Spike Aerospace超音速私人飞机将配嵌入式显示屏

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波士顿的一家名为SpikeAerospace的制造公司最近宣布推出一款超音速私人飞机SpikeAerospace S-512，这架飞机将配备超薄嵌入式显示屏代替机舱窗户，这将给乘客展示机舱外的全景。

　　元器件交易网讯 2月19日消息，据外媒报道，Spike Aerospace S-512超音速喷气机还未成型，这架飞机目标瞄准了金字塔顶端的商界精英以及顶级富豪们，售价高达8000万美元。

　　为了完成这个愿景，飞机将会使用一组外部摄像头，或为乘客提供一个选择，用预先录好的录像或图像代替。

　　高峰航空在博客中称决定不设窗户，窗户通常需要额外的支撑结构，这就会增加飞机的重量。这不适合飞行速度达到每小时1370英里、巡航速度两倍以上的长途商业客运航班。

　　S-512是去年12月宣布设计的，设计团队来自空中客车集团(Airbus Group)、波音公司（Boeing）和湾流(Gulfstream)前任工程师们。

　　这架飞机可以载客18名，公司承诺纽约和伦敦航线需要三小时，洛杉矶到东京在大约6个小时，这需要打破音速。当然，这架飞机将于2018年进入生产阶段。与此同时，该公司将继续重组设计，那之后，他们计划用两年时间来制造并进行测试工作。

（元器件交易网董蕾 译）

　　外媒原文如下：

　　Spike Aerospace's S-512 supersonic jet project is far from being a real thing, but when the plane arrives and is actually sold for $80 million dollars a pop, one thing buyers won't be getting are windows — at least in the cabin. The company recently announced that the plane will eschew cabin windows in favor of super-thin embedded displays that will give passengers a panoramic view of what's outside. To complete the illusion, the plane will use an array of exterior cameras, or offer passengers the option to replace it with prerecorded footage or static images.

　　SEE WHAT'S OUTSIDE, OR SOMETHING ELSE ENTIRELY

　　Spike Aerospace explained the decision to go windowless in a blog post, saying windows typically require extra structural support, something that adds weight. That's not desirable for a plane that's been designed to hit speeds of 1,370 mph, more than twice the cruising speed of long-distance commercial passenger flights.

　　The S-512 was announced in December, and comes from a team of former engineers at Airbus, Boeing, and Gulfstream. The 18-passenger craft promises trips between New York and London in three hours, or LA to Tokyo in about six hours, something that requires breaking the speed of sound. Of course that's when the plane hits its manufacturing phase, something Spike projects for 2018. In the meantime, the company is still retooling the design for the craft, and plans to spend two years prototyping and testing after that.