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> AIRCRAFT INCLUDING A PASSENGER CABIN EXTENDING AROUND A SPACE DEFINED OUTSIDE THE CABIN AND INSIDE THE AIRCRAFT

So then they're not deck chairs on top of the plane? I'm not much up on plane design, but where exactly is "outside the cabin, but inside the aircraft" ?



Read the friendly headline: it's a doughnut-shaped plane, meaning there's a hole ("outside the cabin") in the middle ("inside the aircraft").


I get it, it's just worded in a really strange way.


On closer inspection, it looks like it's not an actual hole, but merely unpressurized space: in the fuselage, but not in the (pressurized) cabin.


A brief scan suggests they are engulfing an unpressurized section of airplane volume since unpressurized sections don't weigh as much.


The passenger cabin extends around a space. That space is located outside of the passenger cabin, but inside the aircraft.




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