Cool attitude indicator

In article .com,
"Jay Honeck" wrote:


This sounds like science fiction (or, at least, it did to me) -- so
imagine my surprise when I found that this very system was used in the
SR-71 Blackbird -- a plane that was designed and built over 40 years
ago.

Who'd a thunk it?

From looking at this picture I wouldn't have:

http://www.sr-71.org/photogallery/bl...17976/cockpit/

--
Dale L. Falk

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing
as simply messing around with airplanes.

http://home.gci.net/~sncdfalk/flying.html

On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 11:17:44 -0800, Dale wrote:

Following up my own post, here's the first google hit on the terms:
'figure ground reversal 'artificial horizon'." It's a six page report
on a study at the USAF Academy.

http://atlas.usafa.af.mil/dfem/resea...er-30-Self.doc

Don

"Don Tuite" wrote in message
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On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 11:17:44 -0800, Dale wrote:

Following up my own post, here's the first google hit on the terms:
'figure ground reversal 'artificial horizon'." It's a six page report
on a study at the USAF Academy.

http://atlas.usafa.af.mil/dfem/resea...er-30-Self.doc

Don

From your google list, is this interesting research by the Canadians:

http://www.ainonline.com/Departments...ar04.htm#jan04

....and it was purposefully done in a real airplane instead of a desk
simulation...

I wish he had supplied pictures...

"Icebound" wrote in message
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I wish he had supplied pictures...



I found one!

This looks like an early prototype picture of what he was talking about:
http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/aboutUs/co...ge2e_e.html#a4