Rich_R

I hope they have more luck with the view system than Boeing and USAF on their newest tanker.

Like weather guessers without a window, don’t think I could trust a plane without one either…but then again, did the engineers design for pilots or “specimens”?

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…or is it a “Spirit of St Louis” high-tech periscope augmenting peripheral view?.. in the event of failure, side-slipping to see runway probably not recommended.

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Wisdom would suggest a periscope be installed as a back up.

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No forward “window” but that is a heck of a camera blister. You’d think they could just mount the camera in the leading edge of the vertical stabilizer. Or for that matter, on the nose of the aircraft.

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Short pax in snout?

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How many times is NASA gonna test sonic boom demo airplanes … until they run out of other people’s money? I worked on a project like this nearly 20 years ago funded by NASA and DARPA and … here we go again.

AND, yeah … a pop up periscope would be a wise back up. Are the FAA people who are OCD over safety gonna allow this thing to fly over people?