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I just had a thought about a plane design I've been thinking about. It's all in my head, most likely the only place it'll come to life is in my stories, but I had a thought about the canopy design, and wanted to make sure it works.

The thought was to have a three or four slab window, somewhat similar to that on the F-117. Problem is, the original concept wouldn't have a back window, though that could be fixed. Thinking about how to redesign it, I remembered I thought I'd read something about a system designed for the F-35 that "provided 360 degree vision", IIRC. Not sure how this would work, if it's real. I don't always believe what I read.

An evolved form would utilize a neurolink to plug you in, so a window isn't even nessacary, really. Just for emergencies, though if you loose the computers, you've lost enough capability that you probably wouldn't make it out of the fight if you had to revert to manual control. But, with the first versions having conventional manual controls, you'd be using your eyes as a primary input device.

I'm just checking to see if I should put in a back window, or would such an avionics system work?

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Japanese animation in both Gundam and Ginga Eun Densetsu/Legend of Glactic Heroes have piloted vehicles where they were just displays surrounding the pilot providing pretty much 360 x 360 view, so you would have very few blindspots all around you other than your piloting equipment and instrumentation. However, as you mentioned, they also portray the frustration and panic that occurs as you take damage, watching fields of view disappear as systems fail.

Perhaps you could devise a helmet-mounted system that provides an image display for 360 x 360 view no matter how you turn your head, and then a clear canopy can provide the back-up if systems fail?

Why is it the biggest fools of most April Fools' jokes are the implementers?

Sounds like what I was thinking of, I was wanting to get the opinions of some of the fighter jocks though.

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