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Old 11th Dec 2018, 07:43
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I think the term "Black Hole Illusion" always was as per Centaurus's and NZFK's description, (where it refers to the lack of features of the surrounding environment, not of the runway itself).

see:

http://www.academia.edu/1650553/Visual_misperception_in_aviation_Glide_path_performance_in_a _black_hole_environment

https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a462899.pdf

References in those indicate the illusion that results in thinking you are higher than you actually are was described from at least the early 1950s and that the actual term "black hole illusion" seems to start being used to describe it in the 1970s.
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