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This Defense Intelligence Reference Document from the Defense Intelligence Agency, dated 1 November 2010, is one of a series of advanced technology reports produced in FY 2009 under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program. It proposes a provisional cockpit design for craft driven by speculative breakthrough propulsion, such as control of gravity and inertia and faster-than-light travel. It draws mainly on the book Frontiers of Propulsion Science and on human-machine interface research.
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UNCLASSIFIED/ ,'l"e" Cl"l"!e1,it tl!!L e11t I Figure 13. Provisional Breakthrough-Era Cockpit. The spherical zone around the cockpit center represents the virtual surround display onto which images of the environment outside the vehicle are displayed. Keeping with lessons of prior human interfaces, a minimal set of physical displays are also provided, with the most important ones located deliberately in the "tunnel vision" zone in front of the pilot. [Graphic: A. Szames with background image through M. Cherfi] Manual With Safe Assist To prevent the pilot from inadvertently flying into a hazardous situation, this mode augments the manual flight controls by taking over to prevent collisions or to prevent entry into hazardous zones (e.g., dangerous radiation or gravitational fields too strong to escape). When the system must take over, it would be accompanied by force- feedback into the joysticks and obvious indications on the display. 33 UNCLASSIFIED//Flilll. lilFFUil,t.k l.lli&i lil'lk>/
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