Glass Cockpit.(Brief Article)

The Space Shuttle Atlantis has been equipped with flat display technology. The Boeing- and Honeywell-designed Multifunction Electronics Display Subsystem (MEDS) uses an active matrix liquid crystal (AMLCD) display from Philips Flat Display System (FDS). The MEDS is known as a glass cockpit.

NASA expects to replace the tradition. al CRT displays and numerous mechanical gauges within all of its space shuttle cockpits with Philips FDS' more advanced ...

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