It sucks going on helmet and not having that.” “At least in the Herk the David Clark or Bose noise cancelling headsets make a big difference. “What would be really nice is noise canceling,” the C-130 “Hercules” engine noise, the navigator said.

There are different activation settings pilots can choose, but Lee demonstrated using a short clench, followed by a long clench, to activate the pair of lights on his helmet. Unlike those past ideas, the next-gen helmet is activated by a button which gets pressed by the pilot’s jaw muscles when he or she clenches their jaw. Some pilots tried strapping lights to their fingers, or wearing tongue-activated lights on their oxygen masks, but Lee found those solutions clunky or unappealing. In the past, pilots brought flashlights to read flight documents, but that meant they had to take a hand off their flight controls to hold the flashlight. Those lights help with reading maps or other documents inside the cockpit, but that’s not the cool part. Lee said his favorite feature of the new helmet is a pair of lights mounted to its sides. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Ryan Conroy)Ĭonvenience, comfort and mission preparedness go hand-in-hand and all the way down in the NGFWH.

15, 2014, at Aviano Air Base, Italy (U.S. Matthew Alexander, 555th Fighter Squadron pilot, tests the seal on his lightweight HGU-55/P Combat Edge pilot helmet, Oct.

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