How F-35A fighter pilots are harnessing high-tech 'see-through' helmets
The F-35 Gen III Helmet Mounted Display System, made by Rockwell Collins, lets pilots “see-through” their fifth-generation fighter jets. Like the new F-35A Lightning II, the helmet takes technology to an entirely new level and introduces a host of new capabilities.
Hill Air Force Base in Utah is home to the U.S. Air Force’s first operational F-35A squadron. While inside the area where pilots don their state-of-the art gear before getting in the cockpit of an F-35A, Maj. Jayson “Vato” Rickard of the 419th Fighter Wing gave me an inside look at the helmet from a fighter pilot's perspective.
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