Catalogue No: | C1763 |
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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: |
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Location: | Simulator Laboratory |
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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.