France’s Technicon Design came up with a creative new jet concept… no windows. Instead, the design team, “quickly settled on the controversial yet interesting idea of removing the windows from
the cabin and using existing or very near future technology to display the exterior environment on flexible screens, which cover the walls and ceiling of the cabin, via external cameras. The user experience is greatly enhanced by directly engaging the passengers with the environment outside, giving an unhindered panoramic view.”
This would be pretty cool…
This will go great with those “Bicycle Seat” passenger seats that Airbus just recently patented. Leave it to the French to come up with passenger pleasing designs.
To me it’s all upside. Much better’views’, much stronger fuselage – remember it was weakness at the windows that brought down several DH Comets in the early days of jet travel – and, I guess much lighter empty weight. What’s not to love?
Since this a camera situation then they need to have a way to censor the shot just in case they fly over a nudist colony or other morally objectionable material – for example the FAA medical offices in Oklahoma City.
This is anything but new. In the early 1980s it was common to watch the cockpit and other views from the TV monitors in a DC-10. Jimmy Doolittle made the first blind flight in a windowless plane in 1929. Yawn.
Hey man I advise you watch the video, Yawn;)
I would freak out so badly! (scared of heights)
This is a good design. Why you ask. Cause now there are no weak spots in the fuselage. Which now means it can fly little faster and Higher. And the depressurization and the Pressurization of the cabin and cockpit area will endure better and less structure damage over a long term. I can go on put that’s the general idea. Which in the long run it will save money less fuel and maintaining the aircraft much more inefficient. When you can hit Mach 5 let me know. Without heat build up on the outside skin
Did you read Steven King’s “The Dark Tower”?
In one of the stories’ episodes, the travelers find themselves on a hypersonic train where the walls, ceiling and floor disappear, giving the passengers an unlimited view of the countryside passing beneath them. Also, the train was run by a suicidal AI that had gone insane.