Modern air travel is a marvel. It's also a source of endless delay, annoyance and planet-killing greenhouse gases. A proposed hydrogen-powered hypersonic airliner could change all that. The plane is Reaction Engines's A2 concept, a Mach-5 (3,400mph) craft for 300 passengers funded in part by the European Union's Long-Term Advanced Propulsion Concepts and Technologies project (Lapcat). Lapcat wants an airliner that can fly from Brussels to Sydney in less than four hours. If built, the A2 will do just that—without producing a trace of carbon emissions.
I believe I have a solution for the no window problem. Reaction should use a Flex Screen for each window. The flex screen would be molded to the shell of the plane and give the passengers the illusion of windows. The could be framed to look like any other window. The airline would take another plane and record the route to give the scene of each particular route. They would have to record on both sides of the plane and in various weather conditions and day times. I believe this illusion would help people not get claustrophobic in the plane. Also another point is what do passengers really think they are going to see at MACH 5: clouds. Maybe a few minutes of scenery for take off and landing.
When is Delphi marketing this all-glass cockpit? I think this is the next wave in auto accessories ! I think if they would expand on the idea then just what the picture shows. Make the cockpit more like a computer monitor. Where a person could customize it by changing benzels,inlays, colors, types of gauges, number of gauges, placement of gauges, analog or digital gauges and size of gauges. With special alerts overriding others, like a plug in radar detector having a display of a police car chasing another car when radar is detected. Also a low fuel, oil or other necessary warning go off and large above all others besides the little light or charm that cars do now. Other plugs ins or downloads that people could pay for additionally would be computer codes of engine problems with repair diagrams/pictures for their particular vehicle. These could be uploaded thru the cd system. Of course precautions would be made so the system would be safe for driving. You don't want to be learning how to repair a PVC value replace while driving 65mph down the interstate. The possibilities are limitless just like the new things we see for our computers everyday."


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