On Fri, 31 Jan 2014 14:47:03 -0800 (PST), "kirk.stant"
wrote:

On Friday, January 31, 2014 4:28:46 PM UTC-6, son_of_flubber wrote:

I will not be surprised when pilots get a 360 degree view of the airspace
around them without the annoyance of an opaque instrument panel in front
of them. Whether that is done by wearing special glasses or plugging a wire
into the base of their skulls remains to be seen.

Years from now when that happens, I will probably think that it is a bad thing
and not "real flying".

You don't have to wait years, F-35 pilots have been doing it (or at least trying to do it)
for several years now. Called DAS (for Distributed Aperture System), it feeds
video into the pilots helmet so that he can look in any direction and see "through" the
aircraft structure, day or night.

So join the Air Force (F-35A), Marines (F-35B) or Navy (F-35C) and experience it now!

Of course, it still has a few bugs, nothing a few billion dollars won't fix...

Kirk
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For those interested in what this might look like, Raytheon has a
competing product (ADAS) mounted in a helicopter. Here's a link to
some promotional video of flight imagery.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16iW9mKJSuc

Bob