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Re: Europa-List: Seat Foundations

Subject: Re: Europa-List: Seat Foundations
From: Graham Singleton <grahamsingleton@btinternet.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:03:13

A thin bean bag is the most comfortable. It also crushes and absorbs 
impact energy in a heavy landing and adjusts to any shape of butt to 
give even pressure all over, the key to comfort.
imho of course. In my case comfort is more important than appearance ;-)
Graham

Peter Timm wrote:
> Troy,  I made myself seat-bottoms of blue foam, but soon found out , 
> that only several layers of seat-cushions made sense.
> It is the only way to adjust the seats for different sized occupants. 
> Mine is a classic mono, and I had a friend, who is 6'2" and admits to 
> 235 lb, up for a 55 min. flight. He was not very comfortable sitting 
> on a hard bottom with no back-cushion, but it was
> his idea. My upholstery has 1/4 " foam under the fabric 
> everywhere.Three cushions of different thickness give lots of options.
> One layer is 1" temper-foam. The rest should also not be too soft.Even 
> for the back, two 1" cushions are better than one 2" one.
>  
> Peter Timm, # 110
>  



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