The unending mission to remove as much excess weight from commercial aircraft design has a new target: windows. As Slate blogger Lily Hay Newman explains, those tiny rectangles lining the sides of the fuselage require heavy materials to keep them securely in place. Designers at the British Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) want to do away with all that. Instead, they propose projecting images of the outside sky on flexible, light-weight OLED screens that wrap around the planes innards. Doing so would reduce weight, cost, and fuel consumption. You can watch CPIs promo video for this unique design here.
Posted on: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 23:35:27 +0000
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