Catalogue No: | C0798 |
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Category: | Head-Up Display [HUD] |
Object Type: | Module/Sub-Assembly/Component |
Object Name: | Tornado HUD Dual Combiner Assembly |
Part No: | E3887/53718 |
Serial No: | 209 |
Manufacturer: | Pilkington PE |
Division: | Unknown |
Platform(s): | Tornado |
Year of Manufacture: | circa 1998 |
Dimensions: |
Width (mm): 185 Height (mm): 283 Depth (mm): 220 Weight (g): 2,680 |
Location: | Rack RAA13 (HUD DU Parts) [Mezzanine Store] |
Part No E3887/53718 Iss AA
Ser No 209
31306/51D
XR205
PFD
PFP09889
1L3/PT
This is a complete dual combiner assembly from the Tornado Mid-life update HUD made by GEC Ferranti. These glasses use another technique of a special multi-layer coating called rugate technology. Rugates act like a single inhomogeneous film with a refractive index that varies continuously and periodically throughout the thin-film structure. The same impressive increase in transmission and reflection can be achieved as the ‘holographic’ system but without the bulk of the glass sandwich. Omitec originally developed thin-film rugate technology to manufacture "notch" filters of specific bandwidth. In 1991 flight tests of Head Up Displays, fitted with what was claimed to be the world's first airborne thin-film colour-selective graded combiners were commenced in a Harrier GR.7 and a Tornado GR.4 later in the year. Omitec also delivered Rugate coated Combiners to GEC Ferranti for the wide-angle HUD for the Royal Air Force's Tornado GR.4 mid-life upgrade.