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The Heads Up Display (HUDS)

Posted on September 14, 2011 by Justin • 2 Comments

Remember Top Gun? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E-fQ57U8qY I’ve always been curious how those displays worked. Were they splashed across the windshield? If so, what projected the image up there and where was the projector located? How did it work? Well, the answer was finally presented to me in a post Michael Yon did on air crews in Afghanistan… … Continue reading →

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