Posted on 07/08/2014 9:03:51 AM PDT by DFG
Future airliner flight decks may do away with windows and move out of the nose of the aircraft, according to Airbus.
The European airplane maker filed a patent application Dec. 23, published June 26, for a flight deck that relies mostly or entirely on electronic viewscreens.
The first advantage is aerodynamic, since flight deck windows require interrupting the ideal scalpel shape of the nose, Airbus wrote. Also, big windows and the reinforcement required for them add weight to the aircraft.
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I wonder if they get ESPN on that thing?
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.
it’s just not the same know that i know Sulu’s meat gazing
How will they be able to see UFO’s?
Next it’ll be airplanes don’t need pilots.
Charles Lindbergh crossed the atlantic in an aircraft with no forward visibility and only two small side windows.
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.
Real? Photoshop? Where? When?
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.
No Windows = No fun
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
IIRC, that was a huge RC model (BIG) that someone crashed...
I love it. Gave me the laugh of the day!
In the realm of totally computer controlled flight, the phrase “blue screen of death” takes on new significance.
I wonder how that would have worked out in Barcelona in the last week or so...
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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