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Engineering Ukrainian Tatareno’s Detachable Cabin: Why Certification Grounded the Concept and Whether Passengers Could Fund Its Takeoff

Introduction In 2016, Ukrainian engineer Vladimir Tatarenko captured global attention with a radical proposition: a commercial aircraft whose entire passenger cabin could detach in mid-flight, descending safely to the ground under parachutes. Moreover, the idea was elegantly simple in theory. However, it was catastrophically expensive...