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NASA, Lockheed Martin Reveal X-59 Quiet Supersonic Aircraft
(www.nasa.gov)
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It’s like a blind Pinocchio flying at the speed of sound controlled by a touch screen. 2024, ladies and gents.
What an ignorant statement...
It was a joke.
But no, I don't believe it's controlled with a touch screen. Though it is "daring" shall we say... to make a plane with no cockpit windows.
In commercial airliners, nearly the entire flight is now closely monitored and controlled by redundant computer systems. And the pilots rarely use the front window, they mostly fly by instrument.
Cameras as the cockpit windows aren't really that crazy at this point. Really glass cockpits are a formality.
Glass cockpit is a specific term for flight decks that have replaced analog gauges with digital gauges and screens.
Pilots use the windows all of the time. They use it to look for traffic and for vfr approaches.
You don’t need any aeronautical experience to fly it, but you need a 28” waist.