Eltra Aeronautics is displaying its intelligent glass windows, which use technology developed by French manufacturer Saint Gobain Sully.
Light can be electronically monitored, so the windows can progressively darken or lighten through a cycle of five settings and be either individually or centrally set to any intermediate level.
He Pengsheng, new business and sales director, Asia Pacific says: “The system has several applications. It can be used for individual passenger comfort, but also saves weight as it eliminates the need for blinds. It can also be used in the cockpit and protect sensitive avionics by reducing solar energy coming through the screen.”
As a darker environment is cooler, the windows also bypass the necessity of carrying an APU to provide onboard air conditioning. According to the company, it has received a great deal of interest from major OEMs of both fixed wing and rotorcraft and it will soon receive JAA approval for the technology.
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Source: Flight Daily News