Passenger compartment
View Patent ↗A passenger module that may be connected to an aircraft for transport, and may be detached and attach different module for carriage to a different destination. In alternative embodiments involving different aircrafts such as fixed wing and helicopter aircraft, a module may be adapted to have a transparent exterior so that passengers may have a broad range of unobstructed view of the outside surroundings. The module may have a range of free movements while still connected to the aircraft for such purposes as sightseeing.
1. A detachable passenger module for an aircraft comprising:
a seating area wherein seats are placed within the said seating area; exterior walls, a floor, and a ceiling wherein the exterior walls and the ceiling fully encloses the entire seating area separate from a fuselage of the aircraft;
at least a portion of the exterior walls and the ceiling are continuously transparent, and the continuously transparent portion of the exterior walls and the ceiling allowing a substantially unobstructed view of the outside surroundings from within the passenger module;
at least one interlocking rail wherein the interlocking rail extends from the passenger module and the at least one interlocking rail is detachably fastened to the aircraft, wherein a vertical length of the at least one interlocking rail is not longer than a height of the detachable passenger module and the vertical length of the at least one interlocking rail is fixed;
a rotating mechanism, which actuates rotation of the entire passenger module while fastened to the aircraft, the rotating mechanism separate from flight controls which controls a flight of the aircraft;
a tilting mechanism which actuates a tilting of the entire passenger module away from the aircraft which the passenger module is fastened to the aircraft;
a set of wheels connected to the passenger module used as landing gear of the passenger module; and
crash bars affixed to a front of the passenger module.
2. The detachable passenger module of claim 1 , wherein the exterior walls and the ceiling comprises photochromic materials.
3. The detachable passenger module of claim 1 , wherein the crash bars extend and unfold into a stable configuration in front of the passenger module from a compact configuration from a housing of the crash bars connected to the passenger module.
4. An aircraft comprising:
a fuselage;
flight controls which control a flight of the aircraft;
a passenger module wherein said passenger module is detachable from the fuselage of the aircraft;
at least one interlocking rail wherein said interlocking rail is detachably connecting the passenger module to the fuselage, wherein a vertical length of the at least one interlocking rail is not longer than a height of the passenger module and the vertical length of the at least one interlocking rail is fixed;
the passenger module having a fully enclosed seating area,
a controller that controls the rotation and tilting of the passenger module and not the flight of the aircraft; and
a rotating mechanism that actuates rotation of the entire passenger module around a central axis connected to the aircraft.
5. The aircraft of claim 4 comprising further a tilting mechanism which actuates tilting of the passenger module wherein said passenger module is positioned such that an end is angled away from the fuselage.
6. The aircraft of claim 4 comprising further a lowering mechanism wherein said passenger module is lowered relative to the fixed point on the fuselage and said lowering mechanism is controlled by the controller and not by the flight controls.
7. The aircraft of claim 4 , wherein the passenger module comprises transparent exterior walls and a transparent ceiling.
8. The passenger module of claim 4 comprising a galley.
9. The aircraft of claim 4 comprising a set of landing gear on the aircraft and a set of landing gear on the passenger module.
10. The aircraft of claim 4 having a module with wheels which is used as landing gear for the aircraft.
11. The aircraft of claim 10 , wherein the wheels are supplemental to a set of landing gear on the aircraft.
12. The aircraft of claim 4 , wherein the passenger module comprises extendable crash bars that extend and unfold to a front portion of the passenger module.