Rear-Projection Helps New Avionics Displays Fit into Old Cockpits
A plane’s cockpit is a tight space, full of displays that are rectangular, square, circular, trapezoidal or something else, all of which convey vital information to the pilot. Because most displays in use today are based on older technology, there is a push to replace them with something newer so that the relatively small avionics market can take advantage of the latest technology and benefit from its cost structure. But the cost of tooling up to make such specialized shapes would be
Photonics Spectra, December 2007