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Originally Posted by Big Dave
I think Phil got it.
A good aero downsloped window (say 10-12 degrees below hoizontal) may hold flow but you just can't see out of them. That was thebig beef with "fastback" cars in the 1960s - people simply couldn't see out of them.
Until we get legal all-round CCTV, we may be at the aerodynamic wall for extreme vehicles.
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With the aerospace community embracing all the fly-by-wire and electronic cockpits,etc.,hopefully it will be sooner than later.
Certainly,there's got to be a point where things are robust enough and failure-proof enough to allow the leap.
It's kind of a technology bottleneck.