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Would it be efficient to have a passenger planes cockpit move to the back of the plane, rather than the front? What I have in mind is cameras on the fuselage and nosecone that connects to the cockpit and give the pilot a wider viewpoint

Greenie E.
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    How would that be better than sitting in the front from the get-go and doing away with, you know, the cameras and screens and such? – John K Dec 24 '19 at 21:10
  • @JohnK I'm asking for a story I'm writing, though I won't go into details. – Greenie E. Dec 24 '19 at 21:12
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    Welcome to aviation. SE! This question has some related information. It might help if you can tell us why you think it could be more efficient. – Pondlife Dec 24 '19 at 21:14
  • Science fiction? – John K Dec 24 '19 at 21:22
  • @JohnK Based entirely on real-world science, though it is a dystopian future – Greenie E. Dec 24 '19 at 21:24
  • @JohnK I wouldn't be asking the question if it were science fiction – Greenie E. Dec 24 '19 at 21:25
  • Well you could have the plane as more or less an autonomous drone with a compartment in the back where a human "minder" pilot is there for emergencies to land it of the drone goes haywire, relying on 3D cameras. – John K Dec 24 '19 at 21:39
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    What do you mean by "efficient"? – Carl Kevinson Dec 24 '19 at 22:47
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    I initially interpreted "efficient" as suggesting that a rear cockpit would be close to the tail control surfaces and no farther away from the wings and engines, so all the control lines etc. would be shorter. It would be nice to have clarification of what that word actually means in this question. – Ray Butterworth Dec 25 '19 at 01:44
  • He's writing fiction and needs to know if there are any efficiency advantages to such a configuration, that would make a fictional aircraft designed like that technically plausible to the reader, because that configuration is necessary to the plot line. – John K Dec 25 '19 at 02:06
  • Perhaps he was inspired by the Thunderbird's Fireflash, with the cockpit in the vertical stabiliser? https://youtu.be/s1jrIbXTnak – Mackk Dec 25 '19 at 02:19
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    This adds way too much complication. Just do away with all the complicated stuff – lpydawa Dec 25 '19 at 04:12
  • You mean like this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gee_Bee_Model_R The only real advantage seems to be that you can hang a great big radial engine on the front :-) – jamesqf Dec 25 '19 at 04:55

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