System and method for displaying a view of an external environment of an aircraft inside the aircraft

A system for displaying a view of an external environment of an aircraft inside the aircraft, the system comprising:

• a plurality of optical couplers distributed across an outer surface of a fuselage of the aircraft and configured to capture light from the external environment of the aircraft;
• optical waveguides arranged through the fuselage to transmit the captured light from the optical couplers through the fuselage;
• at least one display arranged on the inside of the fuselage;
• and
• at least one of:
• a processing unit configured to receive the captured light from the optical waveguides, to reconstruct a digital live image of the external environment by combining optical information contained in the captured light across the respective optical couplers and to display the digital live image on the at least one display, and
• an optical beam expander configured to receive the captured light from at least one of the optical waveguides, to expand the captured light into a light beam carrying a visual live image of the external environment, and to project the visual live image on the at least one display.