I dunno, that air rushing over your head at 150+ knots would kind of be a PITA after a while. A glass canopy for those seats would not only be way cooler, but much more doable.

@shenanigans61: Glass canopy and a hot tub.

Yeah i was thinkin the same thing 92Buick. A hot tub would top it off.

The difference between this guy and your average kindergartener is that he gets to call this a worthwhile design and make money from it while the KGer just gets it on the fridge.

The normal concepts irk me enough, seeing how many would never be made, but this is just plain stupid. Why would you want to give this guy more publicity?

Wouldn't that affect it's aerodynimics, and make the nose want to point up and do a backflip?

and if you curved it over it would make it more aerodynamic

Open air seats in a plane are certainly possible. Look at every plane for the first 30 or so years of flight. They still make them now, even, if the need calls for it. National Geographic has them custom made for their photographers so they don't have to shoot through windows. The only limit is that they do have to fly fairly slowly in order to avoid sweeping everyone out or just whipping their necks back.

Are those love missiles?

Oh my.

They'd have to fly below 12,000 ft and they'd all have to wear parkas.

Air above is much cooler than the air on the ground. 150+ knots of wind blowing 30-50 degree air = not fun.

Now take that modified 747 and replace the opaque bubble with a clear one, you'd get to see all the blue you could hope for.

That's no open air seat. That's a jaquzzi.

Gizmodo, is your collective IQ in the single digits?

This isn't an airplane concept, it's a concept of something that has the rough shape of an airplane. Like a hot tub maybe. I wouldn't mind that in my yard by the grotto.

But.... it is not a concept of an airplane, rather a stylized representation of one.
It's like calling a picture of a roller skate a concept car.

Ya know up until now, I hadn't considered what a 'love missile' would look like. Apparently all you have to do is put hearts on conventional munitions. Sooo...let me know if my logic isn't right here...if we just painted pretty hearts on all the ammunition we're using in any wars we happen to be in, we could be making love...not war.

Sorry...these types of trains of thought happen when people mention things like 'love missiles'.

The Cupid's Sidewinders are a nice touch, but I'd love to see a waterbed made out of a Camaro.

A hot tub with a glass round glass cover would be pretty sweet. I wouldn't mind flying in one of those.

Maybe a glass canopy and a glass bottom would be better/cooler. Hell, just make the entire damn thing transparent! Actually, better yet, just nab Wonder Woman's invisible jet.

@LastAndLeast: Trains of thought such as that put me on trains of thought such as how exactly Bon Jovi rocks ones face, As of yet I can only ascertain that it involves pelvic thrusting the faces of nearby fans. Which of course then makes one think that Bon Jovi claims to have humped a million faces... Which admittedly I find rather impressive. Oh right... This articles about a plane.. This thing looks like it needs a glass bubble and a pope. Then it can use it's Jesus missles to forcefully spread the word of baby Jesus(The best kind) across the land.

can we please stop getting lame concepts that will never be built, and are completely impossible? or at least not totally stupid, like this one? Please no more concepts!!

@redkamel: You cannot stop the concepts!, No indeed, for without concept what would north American auto makers use to base their failures on?

@92BuickLeSabre: you should listen to this guy, he just received a Commenter Hall of Fame trophy. i know who im following anyway.

Please make this so all those annoying mega stars can ride in it and fall out when they get drunk

@crash1105: If it's paris hilton, you don't even have to get her drunk first.