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Old 22nd Aug 2008, 19:42
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Maxbert
 
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Hmmmm.... My father used to be a hobbyist holographer twenty-plus years ago. He started out with a 5mW HeNe laser, at the time a tube slightly thicker than a kitchen paper tube roll, about three times as long. He then had a 25 mW HeNe laser which, as the 5 mW one, was in no way portable as connected to a mains PSU. This thing sat on his sand table encased in a rectangular aluminium housing, about 1.5 metres long.

I digress- How is it possible to shine a laser into an aircraft cockpit from below

How is it possible to accurately aim at the eyes of a pilot, given the width of a laser beam, the movement of the aircraft and, again, the fact that your laser wielder is surely on the ground, whereas the aircraft is in the air

Finally, a lot of cockpit glass I have seen is decidedly tinted (often veering towards the green?)- Whilst I appreciate there are many different wavelengths of coherent and non-coherent light, does this anti glare tinting (and anti-cosmic ray???) have no dissipating effect?

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