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To: sukhoi-30mki

I guess this thing will fly as a drone because there are no cockpit windows for any human pilot. That sure will make navigating an airport taxiway tricky unless they will be using IFR on the ground.


6 posted on 03/14/2012 9:32:41 AM PDT by Obadiah (We are all Brietbarts now.)
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To: Obadiah

Not necessarily. NASA is researching windowless cockpits for future supersonic transports. The weight and complexity savings are huge if you can eliminate any kind of moving nose piece.

http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/spinoff1996/19.html


10 posted on 03/14/2012 10:13:02 AM PDT by MtBaldy (If Obama is the answer, it must have been a really stupid question)
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