If you dont like looking out the window on the flight...

[Dave_uk]

For those who don't like looking out the window .... take a look....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/jun/14/airbus-future-of-flying

 

[disneyholic family]

For those who don't like looking out the window .... take a look....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/jun/14/airbus-future-of-flying

i just had an anxiety attack just looking at that picture!!

way too much information!!

but i'm sure my DS would LOVE it.....

 

[2Tiggies]

I love it!! What an awesome way to fly. It would be even better if the floor in the aisles had a view too - walking in the air

 

[Pegasus928]

I could do that - and DD would love it too. Not so sure about DW and DS - but you can't please everyone

 

[disneyholic family]

I love it!! What an awesome way to fly. It would be even better if the floor in the aisles had a view too - walking in the air

walking on air??????????????? there aren't enough icons to express my thoughts on that idea!!!

this is for you:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-balcony-jutting-skyscrapers-103rd-floor.html

 

[2Tiggies]

walking on air??????????????? there aren't enough icons to express my thoughts on that idea!!!

Put them into photobucket and post them - I dare you

this is for you:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-balcony-jutting-skyscrapers-103rd-floor.html

It looks amazing. Thanks for that link. I have never seen that one before.

 

[disneyholic family]

i sent this article to DS and he was absolutely livid when he read it...
he said, WHAT? this is the best they can do?

this is their vision of air travel 40 years from now???????
he was extremely annoyed by their complete lack of imagination, assuming this is what they really are thinking (though of course, their true vision may be under wraps)..

 

[2Tiggies]

(though of course, their true vision may be under wraps)..

Well I don't know what their vision may or may not be, but WHAT A VIEW!!

 

[disneyholic family]

Well I don't know what their vision may or may not be, but WHAT A VIEW!!

DS was in the air force and is now in engineering school - so he has an engineer's point of view..

i was initially very surprised at his reaction...
we were at dinner last night and i asked him what he thought of the article i'd emailed to him..
he exploded with such passion in response.....really ANGRY at the article and airbus...
i hadn't even considered that they were talking about planes 40 years from now...
then when i thought about it, i could see what DS was talking about...
that in 40 years the only progress in air transport would be a see through skin?

still, his vehemence was amusing...but he's a passionate guy and very much believes in technology and where we should be...
(don't get him started about NASA and where the US space program is today - and where it's going...or not going....but be prepared for a very lengthy lecture)...

 

[kamik86]

DS was in the air force and is now in engineering school - so he has an engineer's point of view..

i was initially very surprised at his reaction...
we were at dinner last night and i asked him what he thought of the article i'd emailed to him..
he exploded with such passion in response.....really ANGRY at the article and airbus...
i hadn't even considered that they were talking about planes 40 years from now...
then when i thought about it, i could see what DS was talking about...
that in 40 years the only progress in air transport would be a see through skin?

still, his vehemence was amusing...but he's a passionate guy and very much believes in technology and where we should be...
(don't get him started about NASA and where the US space program is today - and where it's going...or not going....but be prepared for a very lengthy lecture)...

Planes take a long time to design though. As an engineer he should know that. For example my company designs submarines. I know when my company starts designing things for the Navy it is 20 years from concepts till they are built and most of the time we are reusing parts. From scratch has to take longer then that. 40 years isn't that long for planes since they take so long to design and then they stay in commission for years. How many years have the boeing 757s been used? I'm sure the insides will get more updates but the bulk of the plane itself probably won't see much for improvements in 40 years unless the technology to do so is already available today.

Your DS sounds like he is still in school and hasn't worked as an engineer (unless he was one in the air force perviously?) I definitely had much bigger dreams of what we should be able to do and how quickly before I got in the industry and realized just how complicated and long many of these processes are. Now my company work for the government so many private companies that don't need government approval for EVERYTHING could do these things faster but I have become a bit more grounded from my big dreaming days.

As for NASA and where the program is not going. When the rate for unemployment is as high is at is and the debt at record levels do you really think American's will allow the government to spend another several billion on NASA space programs?

The technology is there. We (as a country/world) could engineer almost anything you can imagine... the problem is getting someone to pay for it.

 

[disneyholic family]

Planes take a long time to design though. As an engineer he should know that. For example my company designs submarines. I know when my company starts designing things for the Navy it is 20 years from concepts till they are built and most of the time we are reusing parts. From scratch has to take longer then that. 40 years isn't that long for planes since they take so long to design and then they stay in commission for years. How many years have the boeing 757s been used? I'm sure the insides will get more updates but the bulk of the plane itself probably won't see much for improvements in 40 years unless the technology to do so is already available today.

Your DS sounds like he is still in school and hasn't worked as an engineer (unless he was one in the air force perviously?) I definitely had much bigger dreams of what we should be able to do and how quickly before I got in the industry and realized just how complicated and long many of these processes are. Now my company work for the government so many private companies that don't need government approval for EVERYTHING could do these things faster but I have become a bit more grounded from my big dreaming days.

As for NASA and where the program is not going. When the rate for unemployment is as high is at is and the debt at record levels do you really think American's will allow the government to spend another several billion on NASA space programs?

The technology is there. We (as a country/world) could engineer almost anything you can imagine... the problem is getting someone to pay for it.

he was annoyed since it was supposedly a visionary picture of planes 40 years from now...

as for NASA - i think a majority of americans would like to see NASA heading back to the moon and beyond.....when president bush announced exactly that a few years ago, there was very positive response...
Obama has pulled back from it...

the space program has continued through booms and busts in the economy...
there are gains from space exploration that are important in other areas of the economy...
When Kennedy set that impossible goal back in 1961 of reaching the moon within that decade, he set in motion a process that advanced technology by leaps and bounds in a very short time...
in the US, nothing has matched that level of advancement since (and the US has been basically standing in one place with the shuttle program - which by the way, was a colossal waste of money,....money that would have been better spent going back to the moon and beyond... )...

anyway....some private people are thinking and dreaming big....and the US space program might ultimately be saved by them..

 

[loobzuk]

I saw the pictures on a news programme and just remember thinking it looks lovely when you have a nice blue, calm sky but I couldn't help but think how it would be if there was a lightning storm all around! And the panic if you looked up and saw another plane above you - would possibly send people into a panic!

 

[disneyholic family]

I saw the pictures on a news programme and just remember thinking it looks lovely when you have a nice blue, calm sky but I couldn't help but think how it would be if there was a lightning storm all around! And the panic if you looked up and saw another plane above you - would possibly send people into a panic!

i thought about the storm scenario as well - but then figured they would have that kind of thing that turns opaque at the flip of a switch..

not just for storms, but also if everyone wants to sleep and it's bright daylight out - like now when they have everyone on the plane lower their window shades, since they don't want the rising sun to wake everyone....

 

[daipp]

If this was a Disney idea they would arrange to have Peter Pan or Aladdin flying past every few minutes or so....................

David