/idea2005\/b1066.htm\">Family Class aircraft travel category<\/a>. By instituting Family Class travel, &#8220;The old sardine-like experience is eradicated and families are able to travel comfortably, without intruding on the comfort of other passengers.&#8221; Basically, instead of rows of chairs, there are &#8220;transformative seating pods&#8221; which are described as, er, pod-like. They are groups of four chairs more or less in a semi-circle. This allows family groups to sit together, more easily entertain the children, and also allows toddlers to walk in loops rather than just up and down a narrow aisle.\n<p>My first thought was something on the lines of &#8220;Man, I&#8217;d <i>love<\/i> that. It would be great for trips with my Perfect Non-Reader.&#8221; And my second thought was that it would be even better for trips without my Perfect Non-Reader. I mean, seriously, who wouldn&#8217;t prefer that kind of seating? Even if the other three people in the pod-like pod were total strangers, and we all just read or laptopped for three hours, wouldn&#8217;t it be more pleasant with all that room?\n<P>So, why don&#8217;t airplanes just make the whole cabin like that? Or at least half the cabin? Oh, right, it takes up three times as much space as the old-fashioned narrow row of seats pattern. Which means that tickets would, presumably, cost three times as much. And maybe there just isn&#8217;t a market for that. I mean, if you are spending that much money on an airplane, you can probably either make do with first class or kick it up for a charter, right? So although this is a nice idea, is there something more to it that makes it award-worthy, or is it just that the panel had just all got off a plane?\n<p><i>chazak, chazak, v&#8217;nitchazek,<\/i><br>-Vardibidian.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your Humble Blogger went from Collision Detection over to the Industrial Design Excellence Awards, which have pictures of a variety of Very Cool Stuff, from extremely Danish barbecue grills to the iPod shuffle. The thing that caught my eye, though&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17465,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2969\/revisions\/17465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}