Flight assessment of 3 flat panel display technologies for CRT replacement

Author

Hitt, Ellis F. ; Rea, Fred G. ; Stauffer, Tim

fYear

1993

Firstpage

475

Lastpage

480

Abstract

Replacement of The ASQ-151, ASQ-175, and ASQ-184 monochrome cathode ray tube displays, used in the B-52 and B-1B, with flat panel displays will provide significant improvements in the reliability and maintainability of the display systems while improving the quality of the information viewed by the crew using these displays. This paper presents the process followed by USAF and Battelle (under the AIR Force Material Command´s Design Engineering Program) to select the flat panel display technology to be fully developed during a preproduction prototype phase. Candidate flat panel display technologies evaluated included a color active matrix liquid crystal display, AC gas plasma panel display, and thin film electroluminescent display

Keywords

aircraft instrumentation; electroluminescent displays; flat panel displays; gas-discharge displays; liquid crystal displays; AC gas plasma panel display; B-1B; B-52; Battelle; USAF; avionics; color active matrix liquid crystal display; flat panel display; flight assessment; maintainability; reliability; thin film electroluminescent display; Active matrix liquid crystal displays; Active matrix technology; Cathode ray tubes; Crystalline materials; Design engineering; Flat panel displays; Liquid crystal displays; Maintenance; Plasma displays; Prototypes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Avionics Systems Conference, 1993. 12th DASC., AIAA/IEEE

Conference_Location

Fort Worth, TX

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1343-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DASC.1993.283504

Filename

283504