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Airbus Patents Windowless Cockpit That Would Increase Pilots' Field of View

Posted by samzenpus on from the looking-at-the-screen dept.

Zothecula writes Imagine showing up at the airport to catch your flight, looking at your plane, and noticing that instead of windows, the cockpit is now a smooth cone of aluminum. It may seem like the worst case of quality control in history, but Airbus argues that this could be the airliner of the future. In a new US patent application, the EU aircraft consortium outlines a new cockpit design that replaces the traditional cockpit with one that uses 3D view screens instead of conventional windows.

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  1. blue screen of death by starworks5 · · Score: 5, Funny

    has never been more literally applied

  2. Prior art by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    The bridge of the Enterprise.

  3. Re:And when the video feed dies... by pkinetics · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ctrl-Alt-Del

  4. Re: Failsafe? by zlives · · Score: 5, Funny

    aha you hit the nail on the head.... the plane is windowless so you the passenger cannot see that there is NO PILOT

    (adjust my tin foil hat slightly)

  5. What could possibly go wrong here? by garry_g · · Score: 3, Funny

    After all, Windows is so old school ...