Originally Posted by
Foghorn Leghorn
The wearable tech has been with us for years old fruit. It’s nothing new and it’s still not progressed beyond an embryonic stage. It won’t be in our life time. Sounds like Wiggy’s Astra rhetoric has got to you!
As for a single seat pilot that conducts the roles of a…..pilot and the traditional role of a WSO - it’s called a pilot
Agree with FL - wearables and also voice control have been around for literally decades, and they're better than they used to be, but how often does Alexa screw up? Once a day maybe? Twice? And that's when you're asking it to do something about 5 times a day, it has cloud connectivity and low background noise.
Same with wearables for control - as soon as you put them in to a stressed environment, the glossy brochure starts to look less good. Not impossible, but less good to the point where you may as well stay with something physical. I'd be the first to say that might need to be an Xbox controller these days though!
As for Aeralis, neat idea 30 years ago. Today, as BV has said, it's stretching a little to believe they'd ever recoup R&D on it. Best case for them, some kind of national manufacturing thing in the UK gets them T2 replacement in 2040 and they sell UK MOD 12 jets?