SE-Vision test flights.
The Rockwell Collins Rockwell Collins, Inc. (NYSE: COL) is a large United States-based international company headquartered in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, primarily providing aviation and information technology systems, solutions, and services to governmental agencies and aircraft manufacturers. SE-Vision programme reached a new milestone
with the successful completion of military and commercial test flights
in June 2005. The SE-Vision flight technology integrates synthetic
vision-generated scenes with real-time enhanced vision imagery and is
currently testing sensor A device that measures or detects a real-world condition, such as motion, heat or light and converts the condition into an analog or digital representation. An optical sensor detects the intensity or brightness of light, or the intensity of red, green and blue for color systems. and synthetic imagery for the US Air
Force's mobility operations in a low-altitude tactical environment.
The June test flights were conducted on a Boeing 727-100 equipped with
Rockwell Collins' HGS-4000 Heads-Up Guidance System, Max-Viz dual
band infrared An invisible band of radiation at the lower end of the visible light spectrum. With wavelengths from 750 nm to 1 mm, infrared starts at the end of the microwave spectrum and ends at the beginning of visible light. sensors, a Rockwell Multiscan hazard weather detection
system and an LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) A display technology that uses rod-shaped molecules (liquid crystals) that flow like liquid and bend light. Unenergized, the crystals direct light through two polarizing filters, allowing a natural background color to show. head-down display. SE-Vision information and guidance
concepts were shown on both the head-up and -down displays.
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