"Muhahahaha! All you need is passenger acceptance of being deprived of windows. I'm afraid it will take more than that to derail the Airbus A380 program."
Reminds me of sitting in an advanced aerodynamics course years ago. The instructor, (an aeronautical engineer) was whining about "human factors." He pointed out how fuselage shapes of transonic and supersonic aircraft caused unnecessarily heavy drag due to its shape having "to accommodate windshields for the pilots to see out." He explained how an aircraft could be designed to be far more efficient at high speed by reshaping the front end and supplying the pilots with TV screens to see with. The class, (all pilots) stared blankly at the engineer with a combination of contempt and pity.
Last edited by GAU-8 : 04-10-2008 at 16:42 PM.
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