Publication Date:
2019-08-13
Description:
In 1994-96, Langley Research Center held a series of interactive workshops investigating highway-in-the-sky concepts, which enable precise flight path control. These workshops brought together government and industry display designers and pilots to discuss and fly various concepts in an iterative manner. The primary emphasis of the first workshops was the utility and usability of pathways and the pros and cons of various features available. The final workshops were focused on the specific applications to the eXternal Visibility System (XVS) of the NASA High-speed Research Program, which was concerned with replacement of the forward windows in a High-speed Civil Transport with electronic displays and high resolution video cameras to enable a "No-Droop" configuration. The primary concerns in the XVS application were the prevention of display clutter and obscuration of hazards, as the camera image was the primary means of traffic separation in clear visibility conditions. These concerns were not so prominent in the first workshops, which assumed a Synthetic Vision System application in which hazard locations are known and obscuration is handled easily. The resulting consensus concept has been used since in simulation and flight test activities of many Government programs. and other concepts have been influenced by the workshop discussions.
Keywords:
Aircraft Design, Testing and Performance
Type:
NASA/CP-2003-212164
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L-18270
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NAS 1.55:212164
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Avionic Pictorial Tunnel-/Pathway-/Highway-In-The-Sky Workshop #3; Mar 21, 1995 - Mar 22, 1995; Hampton, VA; United States|Avionic Pictorial Tunnel-/Pathway-/Highway-In-The-Sky Workshop #2; Sep 20, 1994 - Sep 22, 1994; Hampton, VA; United States|Avionic Pictorial Tunnel-/Pathway-/Highway-In-The-Sky Workshop #4; Sep 04, 1996 - Sep 05, 1996; Hampton, VA; United States|Avionic Pictorial Tunnel-/Pathway-/Highway-In-The-Sky Workshop #1; Apr 25, 1994 - Apr 27, 1994; Hampton, VA; United States
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application/pdf
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