1. Why1000 Gardenia & Why1000 SMC (Strategic Military Carrier).
Why1000 is a development of Why600 Y-fuselage concept (see Why600), where the whole area between the 2 fuselages at the rear half of the aircraft is utilized as the cabin. This produced an aircraft with the size of Why600 (the length and wingspan are the same), but can carry twice the number of passengers. However, Why1000 can carry 1000 passengers or 500 passengers and accommodate a garden, which is why the aircraft is named, Why1000 Gardenia.
Not only that Why1000 can accommodate a garden which is twice the size of the recreational futsal court accommodated by Why600, Why1000 also have extra features that are not available in Why600.
Why1000 is powered by 3 jet engines positioned above the fuselage and center of gravity. There is a very large "skydoor", the type of French door right at the front of the engines. This skydoor enables large objects to be loaded and unloaded from above into the area where the garden is, when the area is utilized as the storage for heavy military vehicles, as in Why1000 SMC (Strategic Military Carrier).
There is a pair of body flaps, which is actually the extension of its tailplane that connects the left and right side of the rear wing. These body flaps provide extra control to the momentum of Why1000. There is a large rear sliding door equipped with a foldable ramp. Why1000 SMC uses this rear door to load and unload large and heavy wheeled payloads including tanks and heavy trucks, while Why1000 Gardenia uses it as the emergency "grand" exit.
2. Top view of of Why1000: Visible are "skydoor", 3 jet engines, body flaps, and rear sliding door.
3. Side view of Why1000.
4. Front view of Why1000.
5. Bottom view of Why1000: Notice the rear sliding door.
Why1000 Gardenia
The garden is designed to accommodate almost 40% of the passengers at one time, therefore equipped with the suitable number of seats for safety of the passengers as the aircraft maybe accidentally flying through turbulence when there are passengers in the garden. The availability of the seats in the garden and the long duration of flight, as Why1000 is to fly on long endurance flights, which is above 12 hours (such as between Western Europe and Far East or Eastern Europe and West Coast USA), all the passengers will have the opportunity to enjoy themselves in the garden for a significant period of time (more than several hours, enough for reading a book in the garden to completion).
The grassy floor of the garden is actually astrotuft (artificial grass surface field), but the small trees and flowers in the garden are real, except that they are safely anchored to the floor beneath the astrotuft. There are also washrooms in the garden.
Why 1000 Gardenia is designed assuming that passengers will be willing to pay twice the standard fee for flying (the 1000-passenger mode) in maximum comfort with an in-flight real size garden. The passengers seating in the garden may have their meals and watch in-flight entertainment videos as those seats are the standard comfortable long endurance seats, and the standard cabin services are made available in the garden too.
6. A possible layout of the garden onboard Why1000.
The garden is designed with a purposeful size of 16 X 25m, which is the minimum size of a competition futsal court, so that the garden can be substituted with such futsal court. The idea is to allow a futsal competition to be held in-flight, as if Why1000 is an airborne futsal stadium accommodating 500 people (players, crews and spectators). In this mode, each seat video monitor is connected to the video cameras recording live the competition. However for safety, the aircraft need to fly at a minimum altitude above 15km during the game to avoid turbulence.
7. The size of the garden is equal to the size of the standard small futsal court. Therefore, the garden can be suitably substituted with a standard futsal court.
My friend, Amzari Abas has voiced out about having an inflight futsal league. For example, the league can be started an hour after the take off and completed an hour before landing of a 14-hour flight. Such league may even be co-hosted by few countries including the 2 countries where the aircraft take off and landing respectively and the countries where the aircraft flies over their airspace.
Why1000 SMC
Why1000 SMC can carry 12 MBTs (main battle tanks) and 500 soldiers or 1000 soldiers in comfortable seating for long endurance flight. The MBTs can be loaded and unloaded into the storage area through the skydoor using a crane or they can be driven into and out of the storage through the rear door as there is a foldable ramp at the door, and the seats between the storage and the door can be removed (the seats can be re-installed after the MBTs are secured in the storage).
8.Why1000 SMC (Strategic Military Carrier) can carry 12 MBTs (main battle tanks) & 500 soldiers or 1000 soldiers in comfortable seating for long endurance flight.
9.12 MBTs can be driven into and out from the storage area of Why1000 SMC via the rear door which is equipped with a foldable ramp.
Capability of carrying 12 MBTs is a tremendous improvement over the capability of current strategic military carrier aircrafts such as Boeing C-17 Globemaster III, which can only carry 1 MBT and 3 AFVs (armored fighting vehicles) or 6 ASVs (armored security vehicles). Why1000 SMC will be very effective for large air forces such as USAF and Russian Air Forces or NATO to deploy 12 MBTs and 500 soldiers or similar size payloads in a single aircraft to a distanced war theater.
10. C-17 Globemaster III military cargo statistics.
The revolutionary concept of Y-fuselage makes possible the design of Why1000 Gardenia that can accommodate a real size garden and Why1000 SMC that can accommodate 12 MBTs, without exceeding the gigantic size of Airbus 380.
DISCLAIMER
1. The illustrations of M1 Abrams main battle tanks in figure 8 & 9 are from public websites.
2. Figure 10 is from a public webite.
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