When the standard airline cabin was designed (the 707 in the early 1950s), flights were about 63% full. Now they're about 84% full. So the cabin you're flying in now has less than half as much empty space as its designers expected.
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This is proof that very intelligent people sometimes say the dumbest of things. When they designed the cabins in the early 1950s the 63% stat was yet to exist. So the idea it had any effect on the design of the cabin is a logical fallacy. What an odd tweet!
They would have been pretty sloppy designers if they didn't know what current load factors were.
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Would be even more sloppy if they designed for current and not potential load factors.
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Looks like they did.
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The worst mechanical engineers know that load factor is important.
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- We need to design an aircraft for 100 people - But wait, what is the average load factor at this point in time? - 63 - Ok, we're going to design it for 63 people This makes no sense
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