Most patents can be filed without a working protoype. Anyhow, I can see that technology is going forward, whether we like it or not.
This idea, me no like. The day an operator asks me to fly a windowless cockpit, I'll go fishing. If that's the way they want it, they can find drone operators (they'll never be pilots), I'll take my bike and it the trails, as much fun.
The astronauts on Apollo mission said they wouldn't fly in the bloody re-entry capsule without a window, although they had no use for it. They got their window. Of course it's easier to have a handful of astronauts to stick together than thousands of pilots.
Chances are, in the near future, one idiot will actually come forward and offer to pay for himself to have the privilege of flying a windowless cockpit.
