New Helmet Allows Pilot To “See Through” Aircraft
RAF Experimental Helmet
“The British military is testing a new helmet that allows fighter pilots to see through their airplanes. The system is actually very elegant in its simplicity. A series of camera are placed on the outside of the plane. The images from the cameras are fed back to the cockpit where they are projected inside the specially designed helmet, allowing the pilot to see 360 degrees around him/her. It will look to the pilot as if there is no plane at all… The cameras will even have infrared sensors, allowing pilots to look down, through the cockpit floor, in the dead of night, and identify targets.”
BY TERRENCE O’BRIEN for switched.com
Original article from the Daily Mail.
