Cockpit Engineering
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Author(s): D. N. Jarrett
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 0754617513
Format: hardback
410pp
Price: £65.00
Review Date: 14 June 2005
Review: The word ‘cockpit’ originally meant the gaming area for cock fights. Today the designer aims to provide an area of calm, professional assurance, and safety for the aircrew. This involves many scientific and engineering disciplines as well as physiological and psychological pilot factors. There are chapters on: the human component, the need for aircrew protection, crewstation design, external vision, the display suite, display technology and head-down displays, head-up displays, helmet-mounted display systems, auditory displays, controls, emergency escape systems, clothing and headgear, and future crewstations.