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Left side - FLIR Landing system presentation. Right Side - View out of the cockpit.
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Here's a short
film BullsEye
produced for Anteon, a defense contractor who manufactures the latest
Forward Looking Infrared equipment for fighter jets.
This version will be in the new 787 Dreamliner being built by Boeing. This is an F-16 on a visual landing into Aspen, Colorado at night. The right half
of the view is
the pilot's normal visual path to the runway during darkness. In other
words, totally black. The left side of the screen is the Forward
Looking Infrared (FLIR) that paints the heat signature of
the outside
terrain for pilots so they can see at night as though it were daytime.
FLIR Technology is a great addition to the cockpit of commercial as
well to military aircraft. It enables a pilot to successfully land an
aircraft at night under VFR (Visual Flight Rules)!
Pilot: Lt. Col.
Mack "Big
Nasty" Collins Voices of the pilot and tower operator are audible.
might need to turn up the volume. Notice how quiet, however, the
interior of the F-16 is. Older military jets were not this quiet.
They have
adopted General Dynamics' "quiet as a mouse" noise abatement technology
used in the Gulfstream jets.
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