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The Airplane of the Future May Not Have Windows
merbs writes: Hope you're not too attached to looking out the windows when you fly — the designers of tomorrow's airplanes seem intent on getting rid of them. A Paris design firm recently made waves when it released its concept for a sleek, solar paneled, windowless passenger jet. Before that, Airbus proposed eschewing windows and building its cabins out of transparent polymers. Now, the Center for Process Innovation has floated its own windowless plane concept, and it's attracting plenty of headlines, too.
most of the linked designs do have some form of external viewing that would be a lot better than just the tiny windows that you find on a standard plane.
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I'm sorry that you believe that the entire airplane is your own private, dark, quiet sleeping quarters. I like the feeling of openness by having that window up next to me, and helps me forget about the overweight smelly guy next to me who's snoring and leaning my way...
And the worms ate into his brain.
Errr...are you aware that Southwest Airlines had rows of rear facing seats on their commercial flights for many years?
Yes, I always have to sit in a front facing seat in a train otherwise I get motion sickness.
Mostly, however, the train doesn't tilt so that people looking backwards find themselves looking downwards at the top of a steep-looking incline. Which can be a little disturbing.
You don't notice the forward tilt on an airplane. They lose altitude while keeping the nose more or less upwards-pointing. Gaining altitude, on the other hand, especially the initial liftoff does dip the back quite a bit.