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The surface area increases with the square of linear dimensions. So increasing aisle space meaningfully would make planes significantly heavier—unless you’re su
by afthonos 7y ago
The surface area increases with the square of linear dimensions. So increasing aisle space meaningfully would make planes significantly heavier—unless you’re suggesting making seats narrower to compensate.
- ars 7y ago> The surface area increases with the square of linear dimensions That's for a ball. A cylinder does not increase that way. Plus you only need to increase the width, not the height. So the surface areas goes up as twice the linear dimension, which I don't think would be significantly heavier, just a bit incrementally heavier.
- afthonos 7y agoFair enough. I would say another likely issue is that of the highway problem: you make wider aisles—and now people think they can definitely take their stuff.
- saagarjha 7y agoThey are probably suggesting reducing the number of seats.