Posted on 09/18/2010 4:36:04 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies
This is your captain speaking, your plane is about to become invisible!
Aircraft manufacturer Airbus has theorized a see-through passenger plane for the future, one with a completely transparent fuselage. In this concept craft, the push of a button by the captain would a send an electrical pulse through a high-tech ceramic skin -- making the main body of the plane see-through.
The extraordinary design would allow travelers to look down on cities and landscapes thousands of feet below or gaze up at the heavens, giving them the sensation of floating unassisted through the sky.
"Passengers in an airplane like this would experience flight in a completely new way," Airbus' head of research and technology, Axel Krein, the German news magazine Der Spiegel. Though the proposal might seem far-fetched, it is one of a number of plans being considered by engineers at the European aerospace giant.
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lol ping
Careful what you wish for! :)
Not before hand.
I would have actually watched “Wonder Woman” if Linda Carter had worn an invisible suit.
The things people think of when they have to much Jim Beam.
(Which I suppose is better than the only movie reference I can think of for Unix. The park control system in Jurassic Park ran Unix, and the unit on the film looked like an AT&T 3B1.)
There was more to it than that. Aerodynamically speaking, the Concorde had a highly threatening wake, much, much more so than the B757 as reflected by the "757 Heavy, Wake Turbulence" that you'll hear when listening to ATC radio traffic.
Let a model of aircraft lose the confidence of passengers, along with having a large required separation on take off and landing (which reduces the maximum amount of airport throughput) and that model will die. Much like McDonnell Douglas did some years ago with their commercial aircraft.
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