This beautiful new plane has a feature we've never seen before
Embraer's Kyoto Airship interior concept features large vertical windows and skylights
This is the first time skylights are being used on a large jet with a pressurized cabin that cruises at 35,000 feet. PHOTO: Embraer
For most of us flying means hours of leg-numbing, arduous travel confined to an airplane seat. But now, Brazilian company Embraer has come up with a revolutionary interior with strong sci-fi ambiances.
Embraer has proposed to outfit its Lineage 1000 business jets with large vertical windows and skylights. The interior-design concept is being called the Kyoto Airship.
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Although skylights aren't new to private aviation, this is the first time they are being used on a large jet with a pressurized cabin that cruises at 35,000 feet.
The Embraer executive-jet team drew on the technical specs of an ERJ-145 regional jet for this new concept, which has large observer windows the company designed for use by the Brazilian government, Embraer's vice president of interior design, Jay Beever, told Business Insider.
The Kyoto Airship interior features lower windowsills, designed imagining a hypothetical Japanese customer who may prefer to sit on the floor of the aircraft, hence allowing customers to do so without feeling like they are sitting in a tub.
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The production version of the interior will have to address the fact that large windows will let in a lot of sunlight and could could make the cabin very hot.
The company is awaiting their first customer who's in the mood for something we've never seen before in a business jet.
"We've proven to ourselves that we can make this," Beever said. "And when a Lineage customer is ready to order this airplane, we will make it."
This article originally appeared on Business Insider.
Embraer has proposed to outfit its Lineage 1000 business jets with large vertical windows and skylights. The interior-design concept is being called the Kyoto Airship.
World's largest aircraft takes rare flight
Although skylights aren't new to private aviation, this is the first time they are being used on a large jet with a pressurized cabin that cruises at 35,000 feet.
The Embraer executive-jet team drew on the technical specs of an ERJ-145 regional jet for this new concept, which has large observer windows the company designed for use by the Brazilian government, Embraer's vice president of interior design, Jay Beever, told Business Insider.
The Kyoto Airship interior features lower windowsills, designed imagining a hypothetical Japanese customer who may prefer to sit on the floor of the aircraft, hence allowing customers to do so without feeling like they are sitting in a tub.
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The production version of the interior will have to address the fact that large windows will let in a lot of sunlight and could could make the cabin very hot.
The company is awaiting their first customer who's in the mood for something we've never seen before in a business jet.
"We've proven to ourselves that we can make this," Beever said. "And when a Lineage customer is ready to order this airplane, we will make it."
This article originally appeared on Business Insider.