Future Airplanes -- 2025 -- would you fly on a plane with no windows?

[MikeF]

NASA has plans for the future:
http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-cetera...-20110118/

For the third design, would you fly on a plane with no windows?

[cbelt3]

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.

[haikuman]

dude ~!~ I don't use Windoz now ...

[Mac1337]

What is NASA doing in commercial aviation? Looks like they are really out of ideas.

[RAMd®d]

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.

[Jimmypoo]

Depends --- will there be private rooms?

[the_poochies]

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.

[OWC Jamie]

Jimmypoo wrote:
Depends --- will there be private rooms?

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.

[Jimmypoo]

aaah. Egg Crate seating!


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[rgG]

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.