How cool is this?

[Shay]

Can anyone tell me what it is?

And before any of the smart ass's out there chirp in, NO it's not the Master Cheif from HALO 4

http://corvaircenter.com/phorum/download.php?70930,11377/HMD.gif

Shay
____________
Semper Fortis

[Bill Greenwood]

Don't really know, but I'll make a few guesses: It's Imus going out to a local NBA game; It's John McCain out for a normal shopping day at a local market in Indiana. If not one of those two, could it be a helment for an oprically controlled helicopter or some optically controlled system?

[tom d. friedman]

obviously some type of biological / or nuclear warfare life support system attachment, if god forbid flying in that environment.

[Shay]

Bill

Mostly No

Tom

Nope

Bill is the closest with "some optically controlled system". Care to guess as to what system?

I figure Randy might know.

Shay
____________
Semper Fortis

[Bill Greenwood]

Maybe it is not military at all. It could be a new step forward in Jet Blue's effort to make passenger comfort a top priority; they issue these to each person for those 9 hour times sitting on the ramp with a couple of hundred other people locked in an aluminum box.

[Randy Haskin]

F-35 helmet mounted display.

There's no HUD in that thing!! (I dare not call it the Lightning II)

[Shay]

F-35 helmet mounted display.

There's no HUD in that thing!! (I dare not call it the Lightning II)

BRAVO ZULU Randy



From one of the guys on the Corvair Forum I visit who works on this system:

Lockheed Martin has begun flying the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter with the helmet-mounted display (HMD) system that will be the primary source of flight information for pilots of the stealthy combat aircraft.

Developed by Vision Systems International (VSI), the HMD was used by chief test pilot Jon Beesley for the first time last week, on the 10th test flight of the F-35. Previous sorties were flown using only head-down instruments as the F-35 is the first fighter in decades to fly without head-up display (HUD).

The HMD provides a “virtual HUD” capability, says VSI, presenting flight symbology as well as displaying day and night imagery from the F-35’s 360° distributed-aperture infrared sensor and electro-optical targeting sensor.

I think every corvair owner should have one for their car.

Tom C
'63 Monza Convertible
NTCA
CORSA

Shay
____________
Semper Fortis

[Broken-Wrench]

I got to fly the simulator. It's incredible!!!!!

[Ztex]

I found this over at F-16.net

Cool...but I heard it weighs like 6-7 pounds....what would that feel like in an ejection?

[Neal Nurmi]

I liked Bill's replies better...