(Luft) Lockheed Martin F-35 - Lightning II

[Quintus Fabius]

Ein kurzer Film über den speziellen Helm welchen F-35 Piloten verwenden:

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Und noch was zu besagtem Helm:

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If there is one symbol for the F-35 controversy, it is the $400,000-plus pilot’s helmet.

The controversial helmet is basically a navigation system. When the pilot is looking straight and to the sides, he/she sees all of the weapons employment information in the helmet visor. The helmet has been described as a “workspace.”

Major Andreotta held up the helmet. “All the information that the jet brings into the aircraft is available to me in this helmet and that is why it is really more than a helmet. It’s actually an integral part of the F-35 system. It’s designed to provide pilots with 360-degree situational awareness in any kind of weather, day or night."

He described some of the intricacies.

“Up here at the top portion of it, this is the central computer of the helmet,” he said. “This is where all the information is processed and where it decides what it’s going to display to me.

"Out here, this visor, is what we call the display visor. So, it is where all the information is being projected into. These camera are really important. One is a camera that looks out. It also has my night vision camera. So gone are the days of me actually having to put night vision on, it’s now a flip of a switch," Andreotta said.

Grazier saved his harshest criticism for the helmet.

He said the way the plane is designed, the pilot sits very low in the cockpit so has limited visibility: "We get the added benefit of paying an extra half-million dollars or so on top of that for the complex helmet design to overcome something that they could have done with just simple engineering. ... It’s one more thing, one more piece inside this aircraft that can fail down the road.”