Windowless Plane: Soon, The Sky's Truly The Limit (Photo)

For the bold and daring traveller, this is your dream fulfilled – riding aboard a windowless plane.

An organization in the U.K. called the Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) has come up with an early-stage concept of a plane that flies with full-length OLED screens displaying real-time hi-definition panoramic views of the world outside captured by cameras mounted on the plane's exterior.

In a report by the Guardian, the next-generation windowless commercial aircraft could be flying in the skies in 10 years.

Instead of looking at windows, passengers would seem to be floating along with the plane in the sky – something that would probably scare the wits out of a nervous flyer but would enthral one with an adventurous soul.

The concept, according to the report, is based on technology used in mobile phones and televisions.

CPI said the biggest benefit of removing windows from the aircraft is the sizable reduction in the plane's weight and thus in fuel consumption, which could then translate to lower flying cost.

In a video it uploaded to YouTube last Oct. 15, the CPI said over 3 billion people fly around the world every year, using 220,000 gallons of fuel and producing over 705 million tons of CO2.

"We had been speaking to people in aerospace and we understood that there was this need to take weight out of aircraft," said CPI's Dr. Jon Helliwell as quoted by The Guardian.

"Follow the logical thought through. Let's take all the windows out – that's what they do in cargo aircraft – what are the passengers going to do? If you think about it, it's only really the people that are sitting next to windows that will suffer."

You can watch the full CPI video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Ga3PMsrHpjU

Meantime, Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin Group, has announced in his company's web page that Virgin Atlantic Airways has started working on the technology required to produce the world's first glass-bottomed plane.

"I am incredibly proud of yet another aviation breakthrough which has been years in the making. I can't wait to experience the first flight for myself with my family and other natural born explorers," Branson said.