NASA and Lockheed Martin formally debuted the agency’s X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft Friday. Using this one-of-a-kind experimental airplane, NASA aims to

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    10 months ago

    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.

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      10 months ago

      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.