Post by rubl on Feb 1, 2021 13:32:39 GMT 7
Handling a touchscreen while moving at the speed of sound and doing fanciful manoeuvres.
"The problems of touchscreens in the Joint Strike Fighter
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is the most crammed-with-digital-tech fighter jet in history, the product of a multi-decade, trillion-dollar design process that has been famously messy.
But the jet is out there, and pilots are flying it. One big design shift with the F-35 is that it removes many of the small physical switches that crowded older jet cockpits, and replaces them with a big touchscreen. (That's a picture of it, above, which also shows the in-helmet visualization.)"
boingboing.net/2021/01/29/the-problems-of-touchscreens-in-the-joint-strike-fighter.html
"The problems of touchscreens in the Joint Strike Fighter
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is the most crammed-with-digital-tech fighter jet in history, the product of a multi-decade, trillion-dollar design process that has been famously messy.
But the jet is out there, and pilots are flying it. One big design shift with the F-35 is that it removes many of the small physical switches that crowded older jet cockpits, and replaces them with a big touchscreen. (That's a picture of it, above, which also shows the in-helmet visualization.)"
boingboing.net/2021/01/29/the-problems-of-touchscreens-in-the-joint-strike-fighter.html
