Catalogue No: | C1694 |
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Category: | Head-Up Display [HUD] |
Object Type: | Display Unit |
Object Name: | Tornado HUD Pilot's Display Unit |
Part No: | 3887/53410/05/002 |
Serial No: | 227 |
Manufacturer: | GEC-Ferranti |
Division: | Display Systems Group (Edinburgh) [DSG(E)] |
Platform(s): | Tornado |
Year of Manufacture: | circa 2002 |
Dimensions: |
Width (mm): 180 Height (mm): 380 Depth (mm): 650 Weight (g): 20,500 |
Location: | Rack RAA14 (HUD DUs) [Mezzanine Store] |
Pilots Display Unit
3887/53410/05/002
Spec SP-P -970621-00P
NSN 1680-99-724-3657
Ser. No. 277
Kg.
K0656
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Software Standard 2
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Combiner Assy. Ref. No. 3887/53715
NSN
K0662
Ser. No. 285 2002
Bidding for the Royal Air Force's Tornado GR4 mid-life upgrade started in 1987 and the Company bid a variant of the F-16C/D HUD system. The GR4 programme was much delayed and finally commenced in 1996. In 1991 Omitec delivered Rugate coated Combiners to GEC Ferranti for their wide-angle HUD. This work was supported by DERA and resulted in a successful bid. GEC Ferranti stated that the combiner coating would allow the display brightness to be increased by some "three to six" times of the original. The stated luminance to the pilot is around 5100cd/m² which is indeed significantly more than a conventional HUD with a P43 phosphor on the CRT and neutral density Combiner coatings which is typically 1500cd/m². This made cursive symbology easier to read as well as making possible daylight viewing of the forward-looking infra-red image. The Type 9000 HUD has a 25° Total Field of View but has dual Combiner glasses. The CRT uses the P53 phosphor which was not initially liked by pilots because of the colour but its good burn resistant properties and narrow bandwidth have made it an industry standard now. This HUD also has a full colour recording Camera on the aft end.
142 Tornado GR.Mk 1 aircraft were rebuilt to the improved Tornado GR.Mk 4 mid-life upgrade standard with the new Ferranti HUD, new Smiths colour HDD, updated weapon control system, new computer loading system, new digital storage/image generating system for the moving map display, integrated defensive suite, and an interface permitting the carriage of the TIALD pod.
This PDU is a much later model than that in C0416.