melmothtw, I really wasn't having a dig.
F-16 brought with it a lot of new thinking - a reclined (30-degree) seat to help
g-tolerance, a side-stick controller, and that one-piece canopy (for which the HUD, as mentioned, took the pain).
It's not just the canopy which hasn't been emulated. The Israelis, for example, when designing the abortive Lavi, were already flying -16s but decided against a side-stick as they felt it was a liability if the pilot got injured.
But how do you give a pilot a superlative view? Why, you give him a magic helmet...
