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Airbus: Pilots don't really need windows
Seattlepi.com via SFGATE ^
| 07/02/2014
| AUBREY COHEN
Posted on 07/08/2014 9:03:51 AM PDT by DFG
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posted on
07/08/2014 9:03:51 AM PDT
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DFG
To: DFG
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posted on
07/08/2014 9:05:46 AM PDT
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Bratch
To: Bratch
I wonder if they get ESPN on that thing?
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posted on
07/08/2014 9:08:17 AM PDT
by
MeganC
(Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.)
To: DFG
In the future airplanes with have a cockpit with only a man and a dog. The man’s job is to feed the dog and the dog’s job is to bite the man if he tries to touch anything.
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posted on
07/08/2014 9:08:18 AM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
To: Bratch
it’s just not the same know that i know Sulu’s meat gazing
To: DFG
We don't need no windows!
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posted on
07/08/2014 9:08:33 AM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
( Incoming fire always has the right of way.)
To: DFG
How will they be able to see UFO’s?
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posted on
07/08/2014 9:09:02 AM PDT
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PGR88
To: DFG
Next it’ll be airplanes don’t need pilots.
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posted on
07/08/2014 9:09:03 AM PDT
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MUDDOG
To: DFG
Charles Lindbergh crossed the atlantic in an aircraft with no forward visibility and only two small side windows.
To: DFG
I agree. I’d go even further: why have a human flight crew at all? Most of the current flight operations are done by computer. All the human pilots do is stand by for situations that may require an intervention. More often than not, the intervention is the wrong one.
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posted on
07/08/2014 9:10:30 AM PDT
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Chainmail
(A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
To: carriage_hill
Real? Photoshop? Where? When?
To: tanknetter
Lindbergh had forward visibility (barely) by way of a periscope.
OTOH, this is the obvious next step in a glass cockpit. You can give the pilots (theoretically) superior visibility around the aircraft with lots of cameras. It could work wonderfully ... until it doesn’t. With no windows, there’s no backup system.
To: DFG
To: PGR88
How will they be able to see UFOs?As is well known, UFO's communicate telepathically, so windows are not needed by sensitive and open-to-new-experiences pilots. F-104s had windows but that didn't prevent the Luftwaffe from flying four of them in perfect formation into a Bavarian Alp.
yarchive.net/mil/german_f104_losses.html
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posted on
07/08/2014 9:16:23 AM PDT
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Kenny Bunk
(The GOP is dying. What do we do now?)
To: InterceptPoint
IIRC, that was a huge RC model (BIG) that someone crashed...
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posted on
07/08/2014 9:16:47 AM PDT
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rlmorel
("A nation, despicable by it"s weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral." A. Hamilton)
To: Blood of Tyrants
I love it. Gave me the laugh of the day!
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posted on
07/08/2014 9:17:15 AM PDT
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rlmorel
("A nation, despicable by it"s weakness, forfeits even the privilege of being neutral." A. Hamilton)
To: Chainmail
In the realm of totally computer controlled flight, the phrase “blue screen of death” takes on new significance.
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posted on
07/08/2014 9:17:48 AM PDT
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tbpiper
To: DFG
Early in the design of Concorde, it was thought difficult/impossible to have flight deck windows, given extremes of temperatures, etc. Pilots would have nothing to do with the notion.
When all else fails, you need a human being. Recall the incident in Barcelona just a few days ago...
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posted on
07/08/2014 9:18:21 AM PDT
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Nepeta
To: DFG
I wonder how that would have worked out in Barcelona in the last week or so...
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posted on
07/08/2014 9:19:35 AM PDT
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tje
To: Nepeta
Speaking of the Concorde, wasn’t the cockpit essentially windowless except for when the nose was hinged down for takeoff and landings?
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posted on
07/08/2014 9:20:59 AM PDT
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Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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