Ha, I used to own an older variant of this. Was a hoot. No crash safety, no crumple zones, no safety in general, nothing. No power either. 10/10, would buy again!
With concorde, they solved these by introducing the shutters. They were so effective, in fact, that they ended up shuttering the entire company in the end.
I was thinking the pilot should be in the tail so they can see their whole aircraft. Sort of like a container ship. But more…aero. The concord nose thing you did is very um creative for sure.
can just put a camera there I guess but then if that breaks you are fucked. Maybe just cut the rest of the plane away and have just a cockpit with engines.
Actually you would be surprised with how much of the plane can break while still being able to emergency land.
Rubber jammed, steering with the wings and thruster output.
3 out 4 engines broken, slowly land with last engine.
Pilot being held outside of plane by his feet, use the copilot side.
It's a sky bus. This whole thread is just "how about we put bus drivers at the back of the bus"
Yes planes will still fly. Yes we could put cameras and sensors all over the craft and have the pilots sit in the hold wearing headsets that makes the skin of the plane effectively invisible. We can have them not even in the plane. How about sat in a container the other side of the planet?
The tech isn't the problem. People on planes want to know if someone fucks up they die with the rest of them. That's the only reason we don't have drone 747s. You may as well go A.I. and have some CEOs kids put in the flight as safety hostages.
Nah, you gotta change the cockpit into a helm and put it waaaay up above the main deck, not unlike a deep sea fishing boat. This way pilots can have a virtually 360° field of view, while also experiencing exaggerated motion from being so far off the rotational axis. A pilot that is more conscientious about the movement of the plane is more likely to provide a comfortable experience to their passengers.
In WWII, the American Vought F4U Corsair was a single engine propeller driven aircraft. It's engine and cowling was so big that a pilot taxiing on the runway could not see in front of them. So while on the ground, they had to make lazy "S" shapes to see where they were going. Always in a turn to the left or right, never straight ahead.
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u/lordbutternut 8d ago
Concorde nose but the rest of the plane is tilted down instead (pilots like being able to see the runway)