Embraer 1000 to offer vertical windows, skylights

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http://www.businessinsider.com/embraer-lineage-kyoto-airship-window-2016-5

...For this new concept, the Embraer executive-jet team drew on the technical specs of an ERJ145 regional jet, which has large observer windows the company designed for use by the Brazilian government, Embraer's vice president of interior design, Jay Beever, told Business Insider.

According to Beever, the Embraer design team imagined a hypothetical Japanese customer who may want to sit on the floor of the aircraft instead of a traditional seat. The Kyoto Airship interior features lower windowsills that allow the customer to do so without feeling like they are sitting in a tub.

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Seems like a pretty cool concept idea, but I can't help but wonder how much that is going to add to the price of manufacture and how much it's going to take away from structural durability.
 
poser765 said:
Seems like a pretty cool concept idea, but I can't help but wonder how much that is going to add to the price of manufacture and how much it's going to take away from structural durability.
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If you can cut a huge door in the side of a passenger plane to make it a cargo bird, complete with gaps wide enough that you can pee out them, why won't this work?
 
Adler said:
If you can cut a huge door in the side of a passenger plane to make it a cargo bird, complete with gaps wide enough that you can pee out them, why won't this work?
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Hmm, good question. I sort of figure a large, bulky cargo door that is made out of the same material as the fuesalage has a lot more structural stability than windows. I could, obviously, be very wrong...I'm nothing close to an engineer.
 
https://www.wired.com/2016/05/private-jets-get-door-sized-windows-always-needed/
Beefy McGee said:
Hope they put good A/C in that thing. It's going to get hot if those windows don't have shades.
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Looks like they will be using electrochromic tinting
poser765 said:
Seems like a pretty cool concept idea, but I can't help but wonder how much that is going to add to the price of manufacture and how much it's going to take away from structural durability.
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"When it comes to structure, just put the window forward of the wing. 'There’s a lot of stress and load on the wing during flight that extends through the fuselage and all the way back to the tail,'"

Embraer might elect to 3D-print titanium installation hardware to keep the window’s weight down and to facilitate its integration into the airframe

Seems like this is still firmly on the drawing board. Will be interesting if they follow through with it, I'd like to see how it will be structured
 
I like it, although I am wondering how much useful load would be lost. The windows themselves are probably heavier than the standard structure plus whatever reinforcements would have to be added to maintain a 7000' cabin at 41000'. But they have put showers in Gulfstreams so I suppose it's just a case of how much of a compromise an owner is willing to make.
 
knot4u said:
I like it, although I am wondering how much useful load would be lost. The windows themselves are probably heavier than the standard structure plus whatever reinforcements would have to be added to maintain a 7000' cabin at 41000'. But they have put showers in Gulfstreams so I suppose it's just a case of how much of a compromise an owner is willing to make.
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Is useful load usually a problem for big corporate jets?
 
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