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In 10 Years, Windowless Planes Will Give Passengers A Panoramic View Of The Sky
boredpanda ^
| 10/28/14
| Dovas
Posted on 10/29/2014 7:31:33 AM PDT by Malone LaVeigh
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The barf bag is going to be replaced by the disposable adult diaper.
To: Malone LaVeigh
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posted on
10/29/2014 7:33:14 AM PDT
by
onedoug
To: onedoug
No diaper? Or no cameras?
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posted on
10/29/2014 7:34:42 AM PDT
by
palmer
(Thank you for your patience.)
To: Malone LaVeigh
I got the same thing from a C-130...
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posted on
10/29/2014 7:34:55 AM PDT
by
gov_bean_ counter
(Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
To: Malone LaVeigh
Just start making planes out of transparent aluminum.
To: Malone LaVeigh
That is all about a stupid idea and making money. We want to see out of our windows you idiots. The next thing you know there will be World of Warcraft on the screen during the flights if the idea takes hold. Some silver spoon fed kid who was happy being given participation ribbons on field and track day thinks he can make a bazillion bucks and join the likes of Zuckerberg or the Twinker gang...
To: Malone LaVeigh
I doubt I will ever fly again anyway, but I don’t see the point of this.
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posted on
10/29/2014 7:37:52 AM PDT
by
DonaldC
(A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
To: Malone LaVeigh
Like the website. I can see boredpanda being very popular.
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posted on
10/29/2014 7:38:46 AM PDT
by
celmak
To: Malone LaVeigh
I think a glass bottom plane would suffice.
To: jsanders2001
The next thing you know there will be World of Warcraft on the screen during the flights if the idea takes hold.
Advertisements. It will be advertisements.
"This scenic view brought to you by Dewshay Airlines, and their advertising partners. Please enjoy the next 10 minutes of panoramic commericals for feminine products and erectile dysfunctional pills before we let you see another 2 minutes of the outside world."
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posted on
10/29/2014 7:40:04 AM PDT
by
caligatrux
(They always said that the living would envy the dead.)
To: Malone LaVeigh
I would never get on a windowless plane. Never. Never. Never.
To: Blue Jays
It is a aircraft design idea certainly worth considering.
A windowless aircraft would boost the structural rigidity of the airplane.
It might simultaneously also make it lighter, faster, more fuel efficient, and stronger.
The kicker? High-resolution cameras might provide a better outward view than current window placement allows.
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posted on
10/29/2014 7:42:41 AM PDT
by
Blue Jays
(Rock Hard, Ride Free)
To: Malone LaVeigh
This will not be nearly as cool as it looks in the artist’s rendering.
Think about it for a second. If each point in the panel displays what is directly perpendicular to that point on the outside of the plane, it would not make spacial sense to an observer in the plane, who would see the normal view in the panel right next to him, but would see a forshortened view of the panels in front of and behind him. So it would not look like he was flying in a glass tube, as shown here.
The alternative is a panoramic view, taken from the center of the fuselage. This would look right when seen from the center of the aircraft, but would be distorted when viewed from any other point. To a person sitting in the tenth row, the view at the end of his row would be a compressed view out the front of the aircraft, which would have no relation to what is actually outside. Having the view not match up with the actual aircraft movements would almost certainly induce nausea.
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posted on
10/29/2014 7:43:18 AM PDT
by
Haiku Guy
(Health Care Haiku: If You Have a Right / To the Labor I Provide / I Must Be Your Slave)
To: jsanders2001
I would love to have a camera mounted in the nose that displayed on the entertainment system mounted on the seat-back in front of me. That would be cool, and would make me much more comfortable on the flight.
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posted on
10/29/2014 7:45:03 AM PDT
by
Haiku Guy
(Health Care Haiku: If You Have a Right / To the Labor I Provide / I Must Be Your Slave)
To: Malone LaVeigh
If SST’s become viable again, then we will see a windowless plane, if only for weight-saving and better thermal stability of airplane structure reasons.
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posted on
10/29/2014 7:45:11 AM PDT
by
RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's economic cure)
To: Malone LaVeigh
Well, as long as the pilots get to keep the cockpit windows.
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posted on
10/29/2014 7:45:11 AM PDT
by
moovova
To: Haiku Guy
I would love to have a camera mounted in the nose that displayed on the entertainment system mounted on the seat-back in front of me. That would be cool, and would make me much more comfortable on the flight. Equipped with eyeball-tracking technology like the Amazon Fire Phone, so as you looked at the image from different directions, it could display the view from a different angle, as if you were actually looking through a window.
OK. I would pay extra for that.
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posted on
10/29/2014 7:46:45 AM PDT
by
Haiku Guy
(Health Care Haiku: If You Have a Right / To the Labor I Provide / I Must Be Your Slave)
To: Malone LaVeigh
I am sure people would prefer investment in more leg room that this.
To: Malone LaVeigh
An early prototype ...
To: Right Brother
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posted on
10/29/2014 7:49:58 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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