"Helmet system replaces heads-up display on F-35s"

On 30 Apr 2007 08:24:15 -0700, wrote:

No HUD at all? Not even a backup system? Huh...wonder how that's going
to work out.

Just like in a jet with a regular HUD - if it fails, you just use your
backup (heads-down) instruments. No big deal (except for weapons
delivery, of course - then you have to use that piece of gum you keep
in your flightsuit for just this reason).

Better view out the window, too, without all that writing cluttering
up the view!

Of course, all those HUD babies out there will probably declare an
emergency and have to be led home...

Kirk


An old buddy who has been working out of Ft. Worth with the design
team was telling me at one of the Rat reunions about the integrated
video cameras mounted in the skin that project into the helmet based
on where you are looking. If you turn to a place where the airframe is
in the way you get video from the camera on the other side of the
structure so your view is unimpeded. If you look at the wing you see
video from the bottom side so you essentially look right through it.
Look at the floor and you get the bottom fuselage video so you see
what is beneath your feet.

Might be a bit vertigo inducing, sort of like hurtling through open
space at several hundred knots with nothing around you!


Ed Rasimus
Fighter Pilot (USAF-Ret)
"When Thunder Rolled"
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