An article in today's wiki about "preighter" airplanes, specifically passenger planes used to haul freight during the pandemic, got me thinking.
Converting a passenger airliner to freight can be a very makeshift procedure, sometimes no more than securing crates and containers on and among the seats (and in those misbegotten overhead bins; well, it's an emergency after all). A better approach is to remove the seats, of course, but loading, unloading, and ground handling are still laborious.
Would it pay to build hermaphrodite airplanes, i.e., airliners with fuselages that can be converted to freight or passenger hauling AND HANDLING quickly? What changes to the entire airframe might this entail?
Does anybody here have any insights?
Converting a passenger airliner to freight can be a very makeshift procedure, sometimes no more than securing crates and containers on and among the seats (and in those misbegotten overhead bins; well, it's an emergency after all). A better approach is to remove the seats, of course, but loading, unloading, and ground handling are still laborious.
Would it pay to build hermaphrodite airplanes, i.e., airliners with fuselages that can be converted to freight or passenger hauling AND HANDLING quickly? What changes to the entire airframe might this entail?
Does anybody here have any insights?
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