Aircraft with improved field of view for passengers

An aircraft with an improved field of view comprising:

• a fuselage,
• thrust producing means,
• lift surfaces including a mainplane attached to said fuselage, and
• a cabin within and extending to and constituting the nose of said fuselage, the cabin enclosing seated accommodation for a plurality of passengers and for a pilot,
• said passenger accommodation comprising a plurality of passenger seats,
• said pilot accommodation comprising a pilot seat disposed behind and at a higher seating level than said passenger seats and having associated controls for said aircraft,
• said cabin having a cabin transparency comprising a substantially continuous area of transparent material extending rearwardly from the foremost part of the nose of said fuselage to said pilot seat to afford substantially unobstructed vision from the aircraft for respective passengers seated in a normal position upon said passenger seats and facing forwardly and to afford sufficient vision from the aircraft to pilot the same for a pilot seated in a normal position upon said pilot seat and facing forwardly,
• all of said thrust producing means being disposed substantially entirely behind all of said passenger and pilot seats,
• said mainplane being disposed substantially entirely behind all of said passenger and pilot seats and so as not to substantially reduce in any other normal flight attitudes of the aircraft that view of the ground which is afforded from the aircraft in straight and level flight for passengers and a pilot respectively seated in a normal position upon said passenger and pilot seats and facing forwardly, and
• said mainplane being selected to be efficient at airspeeds compatible with safe low flying for sightseeing or observation purposes.