The 787 design is based on connecting together composite fuselage barrels from different factories worldwide. In the areas where the barrels are connected, no passenger windows can be installed due to the structural connections between fuselage barrels. This will result in passenger rows where there will be no natural visual access of passengers seated in those rows.
Appropriate Systems (www.ApproSys.com) has a simple solution to this problem that will not entail much weight and redesign.
This solution entails the fitting of an LCD screen connected to several external cameras, to the window area of the passenger row. The LCD screen will have controls for dimming, choice of view, and zoom, among others. This virtual window will approximate the views of a natural window, and have features that a natural window does not have - choice of view, zoom, PC monitor, etc.
This system can also be connected to the Net and entertainment system of the 787. It can be the precursor of a BWB virtual window system, and a Virtual Cockpit System.
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Monday, January 12, 2009
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