CPI

UK-based Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) has come up with a windowless aircraft concept, which will replace windows with ultra-thin smartscreen panels.

The new concept will see the aircraft equipped with touchscreen technology, which will allow passengers to adjust lighting or change the panoramic view of the skies.

It will provide passengers with views outside the aircraft captured by cameras mounted on the aircraft’s exterior.

Planned to be made using organic light-emitting diodes (OLED), the smart-screen panels will replicate the environment outside the aircraft, as well as allow passengers to use the internet.

"It will provide passengers with views outside the aircraft captured by cameras mounted on the aircraft’s exterior."

The concept is said to reduce weight of an aircraft, increasing fuel efficiency and enhancing fuselage safety.

CPI Printable Electronics business unit director Jon Helliwell was quoted by The Guardian as saying: "We had been speaking to people in aerospace and we understood that there was this need to take weight out of aircraft.

"What would be great would be to make devices based on OLEDs that are flexible.

"We can make transistors that are flexible but if we can make OLEDs that are flexible, that gives us a lot of potential in the market because we can print OLEDs on to packaging, we can create flexible displays."

CPI expects the new aircraft concept to take-off in a decade.

Image: The windowless aircraft concept will provide passengers with views of outside the aircraft. Photo: courtesy of Centre for Process Innovation Limited.

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