Originally Posted by
stilton
Sincerely, this thread just gets more interesting.
Flattery will get you nowhere....
But I agree, post after post has either an interesting question or an interesting answer!
Was any consideration given to the fitting of a Head up display ?
With such a manually flown aircraft it would seem to be a natural for such an aid.
I don't think it was ever considered... which may be a tribute to the 'fit' of the SFENA 'clock-work' primary flight instruments of the time.... which was carried over to the next generation such as the A300 and A310.
AFAIK, even today, only very few commercial aircraft types have HUDs installed.
I realise the technology was in it's infancy at the gestation of the Concorde project...
Not really true, basic HUDs alreay existed well before Concorde flew.
....but was there ever a proposal or even testing of such a device ?
On Concorde? Not that I know.
SFENA (the firm I worked for) did work on a very limited HUD, basically just for runway alignment during take-off and roll-out, and IIRC some were installed on early A300s and A310s, but the idea never really seems to have caught on.
CJ