In 2024 the aircraft will not have power windows but let’s see … – Público.pt

             British project proposes best entertainment for passengers, less weight and less fuel consumption.
 
           

Imagine a plane without windows, completely transparent. If we analyze this hypothesis based on aeronautical engineering it will not be possible anytime soon, but a center of British technological innovation presented an alternative that makes it all possible through high definition displays. In addition to completely change the way it spends traveling aboard an airplane, interior space and increases the weight and decrease fuel consumption.

Images of the Centre for Process Innovation ( CPI) are impressive. Can initially be daunting for those who dislike of flying or suffer from vertigo but it must internalize that everything you see is virtual. On the sides and in almost all the cabin ceiling plates are replaced by high definition displays, creating an atmosphere of entertainment for both those traveling near the window as to who goes in places along the corridor. In addition to the screens, the CPI project proposes a change of illumination on board so that the effect is enhanced.

The CPI explains that the screens “ultra thin, very light and flexible are integrated in the fuselage and rear banks without ugly, awkward or heavy “boxes, this to anyone traveling in parts of the middle or along the corridor. According to the British center, all these features help to reduce the weight of the plane.

Noting that more than 80% of the total weight of a commercial airliner is distributed between the device itself and fuel, the CPI indicates that each decrease of 1% in weight translates to a saving of 0.75% fuel. “With less fuel, less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and lower operating costs … everyone wins,” said the institute.

The screens are replacing the panels on the sides and roof of the cabin and work on the part on the back of the front passenger seat will function as virtual what goes on outside the plane windows are clouds dusk or dawn, moonlight or starlit sky, all accompanied with adequate lighting to each image .

Images are projected through what is captured by cameras placed on the exterior of the plane and give the point of view of the passenger as if looking through a large window, with the image to move according to the movements of the user’s head. Each passenger can select the images to be among those who are willing to be shown on screens throughout the cabin, and even surf the internet.

The proposal of the CPI has not just a project but the center believes that may become a reality within ten years. For now, the main problem is to make flexible screens built with OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode) technology, which is produced by light emitting diodes (LED) organic. This technology has been announced, for example, by LG to manufacture a display with a concave curvature between the top and the bottom, made of plastic rather than glass.

“The optimum would be to OLEDs based devices that are flexible. We can make transistors that are flexible, but if we can do that are flexible OLEDs, this gives us a large potential market, because OLEDs can print on the package, we can create flexible displays, “explains Jon Helliwell responsible CPI, the The Guardian

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