Next generation windows

[CaptainProp]

Next generation windows on show at EBACE:

SkyView panoramic windows (http://ebace.aero/2014/wp-content/gallery/ebace2014-photo-gallery/Ebace-20th-77.jpg)

Looks great!

[ericlday]

Had me thinking it might have been Windows 9 !!!!

[BOAC]

Hope the toilets don't have those- you'd never have any privacy............

[KBPsen]

I can see arguments of the pugilistic kind breaking out when 3 or 4 rows share the same window blind.

[joy ride]

A fight might be more entertaining than some of the in-flight films I have endured. The photo is interesting: big panoramic windows for business men to turn their backs on.

[SpringHeeledJack]

Nice idea, I wonder what thickness the panes are and how many layers of whatever make up said pane ? I might be off with my judgement, but most of the aircraft such features would be placed in, would transport persons of high wealth who generally prefer to be more discrete.

No doubt there will be the ability to 'mist' the glass as is evident in some 5star hotel suites, though it would be interesting to know if sections of the pane could be darkened or only the whole area of the pane.

[crewmeal]

Didn't the Comet 1 have similar windows like this? Look what happened to that! They changed the design to round ones. What's needed is 'Viscount' type where you have an excellent view.

[mad_jock]

it looks more like a cabin services simulator.

It wouldn't be really feasible for a window to be that long as they have to fit between the hull ribs. And if you spread the ribs to far apart the skin has to be thick to take the load of being pressurised.

[HEATHROW DIRECTOR]

DC-3 Viewmaster conversions provided several "double" windows along each side. Here's a snap I took of one in the USA nearly 50 years ago. I'm sorry it's not very good but if you Google DC-3 Viewmaster there are plenty on there.

http://i1286.photobucket.com/albums/a610/brendan_mccartney/Aircraft/N81B_zpscf4faff3.jpg

[joy ride]

crewmeal: the shape of the Comet's windows enabled the cracks to grow faster, but it was NOT the actual cause of the cracks! de H management did not fully trust the new Redux process and insisted on adding extra rivet plates as used in non-pressurised airliners and it was these "reinforcements" which ironically actually caused the cracks.

Other pressurised airliners like the Sud Aviation Caravelle (triangular windows) and Lockheed L1011 (square) did not have similar problems as they, like all modern airliners, used only Redux or a similar process. They dol have rounded corners, as did the early Comets; later models used elliptical windows.

mad_jock: a good composite fuselage can be capable of greater frame gaps!

Unpressurised aircraft, like the DC3 Viewmaster have greater freedom of window shape and size.

[mad_jock]

I am sure it can in certain sections And maybe also tension wires used through the window to transfer load.

[keesje]

New panoramic windows option for 737 launched last week at Ebace.

https://www.modstore.aero/uploadedImages/modification/df2ba635-d7c3-4a5d-9d93-8b7c9c51236a-1.jpg
https://www.modstore.aero/modifications/type(71)/Boeing_737%20NextGen/modificationId(10090)/Panoramic%20Window%20BBJ

For for the real Wealthy I guess..

[PAXboy]

Showing that the windows are for the BBJ puts them into perspective (pun intended!) it would not be worth the cost in a commercial pax airframe. Just two each side makes sense,