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Flight Testing Quadeye The First Night Vision Helmet Mounted Cueing System For Fixed Wing Jet Aircraft, Timothy Ghannon Burton
Flight Testing Quadeye The First Night Vision Helmet Mounted Cueing System For Fixed Wing Jet Aircraft, Timothy Ghannon Burton
Masters Theses
In 2002 the United States Navy introduced helmet mounted cueing systems (HMCS) into tactical jet operations. As aircrews have become more reliant on their HMCS the requirement for a night vision capable cueing system has risen to the forefront of HMCS technology. One proposed solution to this requirement was Quadeye. Quadeye is a wide-angle (100deg field of view) four cathode-ray tube system with injected Joint Helmet Mounted Cueing video. The Navy flew 8 evaluation sorties from March to August 2005, in the F-18 A-F fighter aircraft. The goal of this limited scope effort was to answer four questions:
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Does the …
Human Factors Evaluation Of Portable Electronic Devices In Tactical Aircraft, Martin Bernard Fuerst
Human Factors Evaluation Of Portable Electronic Devices In Tactical Aircraft, Martin Bernard Fuerst
Masters Theses
As the service life of aging military aircraft are extended and these aircraft are tasked with new missions they were never designed to support, military aircraft are constantly being upgraded with new systems and avionics. Additionally, many legacy aircraft have poor cockpit layouts or incorporate older displays that are not compatible with or require extensive modification to support these new technologies. Unfortunately, many acquisition programs do not have the luxury of an unlimited budget and schedule to complete the required upgrades. One alternative is to incorporate a portable electronic device or PED into the cockpit. These devices can provide moving …
An Analysis Of Target Location Error Generated By The Litening Pod As Integrated On The Av-8b Harrier Ii, Shaun C. Spang
An Analysis Of Target Location Error Generated By The Litening Pod As Integrated On The Av-8b Harrier Ii, Shaun C. Spang
Masters Theses
The modern battlefield continues to rapidly change requiring a quick, reactive, and precise strike capability by air forces. The Litening Pod (Tpod), as integrated on the AV-8B Harrier, can now be easily used by the pilot as a target coordinate generation source for global positioning system (GPS) guided weapons. This thesis has attempted to mathematically determine the target coordinate generation accuracy of the Tpod. The total mathematical target location error (TLE) was then compared to actual flight test data.
The analytical approach to calculating the accuracy of Tpod generated target coordinates has shown to be too conservative. This is due …