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Idea for new passenger plane design.

I came up with the idea when flying and wanted to look out of the window, but those small windows are hard to get a good look out of.. sooo

how about completly removing the windows, and instead place small cameras outside the plane pointing away from the plane in a 360 degress way completly covering the plane. and those cameras would stream live video to a inbuild screen completly surounding the passengers inside the plane..

that would make the floor, roof, sides appear transparent giving the passengers a awesome view.
red dots a small cameras

OMG...

just did a google for type-o´s .. and found out somebody allready came up with this idea...

www.gizmowatch.com...

if only we had some transparrent aluminium!!!

reply to post by ZeroKnowledge

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yes I bet it would be more expensive, but I think there is a market for it.
atleast they save some money by not installing the windows

but just thought of another thing, how would the passenger know if what they where viewing is real, they could be playing a movie of a simulation of a planecrash..

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Transparent aluminum.

It would be awesome, unless being on a plane that crashes. With either systems...

Originally posted by NowanKenubi
reply to post by Biigs

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Transparent aluminum.

It would be awesome, unless being on a plane that crashes. With either systems...

how about playing a movie of a plane crash while flying ... that would freak the passengers out

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There are new types of glass being created that have plastic and metal like properties as well as the all important transparrent quality.

If a transparrent material that was as durable (or preferably better) as the materials used to build planes now, it wouldnt make any difference in a crash - the horror of seeing it coming of course is whats really to be debated

Airbus has it's transparent plane.

Airbus concept for 2050

Airbus video (bottom of page)

Originally posted by looofo
Airbus has it's transparent plane.

Airbus concept for 2050

I allready linked to it in my intro thread.. if you read it all

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glass bottomed zepplins, you know you want one!!!

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But you know, the idea could be expanded to submarines and space stations, like a hotel room

wow.. just wow.. that would just be so trippy, I hope they will

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