Jalopnik: Opulent Air Travel Is Reaching a New Level of Lunacy with Seats On Top of the Plane
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Instead of offering reliable on-time service, zero baggage fees, and decent meals, airlines seem willing to try anything else to fill seats.
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Acrylic bubbles and tubes are used for submarines, it all comes down to the thickness of the material. I didn't take the Youtube links to a video enabled browser, but Jalopnik shows an installation that has a cylinder the seats retract into. It has Star Trek-y double doors that are probably there to prevent implosive decompression. A tiny O-ring seal is all it would take.
The doors should dark electrochromically to prevent upskirt gawkers. ...or so I hear.
Seriously, though, this is the Aerodynamics forum. Will the increased price on two tickets pay for the added fuel costs? Is the apparent 1.5:1 fineness ratio adequate? Is the filleting according to Hucho?