The idea is to get rid of ALL THE WINDOWS on the plane. Digest that for a second. At first thought it doesn't sound too appealing - sitting in a tin can miles above the ground with no view out and no fluffy clouds bouncing by.
But instead of windows, boffins are working on replacing them with something even better - responsive screens that can show whatever you want - from the clouds outside the plane to interactive websites.
It's starting to sound more appealing, but the idea doesn't actually come from making flying more fun, it's (of course) a business reason. Slim screens would mean the plane could be much lighter - because the plane body wouldn't need to be reinforced to allow for window panes.
The company behind the designs, The Centre For Process Innovation (the CPI), reckons it could help airlines save huge amounts of money by getting the weight of the planes down - to reduce fuel needs.
“We had been speaking to people in aerospace and we understood that there was this need to take weight out of aircraft,” said Dr Jon Helliwell from the CPI.
“Follow the logical thought through. Let’s take all the windows out – that’s what they do in cargo aircraft – what are the passengers going to do? If you think about it, it’s only really the people that are sitting next to windows that will suffer.”
**shakes head** Hell No!...Nope! No! Not gonna happen!....Its high time we have buses going to countries mehn....I hate flying...and now I gotta enter this in the future?....Nope!...Why do I feel like Jane would love this..?
ReplyDeleteLol Erniesha you get me laughing really hard,you are funny and your blog is not bad i most say. And jane will you fly it?
DeleteLol.... Let it come out first,maybe we. will have options,sealed or unsealed...
ReplyDeleteCheaper or Expensive,there will be Alota factors...