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It looks like the Aereon. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AEREON_26 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AEREON_26 Which test flew in 1971. There is a book about it

It looks like the Aereon. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AEREON_26 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AEREON_26 Which test flew in 1971. There is a book about its development “flying deltoid pumpkin seed” Some more info: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/72142/ https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article...

virtue3 6y ago
What's interesting is the split tube design. Very different from usual flying wing designs I've seen. possibilities for more windows?
- LargoLasskhyfv 6y ago
  Who needs windows? Just give them all some AR/VR-Goggles, and have them look through the plane in any direction, like the helmet in the F-35 allows.
  - liability 6y ago
    I think any perceptible latency and turbulence together would probably turn the plane into a vomitorium. Unless perhaps all the passengers where fighter jet pilots with iron stomachs..
  - numpad0 6y ago
    Regulations
zwirbl 6y ago
non-amp: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/03/the-rocky-road-to-discovery/72142/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/03/the-r... non-mobile wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AEREON_26 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AEREON_26
justinclift 6y ago
Thanks wikipedia page doesn't seem to have any photos, but looking around on the net someone's made a (small) flying drone based on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdH2WaIfOPE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdH2WaIfOPE Seems to work ok. :)