A330 "Explorer with Verandah & Dance Floor
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A330 "Explorer with Verandah & Dance Floor
A330 Explorer with Verandah & Dance Floor
"A German design company has come up with the ultimate status symbol, a wild concept plane for the one percenters of the world.
Called the Explorer, the remodelled A330 features a nightclub, glass floor, gym, garage, four double bedrooms and a veranda (to be used on the ground only).
A projection system also covers the walls and ceiling of the plane and will play a range of backgrounds - including an underwater world, and outer space.
Lufthansa Technik is behind the concept and Wieland Timm, Head of Sales VIP & Special Mission Aircraft Services, likening the design to a superyacht..."
I really can't see the attraction of sitting on your verandah at the A330 capable airport where you've landed. Maybe that's just me.
"A German design company has come up with the ultimate status symbol, a wild concept plane for the one percenters of the world.
Called the Explorer, the remodelled A330 features a nightclub, glass floor, gym, garage, four double bedrooms and a veranda (to be used on the ground only).
A projection system also covers the walls and ceiling of the plane and will play a range of backgrounds - including an underwater world, and outer space.
Lufthansa Technik is behind the concept and Wieland Timm, Head of Sales VIP & Special Mission Aircraft Services, likening the design to a superyacht..."
I really can't see the attraction of sitting on your verandah at the A330 capable airport where you've landed. Maybe that's just me.
Great idea, but the kind of people who could pay for such aircraft aren't going to want to sit on their veranda at an airfield are they ? For those of us who like looking at aircraft and their movements it could work, but then some rare plane would be on the opposite side of the fuselage and frustrations would arise. LT liken the concept to the rise in expedition super yachts, but that being the case where would all the gear go what with the veranda and dancefloor and sleeping/living quarters ? Nice idea, but impractical to my mind.
The A330 can take some of your car collection to your vacation spots. Now that would make use of a VVIP-widebody with cargo door. Some apron balcony? Not.
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Isn't that a balcony rather than a veranda? I always understood verandas to be at ground level...
Said it before, I'd love to convert a classic 747 - preferably with an SCD - into a house...
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A bloke just flew from GUA-MIA in the wheel well of a 737 and survived! So I think sitting on an A330 balcony at at FL320 sipping a gin sling will be totally feasible!
Wasn't there a Russian Bi-Plane with a promenade deck on the roof that could be used in flight?
Just found this image.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_Ilya_Muromets
Just found this image.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_Ilya_Muromets
Well for balcony use how about the deep freeze experience of Antarctica as recently reported and there are more than a few island locations where you get a pretty nice view tropical seas , mountains etc from the airport , while somewhere like EWR would not offer quite the same attraction
But the realistic point is that assuming this isnt an April 1 style joke in Germany then the fact that there are people who could afford this ought to be paying a wee bit more tax than they currently dont
But the realistic point is that assuming this isnt an April 1 style joke in Germany then the fact that there are people who could afford this ought to be paying a wee bit more tax than they currently dont