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Wide FoV HMD RH

Technical Information

Catalogue No: C1763
Category: Head-Mounted Equipment [HMD/NVG/Glasses]
Object Type: Display Unit
Object Name: Wide FoV HMD RH
Part No: None
Serial No: None
Manufacturer: GEC Avionics
Division: Airborne Display [ADD]
Platform(s):
Year of Manufacture: circa 1989
Dimensions: Width (mm): 0
Height (mm): 0
Depth (mm): 0
Weight (g): 0
Location: Simulator Laboratory
Inscription(s):

None

Notes:

There are two similar HMD in the Simulator Lab and they are both functional originally being used on the Helicopter Simulator cockpit. Since these HMD were hard wired into the plinth they could not be moved so for now are called the Left Hand and Right Hand HMD.
The 40° by 30° field of view binocular Helmet Mounted Displays were designed and built by Flight Automation Research Lab (FARL) for Airborne Display Division. They have been used in a number of trials. For example at Southampton University one was used in collaboration with RAE Farnborough for studies into display performance under typical aircraft vibration, and another with Wright Patterson Air Force Base related to virtual cockpit research. Further use has included in-flight refuelling tanker boom operation and obscured driving experiments, both using remote viewing, and the design was modified to form the basis of the demonstrator system for the German PAH1 helicopter. This was an extremely useful design.

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