TangoWhiskey
Touchdown! Greaser!
http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/aircraft-pictures/2011/06/airbus-unveils-future-cabin-co.html
That'd be quite a view!
That'd be quite a view!
lol yea right.
Main issue I see is weight, outside of that, completely doable.
It'd be a hell of a view picking your way through major thunderstorms. But yeah, it'd just scare the hell out of everyone.no airline would ever buy it. half the passengers would be throwing up. many passengers who just want to sleep would hate it. the airlines don't want to remind you that you're flying through the air. if anything they want you to sit in the dark until you magically arrive at your destination.
no airline would ever buy it. half the passengers would be throwing up. many passengers who just want to sleep would hate it. the airlines don't want to remind you that you're flying through the air. if anything they want you to sit in the dark until you magically arrive at your destination.
no airline would ever buy it. half the passengers would be throwing up. many passengers who just want to sleep would hate it. the airlines don't want to remind you that you're flying through the air. if anything they want you to sit in the dark until you magically arrive at your destination.
You're assuming the materials we have now.Main issue I see is weight, outside of that, completely doable.
We are just getting to the point where we have the electronics and materials to change the opacity or color of the glass. As for the weight...you are assuming materials we have now which may or may not be those of 2050.Turn the glass black... but yeah, I don't see it happening mostly because of weight issues.
I don't think the passenger sections were pressurized, a lot less stress if this were true.What is old is new again. The Zeppelin's had large observation windows. The Graf Zeppelin had to make its way through some bad weather, day and night flying, in its many travels (book recommendation: "Dr. Eckener's Dream Machine" by Douglas Botting; great account of its 1928 round-the-world travel.)
Airbus hinted that there would be space for all kinds of amenities on the A380. Most airlines just used the space for more passengers. This will only fly if the airlines make money because of it.
You're assuming the materials we have now.
Emirates is the only one I know about with the showers and lounges.Are you sure about that? I talked to someone recently who just flew on a 380, and he said that there were a lot of amenities, certainly more than I would have expected. Of course, his airline could have just been the anomoly.
Yep- you work in R&D or you know what the various chemical companies are working onYep... Or what I can conceive of being developed in the next 38 years. We haven't really improved that greatly in these materials in the last 38 years to suspect that they will have a light enough transparent material that will withstand both the environmental and pressurization abuse of this application, at least not while still requiring the rest of the construction they're showing.
Emirates is the only one I know about with the showers and lounges.
Yep... Or what I can conceive of being developed in the next 38 years. We haven't really improved that greatly in these materials in the last 38 years to suspect that they will have a light enough transparent material that will withstand both the environmental and pressurization abuse of this application, at least not while still requiring the rest of the construction they're showing.