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Fantasy Open-Air Seats Airplane Will Never Fly, Unfortunately

For some reason, Spanish designer Jaime Hayon decided to put the weirdest elements he could find in this airplane concept, made of white gold and fiberglass tiles for a ceramics company called Bisazza: the nose looks like a F-18 Hornet, then it has an Y-Wing cockpit, wings with propeller wings and love missiles, a B-52ish tail, and—the best part—open-air seats. More »

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Embraer and BMW Team Up for Luxo-Jets

You might know Embraer as the company that makes those pint-sized regional jets that you wedge yourself into to get from here to there. But imagine one of those jets as a private plane as you see in the picture above, and with a BMW interior. Brazilian company Embraer has teamed up with BMW's Los Angeles studio, DesignworksUSA, for some super-swank interiors for the company's medium-range jets. The Phenom 300 pictured here should be one of the first to get the BMW interior, expected to take to the skies in 2009. The $6.65 million (probably more with this snazzy interior) jet flies at 41,000 feet and has a range of 2,078 miles. Hit the gallery to take an inside tour. [Wired]