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Future Airplanes -- 2025 -- would you fly on a plane with no windows? - MikeF - 01-19-2011
NASA has plans for the future:
http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-cetera/nasa-commisions-three-aircraft-designs-that-could-be-flying-in-2025-20110118/
For the third design, would you fly on a plane with no windows?
Re: Future Airplanes -- 2025 -- would you fly on a plane with no windows? - cbelt3 - 01-19-2011
Windows are always a stress point in planes.. remembering the DeHaviland Comet's disastrous design flaws...
Replacing them with HD screens is always a possibility.
Personally, I LIKE to be able to see outside... some of the most memorable stargazing experiences of my life involved late night transcontinental flights... an observatory at 50,000 feet is awesome. So I would badly miss that.
Re: Future Airplanes -- 2025 -- would you fly on a plane with no windows? - haikuman - 01-19-2011
dude ~!~ I don't use Windoz now ...
Re: Future Airplanes -- 2025 -- would you fly on a plane with no windows? - Mac1337 - 01-19-2011
What is NASA doing in commercial aviation? Looks like they are really out of ideas.
Re: Future Airplanes -- 2025 -- would you fly on a plane with no windows? - RAMd®d - 01-19-2011
Personally, I LIKE to be able to see outside... some of the most memorable stargazing experiences of my life involved late night transcontinental flights... an observatory at 50,000 feet is awesome. So I would badly miss that.
Exactly.
TSA gropes won't really compensate.
Re: Future Airplanes -- 2025 -- would you fly on a plane with no windows? - Jimmypoo - 01-19-2011
Depends --- will there be private rooms?
Re: Future Airplanes -- 2025 -- would you fly on a plane with no windows? - the_poochies - 01-19-2011
As long as the commercial airline seats of the future are built for someone of my frame (6'2" ) and not for anorexic midgets, I couldn't care if the interior of the aircraft was plastered with pictures of Roseanne Barr.
Re: Future Airplanes -- 2025 -- would you fly on a plane with no windows? - OWC Jamie - 01-19-2011
Jimmypoo wrote:more than likely knocked out so that you're just breathing in a space smaller than the tube used to bring up the Chilaen miners.
Depends --- will there be private rooms?
Re: Future Airplanes -- 2025 -- would you fly on a plane with no windows? - Jimmypoo - 01-19-2011
aaah. Egg Crate seating!
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Re: Future Airplanes -- 2025 -- would you fly on a plane with no windows? - rgG - 01-19-2011
That would be called a rocket, not an airplane.
Actually I usually try to get an aisle seat, so I can't see much anyway, but I do like the idea of being able to see out.
Of course, if there is just about any other way to get to my destination, I would take that over flying. Airports have gotten to be such a hassle and the planes so cramped and overbooked, that flying isn't much fun anymore.