Emirates looks to windowless planes

i haven no problem with this. The windows just allow irritating sunlight in thats in your face.

Or its dark and people want to relax and some idiot opens their blind and bright light comes in. I say do away with them!
 
ForceFate said:
Ever walked through a narrow, unilluminated tunnel?
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:sick:
I can make myself do stuff. But the thought of an plane is already a freaky one for me now telling me an hour in a thing with no windows.
no no. nee nee. I might release the flying monkeys and then we are going to be on the news and the papprazi and everybody will have to sign NDAs nope. :D
 
Mila said:
:sick:
I can make myself do stuff. But the thought of an plane is already a freaky one for me now telling me an hour in a thing with no windows.
no no. nee nee. I might release the flying monkeys and then we are going to be on the news and the papprazi and everybody will have to sign NDAs nope. :D
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But those windows aren't there to let fresh air in, normally if they are letting air in for any reason, you're probably in serious trouble.
 
Mila said:
:sick:
I can make myself do stuff. But the thought of an plane is already a freaky one for me now telling me an hour in a thing with no windows.
no no. nee nee. I might release the flying monkeys and then we are going to be on the news and the papprazi and everybody will have to sign NDAs nope. :D
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:D
 
konfab said:
I would say windows would cause more safety issues than they solve in terms of the structural weaknesses they introduce.
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they why dont they take a cargo plane, and fly people in that?
windows are there for safety, light dimmed before takeoff, even a strap tied across the window of the door for this very purpose.

so people from the outside can see the door is armed, and will explode outwards should an emergency occur
 
daveza said:
Can they not put monitors where the windows should be and stream an outside camera to them ...
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I believe they already do that on a Singapore airlines plane in first class,
so some of the seats in the middle that anyway dont have a window, can have a window.
 
daveza said:
Can they not put monitors where the windows should be and stream an outside camera to them ...
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From the article,

Instead of being able to see directly outside, passengers view images projected in from outside the aircraft using fibre-optic cameras.
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Lupus said:
But those windows aren't there to let fresh air in, normally if they are letting air in for any reason, you're probably in serious trouble.
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For me its the ability to see. I'm also not bothered to be in scuba gear or snorkeling.
I think it compounds with the people I share the space with. Its not rational. It's like being scared of clowns.
ForceFate said:
:D
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:o
 
I want to go see G&R so badly.. :( But I can not share as space with that many people.
Flying monkeys and all that.
 
I have never seen one troepie not making the Flossie flights in bygone days. Windows were not a luxury in C160 and C130 aircrafts. :p
 
eg2505 said:
they why dont they take a cargo plane, and fly people in that?
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Because people (like most animals) don't like being in confined spaces. Windows give the illusion the plane is much bigger than it is.

eg2505 said:
light dimmed before takeoff,
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“You want your eyes acclimated,” says Jon Lewis, a senior pilot with a major U.S. airline. “During nighttime takeoffs and landings, you dim the lights so that you have some night vision going on.” Dimming cabin lights during the day, then, is less necessary, but does conserve some engine power as the plane hurtles toward flight. (Less taxation on the engine means an aircraft can shorten its takeoff roll, or when a plane is aligned with a runway centerline and will soon become airborne.)

Airplane power aside, the primary reason for a change in cabin lights is directly connected to why crewmembers ask passengers to raise their shades: safety in case of an emergency. It can take our eyes between ten and 30 minutes to fully adjust to a dark setting, reports The Telegraph, which means that dimming the lights can help eyes pre-adjust to lower light. And if it’s night when everyone must suddenly evacuate, those several seconds it takes for your eyes to calibrate to low-light conditions are precious, and can make all the difference in safely exiting the aircraft. In dimmer light, emergency lighting and illuminated pathways will be more visible, too.
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https://www.cntraveler.com/story/the-real-reason-planes-dim-the-lights-during-takeoff-and-landing

eg2505 said:
even a strap tied across the window of the door for this very purpose.
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I don't think all windows will be replaced. I think having a window on the door is pretty logical.
 
konfab said:
Because people (like most animals) don't like being in confined spaces. Windows give the illusion the plane is much bigger than it is.



https://www.cntraveler.com/story/the-real-reason-planes-dim-the-lights-during-takeoff-and-landing


I don't think all windows will be replaced. I think having a window on the door is pretty logical.
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correct, so this isnt such a bright idea having screens replace ALL the windows on a plane,
if its just used as a "virtual" window for those seated in seats in the middle, I can kind of understand what they trying to do.

at least they not considering standing room only flights:crylaugh:
 
Stokstert said:
I have never seen one troepie not making the Flossie flights in bygone days. Windows were not a luxury in C160 and C130 aircrafts. :p
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I flew in a C130, few windows, and the back door,
also not at altitude so could feel the turbulence,

imagine flying along in a sealed tube with no windows, except a few TV screens,

what if the TV screens lag? or glitch? and miss pixels?
 
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