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Emirates Planes Could Be Going Windowless (abc.net.au)
An anonymous reader shares a report: In the future, you could find yourself booking an Emirates flight without a real window seat. The airline has just unveiled a new first class suite on board its latest aircraft that features "virtual windows" instead of real ones. The President of Emirates, Tim Clarke, is hoping it will pave the way for removing all windows from future planes, which he says will make them lighter and faster. "What we may have [in the next 20 years] is aircraft that are, and I hate to say this to a number of passengers, windowless," he told the BBC. So there's no windows on the outside ... But Mr Clarke says on the inside there will be "a full display of windows," which will beam in the images from the outside. This will be done using fibre-optic camera technology. So, instead of being able to see directly outside, passengers will view images projected from outside the aircraft -- which is almost like the real thing.
Scotty gave you the formula in 1986 where is it!
They will be peril-sensitive and go dark in emergencies, to reduce passenger stress levels.
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The new video windows will alternate between showing old episodes of Will and Grace and a safety video about choking on airline peanuts.
First hack of this system needs to show a monster on the wing of the airplane.
The cockpit doesn't need windows, it needs Linux.
watching the channel obviously. Space travel is dangerous and maims the body with radiation.
I'm pretty sure pilots can tell whether engines are still attached to wings even without windows or cameras.
I've always wondered why planes today don't have positioned cameras for the pilots to use to look at their plane
Would it kill them to put a couple of big rear-view mirrors on either side of the planes to look backwards?
I mean, really, cars have solved this since forever. /s
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The Blue Screen of Death, a.k.a. 'the sky', is a desired feature in this release. My how things have changed!
I would love if they added AR (augmented reality) options. Maybe every once in a while have dragons of UFOs flying around, or maybe a gremlin on the wing