NASA Contribution: Glass Cockpits

Ever see an old airplane cockpit and how it was chock-full of dials and gauges and things that spun around? During the 1970s and 1980s, NASA created and tested the concept of an advanced cockpit configuration that replaced those dials and gauges with flat panel digital displays. The digital displays presented information more efficiently and provided the flight crew with a more integrated, easily understood picture of the vehicle situation. Glass cockpits are in use everywhere today on commercial, military and general aviation aircraft.

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