Cockpit Displays Get a Facelift.Air Force F-15E fighter aircraft fighter aircraft Aircraft designed primarily to secure control of essential airspace by destroying enemy aircraft in combat. Designed for high speed and maneuverability, they are armed with weapons capable of striking other aircraft in flight. are being equipped with new flat panel color displays (FPCD FPCD Flat Panel Color Display FPCD Final Procurement and Construction ), made by Kaiser Electronics, a Rockwell Collins company. Currently, the aircraft have cathode ray tube See CRT. (hardware) cathode ray tube - (CRT) An electrical device for displaying images by exciting phosphor dots with a scanned electron beam. CRTs are found in computer VDUs and monitors, televisions and oscilloscopes. displays. The FPCD is an active matrix liquid crystal screen, five inches wide. It can be retrofit into other versions of the F-15 inventory, both U.S. and international. The displays feature full-color graphics video with high brightness and contrast--for sunlight readability--and can be used with night-vision goggles goggles, n the protective eyewear worn by dental personnel and patients during dental procedures. goggles see periocular leukotrichia. . Commercial off-the-shelf components were used in the design, but the system still had to be durable for military missions, where temperature or other environmental conditions can be extreme. Kaiser also is developing projection displays that rely on a single optical engine design for varied and scalable display sizes--from a 5-inch square to a 32-inch diagonal. |
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