With just a turn of the head, digital helmet system zeros in on target by Randy Jacks on As the Advanced F-15 taxied to a stop at Boeing’s flight-test facility in the high desert near Palmdale, Calif., test pilot Dan Draeger gave a thumbs-up through the polished canopy. His face was partially hidden by the large reflective visor on his flight helmet. The F-15 had just spent more than three and a half hours in the skies over Southern California and the Pacific Ocean, while Draeger and a U.S. Air Force weapons systems officer, seated behind Draeger, tested and evaluated a new high-tech helmet and visor. “This definitely brings some great capabilities to the cockpit,” Draeger, Boeing Test & Evaluation chief F-15 test pilot, said after he climbed out of the air superiority fighter. The next-generation helmet uses digital technology and eventually will replace the analog technology currently used in the Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing System 42 Boeing Frontie rs
Frontiers June 2015 Issue
To see the actual publication please follow the link above