The latest contender for ‘most scary yet
exciting passenger cabin ever designed’ has trumped its predecessor – the first
version boasted horizontal strips of screen on both sides of the plane’s
interior while this latest one features effectively see-through ceilings as
well as walls.
The S-512 being
developed by Spike Aerospace boasts a four-hour flight time from New York
to London, in part due to the reduced engineering requirements of a windowless
cabin (and leading to at top speed of 1375 MPH).
In this audacious
private jet, the windows and their supporting infrastructure are instead being
replaced with view screens that stitch together live footage being shot of the
plane’s surroundings while it is in flight.
Meanwhile, six months later, Technicon Design has released concept drawings
of Ixion, which likewise uses cameras mounted on the fuselage and wings to
capture images for interior high-resolution display, but with an added
dimension of also disappearing the rooftop of the cabin.
The nearly-continuous visual experience
would be segmented by strips providing lights and air conditioning, and in
theory the projections could be shifted on demand, from realtime scenery to
other full-surround displays. For now, though, only the first is a series
proposal for a real private plane – the latter is a conceptual design pushing
the idea further but with no plan for actual deployment.
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