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Company Developing Supersonic Jet with No Windows

posted by mattie_p on Saturday February 22 2014, @05:04AM   
from the so-it-runs-linux? dept.

girlwhowaspluggedout writes:

"Spike Aerospace has revealed how the Spike S-512, which is planned to be the first supersonic business jet, will be able to fly from New York to London in half the time that the flight requires now. The plane, which is expected to carry 12-18 passengers, will enjoy the reduced drag and lower weight that come with an advanced engine and no windows:" Read more below.

The new supersonic jet will feature a revolutionary windowless passenger cabin so no more glaring sun and no more shades to pull down or push up. Instead, the interior walls will be covered with a thin display screens embedded into the wall. Cameras surrounding the entire aircraft will construct breathtaking panoramic views displayed on the cabin screens. Passengers will be able to dim the screens to catch some sleep or change it to one of the many scenic images stored in the system.

Without windows, the S-512 is expected to reach speeds between Mach 1.6 and 1.8.

Dr Darren Ansell, an expert in space and aerospace engineering at the University of Central Lancashire, told BBC News what passengers in a plane without windows can expect to experience:

There will be no natural light it will all be simulated so it will be a bit like being in a tube. And how would it work from a safety perspective? If there was an accident how would you know which way the plane was facing, and where you had landed, when the cameras have failed?"

You just know that some imaginative hacker is going to have a field day with this..."

• Windowless *passenger* cabin Windowless *passenger* cabin (Score: 5, Funny) by girlwhowaspluggedout on Saturday February 22 2014, @05:25AM

  by girlwhowaspluggedout (1223) on Saturday February 22 2014, @05:25AM (#4755)

  I guess the BBC's journalist didn't tell the doctor he interviewed that the company plans to remove the windows in the passenger cabin alone. That is, the pilots will still get to keep a window, which mitigates his safety concerns. So hooray for sensationalism, however small.

  The only reason to swap the pilots' windows with screens is, of course, to show movies about gladiators.

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• Re:Windowless *passenger* cabin (Score: 1) by davester666 on Saturday February 22 2014, @03:06PM

  by davester666 (155) on Saturday February 22 2014, @03:06PM (#4917)

  The pilots can still watch movies on the head-up display.

  Anyway, now that there won't be any windows, we can go back to the good ole days where we can have guns in carry-on.

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