Re:New NASA X-Plane Construction Begins
by rbanffy on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @10:13AM
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Aerodynamics, probably. Also, at that geometry, if the window were to provide any view forward, it'd need to be enormous.
A full-sized plane would probably have some front-facing windows, but I'd expect most of the visual approach to be done by instruments anyway. In order to have a view of the runway during landing, the Concorde had an enormous and heavy movable nose.
A full-sized plane would probably have some front-facing windows, but I'd expect most of the visual approach to be done by instruments anyway. In order to have a view of the runway during landing, the Concorde had an enormous and heavy movable nose.