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whats great about windowless airplanes?

• JumpCrisscross 8y ago
  > whats great about windowless airplanes? Blended-wing bodies [1] are very efficient. So you get a bigger jet that's cheaper to fly. Downside: some seats will be on the inside. Moreover, windows are a huge stress point on air frames. A windowless craft is cheaper to maintain. If there's one preference travelers show, it's that for cheaper tickets. A windowless blended-wing aircraft delivers on that. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blended_wing_body https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blended_wing_body
  • rbanffy 8y ago
    It'd be cool if they could have ceiling windows.
  • grej 8y ago
    One of the biggest issues with further adoption of Blended Wind Body aircraft is that current FAA regs require demonstration that deplaning the aircraft in an emergency is possible at full seating capacity, including crewmembers, in 90 seconds or less [1], although studies and simulations have been done that continue to evaluate this [2] BWB with their pax on the inside, make this very challenging. [1] s7: http://fsims.faa.gov/WDocs/8300.10%20Airworthiness%20Insp%20Handbk/Volume%202/2_077_00.htm http://fsims.faa.gov/WDocs/8300.10%20Airworthiness%20Insp%20... [2] https://fseg.gre.ac.uk/fire/fseg_ped2010_bwb_paper_distrib_final.pdf https://fseg.gre.ac.uk/fire/fseg_ped2010_bwb_paper_distrib_f...
• rbanffy 8y ago
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