![]() The image would be generated from the data supplied by on-board video camera located in the front and the rear of the aircraft.Įxample : When the aircraft is taxiing on the ramp, the screen would display a 3D image of the airport generated from the data captured from the video camera and the data stored in data banks on ground. The digital image would be projected in the form of a hologram or any other advance technology. Airbus also claims that this invention can increase the payload capacity of the aircraft in their patent. This not only gives a better aerodynamic design to the aircraft, but also increases the pilots’ field of view. Since there is no need for the pilot to actually look outside, the entire cockpit can be shifted to another location freeing up space in the front of the fuselage. This invention solves this problem by shifting the cockpit at another location which allows the engineers to modify the shape of the nose. Conventionally, it is located in the front of the fuselage with slanted window panes which allows the pilots to have an unobstructed view of both forward and downward of the aircraft.įor maximum aerodynamic efficient design, the nose of the aircraft should ideally be of lancet shaped (like a knife) but to accommodate the radome and the landing gear, it is modified to give a larger radius of curvature. The cockpit is the room reserved for pilots comprising of all controls necessary to fly the aircraft. Looking at the bigger picture, this invention is basically replacing the glazed cockpit window with a large screen displaying a digital image of the outside environment. In 2014, Airbus registered a patent featuring the idea of “windowless” cockpit which would increase pilots’ field of view. This may look stupid to many of the readers, but Airbus advocates that it may be the future of aircraft design. You would feel dumbfounded be reluctant to board the aircraft, right? Well, in a few years you may find every Airbus aircraft without cockpit windows. This exhibit brings together passenger ephemera and other materials from the collections of Northwestern University’s Transportation Library to celebrate the jumbo jet on the fiftieth anniversary of the launch of 747 passenger service.Imagine that you are boarding an aircraft and you find out that there are no cockpit windows, rather an opaque cone of metal sheet covering the entire cockpit window area. The jumbo jet came to occupy a permanent place in the popular imagination around the world and remains, decades later, a symbol that represents the glamour of air travel in a bygone age. ![]() ![]() Spacious interiors with luxury appointments and enhanced in-flight dining and entertainment experiences, available to first-class and economy passengers alike, served as marketing tools for the airlines that operated the 747. ![]() With increased capacity and lowered costs, the 747 helped make the air travel experience accessible to middle-class travelers. With the first flight from New York to London, Pan Am’s Clipper Young America ushered in the jet age’s second phase: the era of wide body aircraft.ĭeveloped by Boeing to maximize seat-mile and ton-mile revenues, the aircraft also extended the golden age of air travel as the 1960s came to a close. Longer than the Wright brothers’ first flight, wider than a boulevard, and with a tail height as tall as a six-story building, the 747 was a revolution in aviation technology and the passenger experience when it entered service on January 22, 1970. ![]()
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