Computers in engineering

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May 2005

COSMOSWorks solves closet case

The Department of Transportation in the 1990s gave airlines several years to comply with new rules requiring all 100-passenger or larger aircraft to have storage space for one full-sized wheelchair in the main cabin. The regulation applies to any aircraft ordered and delivered since the early 1990s, or those that have had significant interior modification since then. Northwest Airlines, which has a fleet of 481 planes serving 900 cities on six continents, had to redesign the closets in many of its Airbus aircraft to meet the regulations.
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