Thales Visionix has won a contract to supply Scorpion helmet-mounted display (HMD) retrofit kits for Lockheed Martin F-16s of the US Air Force (USAF). The contract was awarded by the NATO Support and ...

(Tribune News Service) — Air Force helmets offer pilots more capabilities than ever — greater visibility, mounts for night-vision goggles and much more. But they also offer their share of challenges, ...

The ATARS helmet is designed to display on the visor data from the mission systems, not just simulations of partner and adversary aircraft. Credit: Red 6 Red 6 launched seven years ago with the idea ...

As a kid, I loved flipping through my dad's extensive library of books on the Army Air Corps in WWII. The images of confident young fighter pilots posing next to their sleek, aluminum aircraft ...

U.S. Air Force and Air National Guard units are fielding a helmet-mounted cueing system (HMCS) from Gentex Corp. of Carbondale, Pa., in A-10s, F-16s (Batch 30 and 32) and C-130 gunships flown by Air ...

Click to open image viewer. Lloyd W. “Fig” Newton graduated from Tennessee State University in 1966 and became an Air Force fighter pilot. He flew 269 combat missions, including 79 over North Vietnam.