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Alessandro From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Posted (7 years 8 months 1 week 7 hours ago) and read 973 times:

I wonder if this could be used on airplanes? http://www.vacuumelevators.com/English%20First%20Page.htm

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Vasu From United Kingdom, joined Apr 2005, 3761 posts, RR: 0
Reply 1, posted (7 years 8 months 1 week 3 hours ago) and read 877 times:

Interesting... you mean instead of airstairs?

BandA From United States of America, joined Aug 2004, 336 posts, RR: 0
Reply 2, posted (7 years 8 months 1 week 3 hours ago) and read 870 times:

Quoting Vasu (Reply 1):
Interesting... you mean instead of airstairs?

umm... i really hope not, can you imagine the pax load/offload times?????

lol

"They [Terrorists] never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." - GWB

Tmatt95 From United Kingdom, joined Sep 2005, 489 posts, RR: 0
Reply 3, posted (7 years 8 months 1 week 3 hours ago) and read 840 times:

The lift looks amazing. Slightly small (funny to see more than one person in it at one time Big grin

) It would be interesting to see it built into the plane but I imagine that may add more weight to it.

P.S I would love to enter a plane through a lift like that ( very futuristic Cool

)

OPNLguy From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 4, posted (7 years 8 months 1 week 2 hours ago) and read 811 times:

Quoting Alessandro (Thread starter):
I wonder if this could be used on airplanes?

Personally, I think they'd suck... Wink

Grude1087 From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 48 posts, RR: 0
Reply 5, posted (7 years 8 months 1 week 2 hours ago) and read 786 times:

Quoting Alessandro (Thread starter):
I wonder if this could be used on airplanes?

I think you were referring to them being use ON airplanes to get from one level to another, right? (B744, A346, A380?)

Dl757md From United States of America, joined May 2004, 1555 posts, RR: 18
Reply 6, posted (7 years 8 months 1 week 1 hour ago) and read 743 times:

I could see a lighter/non-transparent version for a service elevator made out of composites that would be light enough. The polycarbonate version shown could be used for a cool passenger lift between passneger levels but at a higher weight than conventional aircraft elevators. The system seems much more simple than the elevators on the L1011 and DC-10. So I think that mtc would be less of an issue. Cool idea though. Wish I could afford one for the house. Maybe a homemade version? Hmmmm.

757 Most beautiful airliner in the sky!

Alessandro From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 7, posted (7 years 8 months 6 days 7 hours ago) and read 642 times:

Grude, yes, I was thinking of the AN-124 and -225 as example. More for use
on cargo-haulers?

AsstChiefMark From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 8, posted (7 years 8 months 6 days 6 hours ago) and read 604 times:

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