Showing posts with label displays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label displays. Show all posts
Thursday, August 30, 2012
RNZAF helicopters
These are the older ones. But they put on a nice display... looks good when viewed large.
Friday, April 20, 2012
More spin please
More spin from the fan-base about the F-35.
This time it is about the cockpit displays and visual cueing in the helmet. Not mentioned in any of this is that the software management has a long way to go; the original helmet is faulty and there is a contract for a less bleeding edge design (with less capability than the dream); and that buffet and jitter make employing weapons difficult.
"What 5th-generation aircraft are all about." Well, I bet the dumber-than-a-new-born-chimp marketing wonks never thought that "5th-generation" meant spending over $100B for 120-some combat-coded F-22s and an F-35 program on death-watch.
LM (via SLD--hard to tell the difference) also want us to believe that the F-35 is an advantage in the joint battle-space because the cockpit would be the same for all services in an F-35 war-effort.
This may be true. However all this has to actually work. And if common displays were a real joint need, F-15, F-16, and F-18 would already have it.
Here is something that doesn't over-reach. Below are evolving display thoughts for the Super-Hornet roadmap. If Boeing fighter production is allowed to continue into the next decade, these kinds of displays would see their way to the F-15 program.
Observers close to the Boeing program indicate this kind of display (which also offers a 3D perception mode), will lower maintenance costs and lower avionics thermal output compared to the current Block II system now fielded. Combined with the joint-helmet-mounted-cueing-system, the combat pilot will end up with something that actually works, and, doesn't qualify as a class-A mishap if someone drops a helmet.
This time it is about the cockpit displays and visual cueing in the helmet. Not mentioned in any of this is that the software management has a long way to go; the original helmet is faulty and there is a contract for a less bleeding edge design (with less capability than the dream); and that buffet and jitter make employing weapons difficult.
"What 5th-generation aircraft are all about." Well, I bet the dumber-than-a-new-born-chimp marketing wonks never thought that "5th-generation" meant spending over $100B for 120-some combat-coded F-22s and an F-35 program on death-watch.
LM (via SLD--hard to tell the difference) also want us to believe that the F-35 is an advantage in the joint battle-space because the cockpit would be the same for all services in an F-35 war-effort.
This may be true. However all this has to actually work. And if common displays were a real joint need, F-15, F-16, and F-18 would already have it.
Here is something that doesn't over-reach. Below are evolving display thoughts for the Super-Hornet roadmap. If Boeing fighter production is allowed to continue into the next decade, these kinds of displays would see their way to the F-15 program.
(photo-Boeing)
Observers close to the Boeing program indicate this kind of display (which also offers a 3D perception mode), will lower maintenance costs and lower avionics thermal output compared to the current Block II system now fielded. Combined with the joint-helmet-mounted-cueing-system, the combat pilot will end up with something that actually works, and, doesn't qualify as a class-A mishap if someone drops a helmet.
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