New windowless prototype aircraft, the Otto Aviation Phantom 3500, eliminates windows to increase performance and efficiency. Passengers will still be able to 'see' outside though with the aid of streamed real-time images from outside projected onto the walls and ceiling of the aircraft.
Windoless Jet - Phantom 3500
Otto Aviation website
Kind of interesting. Would you fly on one?
And in other (more sarcastic) news, there's this...
Rumor has it that airlines are really stoked about this new technology. United has ordered (50) of the new aircraft. In a cost savings measure they have requested all of the outside cameras be removed, and they will instead display looping images from the inside of Joliet State Prison. Spirit and American have also placed orders. These two airlines have initiated cost savings measure by requesting that the pilot windows also be removed along with most of the instruments. And Southwest has placed conditional orders for some aircraft, contingent on the manufacturer being able to deliver (100) standing room only configurations with (500) passenger capacity...by next week (that last part is a joke for anyone who works with SWA on a regular basis like I do). All four airlines have requested the capability to just airdrop passengers at their destination by shoving them out, without parachutes, onto the tarmac during low flybys. The manufacturer is said to also be working on airline requests for a new automated loading system for their airplanes with a slingshot mechanism and a ramrod (similar to that of a garbage compactor) to load paying passengers. Galleys have been eliminated on the new aircraft to make room for shackle and chain storage. Passenger baggage and carry-on luggage has been eliminated...entirely (plenty of room to cram a few hundred people in down there also).
That is all.
Windoless Jet - Phantom 3500
Otto Aviation website
Kind of interesting. Would you fly on one?
And in other (more sarcastic) news, there's this...
Rumor has it that airlines are really stoked about this new technology. United has ordered (50) of the new aircraft. In a cost savings measure they have requested all of the outside cameras be removed, and they will instead display looping images from the inside of Joliet State Prison. Spirit and American have also placed orders. These two airlines have initiated cost savings measure by requesting that the pilot windows also be removed along with most of the instruments. And Southwest has placed conditional orders for some aircraft, contingent on the manufacturer being able to deliver (100) standing room only configurations with (500) passenger capacity...by next week (that last part is a joke for anyone who works with SWA on a regular basis like I do). All four airlines have requested the capability to just airdrop passengers at their destination by shoving them out, without parachutes, onto the tarmac during low flybys. The manufacturer is said to also be working on airline requests for a new automated loading system for their airplanes with a slingshot mechanism and a ramrod (similar to that of a garbage compactor) to load paying passengers. Galleys have been eliminated on the new aircraft to make room for shackle and chain storage. Passenger baggage and carry-on luggage has been eliminated...entirely (plenty of room to cram a few hundred people in down there also).
That is all.
