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Where are you seeing information about the seating in this design?

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I am inferring it from the shape of the aircraft.

See youtube https://youtu.be/MvekG31FbJM?t=9 for an artists conception of the seating layout.

Crash will send you flying between the seats, it looks like. The seats would need to be oriented differently.

Isn't that what seatbelts are for?

Only partially. Ever tried bending forward with the seatbelt on in the plane? You can easily reach with your upper body to the seat in front.

In case of a crash, the seats will move forward and then spring back, if you have your body in between of the two seats in front of you while they do this, you can easily get crushed.

On planes, belts are to prevent you getting thrown in to the ceiling during turbulence. That's why you're supposed to keep them on at all times.

>On planes, belts are to prevent you getting thrown in to the ceiling during turbulence.

e.g. Billy Mays

Heart disease, possibly incurred from cocaine use, was his cause of death. The luggage hitting his head after the tire blowout was ultimately not the cause, though was initially reported that way.

was that video 100% auto-generated? sounded like a robotic voice.

Youtube is fully of spammy auto-generated videos reading press releases and other nonsense.

Yes I pray for the day when google algorithms detect this crap and deindex those.

Looks like the plane loses a good chunk of its window seats, and another good chunk are just looking at the other half of the plane.

Not that these are deal breakers, but it's generally safe to assume that at least economy passenger experiences are going to get worse, not better.

I don't think there is a spec, but looking at an image of a b-2 versus the image in the article should give you an idea to start with.

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