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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>Subject:</span></b><span class=apple-converted-space><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> </span></span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>F-35
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Eras Demi ITC","sans-serif";
color:black'>The helmet used with the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) allows
pilots to see through their aircraft. This is how the next generation
of Royal Air Force fighter pilots will look: o</span><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-family:"Eras Demi ITC","sans-serif";color:black'>nly the neck and
shoulders prove there’s a human being in there somewhere.</span><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-family:"Eras Demi ITC","sans-serif";color:blue'> <span
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style='font-family:"Eras Demi ITC","sans-serif";color:black'>And with
piercing green eyes staring out from behind the visor, it's no surprise that
the helmet has been compared to Arnold Schwarzenegger's killer robot in The
Terminator. Pilots flying the F-35 will have an astonishing array of
technology encasing their heads—enabling them to see right through their
own aircraft fuselage to the ground below.</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Eras Demi ITC","sans-serif";
color:black'>A series of cameras on the outside of the stealth warplane feed
high-resolution images into the helmet, including infra-red images at night,
which are then projected on to the inside of the pilot's visor. <span
class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-family:"Eras Demi ITC","sans-serif";color:black'>Special sensors
inside the cockpit track the movement of the helmet, so that when the pilot
turns his head his view of the skies or ground outside changes accordingly. <span
class=apple-converted-space> </span>When he looks down, he sees not his
own feet on the cockpit floor but the ground below, slipping past at hundreds
of miles per hour. <span class=apple-converted-space> </span>On-board
computers also feed in essential flight and combat data on to the display, as
well as superimposing target symbols to locate enemy and friendly aircraft or
ground targets, even if they are too far away to see with the naked eye.</span><span
style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black'>The supersonic JSF is being developed jointly with the<span
class=apple-converted-space> </span> U.S.<span
class=apple-converted-space> </span>and is to replace the Harrier jump
jet. <span class=apple-converted-space> </span> Britain<span
class=apple-converted-space> </span>is to buy 150 aircraft at around
£10 billion, or £66 million each. [ Canada<span
class=apple-converted-space> </span>is also cooperating in JSF development
but no decision has been made about acquisition.]</span><span
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Eras Demi ITC","sans-serif";
color:black'>Prototypes of the helmet were used in flight by<span
class=apple-converted-space> </span> U.S.<span
class=apple-converted-space> </span>pilots earlier this year and are now
being assessed by engineers at Boscombe Down in Wiltshire. A Ministry
of Defence spokesman said: “The computerised symbology will be
displayed directly on to the pilot's visor, providing the pilot with cues for
flying, navigating and fighting the aircraft. It even will superimpose
infra-red imagery on to the visor to allow the pilot to look through the
cockpit floor at night and see the world below—like something out of
Terminator.â€</span><span class=apple-converted-space><span lang=EN-GB
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