NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia is addressing runway and taxiway incursion threats by testing a variety of new technologies, one of the most interesting of which is a miniature head-up display that the pilot wears on his head and positions in front of the eye.
The display might not be the most elegant piece of equipment ever to grace the flight deck, but rarely must scientific experimentation focus solely on aesthetics. Unlike the integrated helmet and display sight systems used in the Army’s Apache attack helicopters, the head-worn display NASA is testing would mount to the side of the pilot’s headset in front of the right or left eye (depending on which is dominant). The goal is to provide the wearer with seemingly magical powers of vision, allowing the pilots to see a synthetic model of the world in every direction, even in zero-zero weather conditions.
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