Nike Helps Design a Swag New Plane for Traveling Sports Teams

     In our everyday lives we see jets that are designed to cram as many people in as possible, but when sports team travels there is usually only 20-40 players where as a normal plane usually holds between 100-400 passengers. So Nike designed a plane that looks amazing and has functionality to fit smaller amounts of people to provide more comfort and luxury.

     As you can see this plane is designed with style and space in mind. "Most airplane design projects are about packaging individuals as efficiently as possible," says Phillip Steiner the creative direction. "We're usually really concerned with the average traveler, but these athletes are far beyond average, and designing for extreme sports users provides a really interesting perspective." This plane even has dedicated seating areas for different actions: socialization, sleep and recovery/nutrition. Almost as if they simply have no wants while flying to their next away game. The rows are even separated enough to fit a 7 foot passenger fully reclined.
   
     Now of course this plane has cool lighting effects and is designed for professional athletes which means its loaded with new technology like wearable sensors in the seating keeping track on the player's physiology and then send it to an on-board computer. With intelligent lighting the team trainers can set the cabin atmosphere to relax or pump up the team . "It's a little bit shocking that the meal service hasn't changed very much to give passenger's more control," says Industrial designer Annaliese Chapa and went on to say "Self-serve meal zones allow for customized meal plans." this means that not only the plane itself is being re-designed here but the services that come with it as well.

 Innovations like this may help many sports teams perform better on the road with better rest, less stress and fewer needs when traveling everyone is going to feel as rested as if they just slept the whole night through on this jet. The design is attractive and fits the players multi-million dollar pay scales with styles that would make anyone want to hang out there almost like a flying night club/hotel in the sky with all the fixings.
     Although this may not be the most necessary plane as it won't be used on a public level I'm sure that athletes will be loving the new updates to this plane specifically designed with them in mind.

Sources: Wired