Bertie the Bunyip[_22_]
January 20th 08, 09:46 AM
Rob Arndt > wrote in news:ce0e7c15-8361-413f-a1e7-
:
> On Jan 19, 9:52�pm, Rob Arndt > wrote:
>> http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/wp-content/uploads/f-35_hmds.jpg
>>
>> Most fighter plane cockpits are designed with a heads up display (HUD)
>> which projects vital information on a glass screen in front of the
>> pilot so he can pay more attention to what goes on outside the plane
>> and not the instruments and displays inside the plane.
>>
>> Until now, that is. That's because the F35 Lightning II Joint Strike
>> Fighter - a joint endeavor from Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, Northrop
>> Grumman, and British Aerospace - has become the first fighter aircraft
>> in decades to be designed without a HUD. This is thanks the fighter
>> pilot's new, and albeit frightening, best friend, a combat helmet
>> which uses a miniaturized version of the HUD inside the helmet itself
>>
>> - Cool-Gadgets.com
>>
>> Rob
>
> Eurofighter helmet HOD:
Yeh, right.
Bertie
:
> On Jan 19, 9:52�pm, Rob Arndt > wrote:
>> http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/wp-content/uploads/f-35_hmds.jpg
>>
>> Most fighter plane cockpits are designed with a heads up display (HUD)
>> which projects vital information on a glass screen in front of the
>> pilot so he can pay more attention to what goes on outside the plane
>> and not the instruments and displays inside the plane.
>>
>> Until now, that is. That's because the F35 Lightning II Joint Strike
>> Fighter - a joint endeavor from Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, Northrop
>> Grumman, and British Aerospace - has become the first fighter aircraft
>> in decades to be designed without a HUD. This is thanks the fighter
>> pilot's new, and albeit frightening, best friend, a combat helmet
>> which uses a miniaturized version of the HUD inside the helmet itself
>>
>> - Cool-Gadgets.com
>>
>> Rob
>
> Eurofighter helmet HOD:
Yeh, right.
Bertie