Commercial aircraft for long distance travel
AssigneeJetZero, Inc.
InventorsBlaine Knight Rawdon, John Charles Vassberg
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Abstract
A commercial aircraft for long distance air travel, the commercial aircraft comprising, a blended wing body aircraft having a main body, a transition and wings with no clear demarcation between the wings and the main body along a leading edge of the commercial aircraft, a passenger cabin, the passenger cabin located within the main body and having a single aisle passenger capacity, at least a propulsor, the at least a propulsor attached to a portion of the main body and configured to propel the blended wing body aircraft through air, and a fuel storage having a fuel capacity, the fuel capacity configured for long range flight, wherein the commercial aircraft is configured for long-range flight.
Claims20
An aircraft comprising:
- a fuselage comprising a passenger cabin, wherein the passenger cabin comprises:
- a first cabin bay having single-aisle passenger capacity, wherein the first cabin bay comprises:
- a first longitudinal aisle centered along a first sagittal plane of the aircraft;
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- a first plurality of passenger seats arranged on a left side of the first longitudinal aisle;
- a second cabin bay positioned laterally adjacent to the first cabin bay, wherein the second cabin bay has single-aisle passenger capacity and comprises:
- a second longitudinal aisle centered along a second sagittal plane of the aircraft;
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- a second plurality of passenger seats arranged on a right side of the second longitudinal aisle;
- a lateral aisle intersecting the respective longitudinal aisles of the first and second cabin bays, wherein the lateral aisle extends between a left exit door on a left side of the fuselage and a right exit door on a right side of the fuselage;
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- a longitudinal structural element arranged between the first and second cabin bays and separating the respective plurality of passenger seats of the first cabin bay from the second cabin bay, the respective plurality of passenger seats of the first cabin bay flanked by the respective longitudinal aisle and the longitudinal structural element on the right and left sides, respectively.
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