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"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..."
(Score: 1) by Khyber on Saturday February 22 2014, @12:49PM
Concorde, anyone?
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(Score: 1) by Popsikle on Saturday February 22 2014, @01:45PM
Concorde is not in the same class. BJ's are (well fun...) 8-16 pax normally.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Khyber on Sunday February 23 2014, @08:10AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersonic_business_j et [wikipedia.org]
Concorde is listed as one.
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(Score: 1) by Foobar Bazbot on Sunday February 23 2014, @12:42PM
No. Allow me to quote the paragraph:
That's not listing the Concorde and Tu-144 as SSBJs, that's listing them as "larger commercial SSTs" and contrasting that class of SSTs with SSBJs. Reading comprehension FTW.
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Foobar Bazbot on Saturday February 22 2014, @02:05PM
"Business Jet" refers to aircraft designed or adapted for a certain role [wikipedia.org], and sometimes to airframes designed for that role, even if adapted for other roles. Thus, some jetliners have been converted to business jets (Airforce One being perhaps the most prominent and ostentatious example), but most are not. In particular, I'm pretty sure no Concordes have ever been converted to business jets, so this probably would be the first SSBJ.
If there is an earlier SSBJ example, it's probably a converted military aircraft -- there are quite a number of obsolete fighters in private hands these days, and any two-seat model (e.g. trainer or ground-attack variants) is at least theoretical capable of having the second seat overhauled to business-jet standards. But I've not heard of such a conversion.
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(Score: 1) by Khyber on Sunday February 23 2014, @08:24AM
As I posted in a reply above, the Concorde is listed as a supersonic business jet in several articles about SSBJs (plus Wikipedia.)
So is the Tupolev Tu-144. And that was in operation back in the 60s.
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