Chapter 511: Advanced Display System
One flat three down, is a head-up display and three down-looking displays, these three below the display, has almost filled the entire dashboard, only a few mechanical instruments remain, which is also estimated to be the need for the test flight, and so on to complete the test flight, everything is fine, it is estimated that there is no need to keep the mechanical instrument.
Qin Feng is very shocked by this, now, a variety of mainstream aviation magazines, has begun to vigorously promote this layout, this kind of display interface is quite concise, you can switch back and forth to display the content, reduce the pilot's labor intensity, but at the same time, it also puts forward higher requirements for the electronic technology level on the aircraft, no diamond diamond, no porcelain work, this is really not good design.
In this era, even the United States has not done this.
Their F-15 cockpit only has one down-looking display, and the F-16 was born later, so it has two down-looking displays, which are placed left and right in front of the cockpit, and it looks quite tall, who would have thought that Qin Feng actually saw three here!
The display of this cabin, they are afraid that they are already the strongest in this era, Qin Feng looked at it and immediately felt his saliva flowing out, and then think about his own Jian-7 fighters, all of them are mechanical instruments, I don't know when they will be able to improve to this level.
"Do you know which cockpit is the most advanced in the United States?" Lamor asked, this is a model, you can only look at it, you can't touch it, so Qin Feng went up to take a look, and then he came down, and the second one to go up was Song Lao, and after Qin Feng came down, Lamor asked questions.
“F-16?” Qin Feng asked, if you go to Pakistan another day, you must find an opportunity to let them show the fighter plane to themselves, even if they can't fly, go up and sit down, the cockpit of this kind of fighter is the most advanced!
"No, it's not the F-16, it's the F-20." Ramour said.
F-20? If you are not a military fan who is familiar with aviation knowledge, it is estimated that you don't know this number at all, this is a rather strange number, in the sequence of the US Air Force, it has never been equipped, and it is not even as good as the AV-8B, so it is in service in the Marine Corps.
However, this kind of aircraft does exist, in fact, the prototype of this kind of aircraft is the F-5 fighter.
F-5 is the representative work of Northrop, this kind of aircraft and MiG-21 is the same name, belongs to a kind of mass-sold fighter, this kind of aircraft in the United States-led NATO countries, the number of equipment is too much, but this kind of aircraft has never been equipped by the United States Air Force, a purely export fighter, can sell thousands of units, it is definitely a miracle.
Later, the F-5 also received a nickname, called the Eagle of the Poor Country, which is cheap, easy to operate, and has good performance, which is suitable for poor countries to change outfits.
Northrop is also complacent about this, looking at the development of the times, other countries have begun to have the need to change the model, so they plan to upgrade this aircraft, used to use two turbojets, and now, with an F404 engine to replace, at the same time, replace with advanced avionics equipment, so make do with it, it will be upgraded from the second generation aircraft.
It can be seen that this kind of aircraft has a lot of similarities with the J-7, these two fighters are improved from the second-generation aircraft, and the performance is improved by replacing advanced avionics and engines, and even the engine is used in the same F404 engine, so Northrop is quite resistant to the J-7 CP project, which is clearly to disrupt the situation and is a competitive relationship.
But what does this have to do with the F-20?
Of course, because the F-5 fighter can't be sold, after they improved it, it was called F-5G, but it turned out that no one bought it, everyone went to buy the F-16, Northrop was very disappointed, and then they analyzed, no, this must be a bad name, they changed it to F-20.
This name change means that it has nothing to do with the previous aircraft, it is completely a third-generation aircraft, in the sequence of the United States Air Force, the later the serial number, the later the development age, their aircraft, later than the F-18, this is a brand new fighter!
At the same time, in order to fool more customers, they have also greatly improved their cockpit and become a sci-fi-looking fighter cockpit.
It is impossible for Qin Feng and the others to know these mysteries, they just listened to the introduction of the Israelis on the side, anyway, they know better.
They must have also inspected the cockpit of the F-20 and felt that the layout of the cockpit was very reasonable, and then, in the cockpit of their fighters, it was also improved, and this advanced cockpit with three downward-looking displays appeared.
Now, when they introduced Qin Feng to their cockpit, it was naturally their pride and superiority that stood out.
"The flat display in front of it doesn't seem to be unusual." Song Lao said.
The layman looks at the excitement, the insider looks at the doorway, if you want to talk about the system of the fighter, Song Lao knows best, he went up, and immediately found the difference.
The head-up monitor is still a new item in China, but it is not new for the people who visited this time, they have all seen it, because they are going to use it.
The head-up display, simply put, is a piece of glass in front of the cockpit, this glass is transparent, you can see the air situation in front of you, and at the same time, this glass can also project the text on the CRT below, so that the pilot can see the information needed clearly without looking down.
When the pilot looks ahead through the HU, he can easily merge the outside world with the HUD data. In this way, the pilot does not need to look down to check the display and data of the instrument, and always maintains a posture of looking up, reducing the delay and discomfort caused by ignoring the rapid changes in the external environment and the need to constantly adjust the focus of the eyes between the head down and the head.
Especially when fighting, the aura superimposed on it, the cannon hotline, is simply too easy to use, and without the flat display, it is absolutely impossible to achieve.
However, the current piece of glass is a little different.
It is no longer a flat glass, but a curved glass, and there are thin lines on this glass, what is this?
Although it is a model, I am afraid that this thing is ready-made.
"Yes, this kind of flat display is already a new generation of flat display, in the most professional words, it is called wide-angle holographic flat display, it uses the principle of optical diffraction, the previous are refractive flat display, and our flat display, there is no comparison at all." Ramour continued, don't look at him as a test pilot, he knows these devices clearly.