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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2003
Filed:
Jul. 02, 2001
Thomas K. McDonald, Overland Park, KS (US);
Gary R. Hannah, Shawnee, KS (US);
BE Intellectual Property, Inc., Welllington, FL (US);
Abstract
An aircraft crew vision mask ( ) is provided which is especially designed to be used during emergency flight conditions where smoke is present in the cockpit. Preferably, the mask ( ) includes a transparent lens ( ) supported by a peripheral face seal ( ), and has a breathable gas mask ( ). In order to provide important aircraft flight information to the wearer ( ), the mask ( ) is equipped with a display device such as a retinal scanning display device ( ) having an output ( ). The device ( ) is operably coupled to an aircraft information input ( ) which supplies digital information such as airspeed, attitude, altitude, heading, vertical speed, navigation information, video inputs or flight manual information to the device ( ). A smoke condition sensor ( ) and manual input control ( ) serve to initiate operation of the device ( ) with selective on/off and channel select control capability.