Aviation expert Steve Varsano breaks down Otto's Phantom 3500, a windowless jet with a screen running the full length of the cabin instead of windows. Flexjet ordered 300 of them. It claims 50% lower operating costs and a 51,000-foot ceiling, but Varsano notes that watching a screen isn't quite the same as looking out a real window.
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Flexjet has just ordered 300 of these windowless private jets.
Yes, you heard that right, a private jet with no windows. But this is an amazing new technology. It's going to improve the performance.
This does look like a window, and of course it's actually just a screen.
You're going to actually have a TV screen that runs the length of the airplane. This is the Otto Phantom 3500. This is a brand new manufacturer. It's a startup. They're taking a lot of executives from existing manufacturers and a lot of technology that's from their experience of building other airplanes. Planes.
And if I don't say so myself, this interior is pretty stunning. Although looking out a screen would not be quite the same effect as actually looking out a window.
I actually have better magnification. You can change to have a full window across the whole fuselage.
It will, in theory, allow this aircraft to be much more efficient. Here's a better look at the aircraft on their website, and it has a max altitude of a whopping 51,000 feet.
The corporate jets are usually flying between 41,000 and 51,000 feet.
You can actually get over a lot more of the weather The company says it will fly at transonic speeds and have an operating cost 50% less than that of its competitors.
That's pretty incredible. 50% less of an operating cost. That's amazing. And I can tell you from experience, when people are buying airplanes, sure, they're obviously going to buy what they can afford to buy. The companies want to know what their actual capital cost is going to be to buy the airplane. But much more importantly, they want to know what the operating costs are. And they always have to justify the trips to the expense. And if you can reduce your expense by 50%, that's pretty amazing.
Some of that coming from lower fuel burn, as you can see here. It's no doubt an interesting design, but how do you feel about not having windows at all?
Actually get on the airplane and physically experience it. The younger generation is going to adapt very quickly to something like this because anything with technology, with screens and glass, that's what just everybody lives on. I mean, so it's something really exciting to look forward to.
