DOW-UAP-D144, AAWSAP DIRD, Cockpits in the Era of Breakthrough Flight, November 2010
Department of War · 11/1/10 · Las Vegas, Nevada · Document
DOW-UAP-D144, AAWSAP DIRD, Cockpits in the Era of Breakthrough Flight, November 2010 is indexed as a Department of War record with incident date 11/1/10 and location Las Vegas, Nevada. This document is a Defense Intelligence Reference Document (DIRD), a technical reference format used by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) to capture baseline knowledge on a specific topic for later analytic use. DIRDs are best understood as reference and synthesis products rather than as original research. It is one of 38 DIRDs produced under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program (AAWSAP) between 2009 and 2011. Because AAWSAP s scope permitted a broad range of supporting topics, not every DIRD in the series directly concerns aerospace systems or future threat assessment. The following summary reflects the DIRD s scope and framing at the time of writing and should not be read as implying current validation of the concepts discussed. This DIRD examines how cockpit design might change if future aerospace vehicles were ever to achieve major propulsion breakthroughs such as control over gravity and inertia, propellantless flight, or faster-than-light travel. The report does not describe an existing or emerging vehicle class. Instead, it asks what such hypothetical capabilities would mean for piloting, displays, controls, and human factors, and it argues that the biggest design challenges would come from full six-degree-of-freedom motion, operation across multiple flight regimes from near-surface flight to orbit and deep space, and the possible separation between the craft s actual motion and the crew s internal physical sensations. It combines those assumptions with established human-machine-interface principles and with maturing inputs such as gesture, voice, and brain-machine control to outline a provisional cockpit centered on intuitive displays, stress-tolerant physical controls, and a virtual surround display. Redactions have been made to protect the identity of eyewitnesses, the location of government facilities, or potentially sensitive information about military sites not related to UAP. No redactions have been made to any files released under President Trump's directive concerning information about the nature or existence of any encounter reported as a UAP or related phenomena.
Notable / anomalous element
- Object detection and trajectory determination. (native PDF text, page 44)
- Alarms and Responses Traditionally, physical enunciator panels combined with audible alarms and blinking lights were used to highlight malfunctions. (native PDF text, page 28)
- In researching future propulsion breakthroughs, the utility of sensing and affecting such phenomena is pertinent. (native PDF text, page 21)
- DEVICES TO CONVEY IN FORMATION Observation and interpretation of displays is always secondary to the primary task of actually operating the system. (native PDF text, page 28)
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- UNCLASSIFIED//F8R 8FFIOIAL YSE BHLY Cockpits in the Era of Breakthrough Flight The Defense Intelligence Reference Document provides non-substantive but authoritative reference information related to intelli ence to ics or methodolo ies. (native PDF text, page 2)
- This product is one in a series of advanced technology reports produced in FY 2009 under the Defense Intelligence Agency, Defense Warning Office's Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications AAWSA Pro ram. (native PDF text, page 2)
- Comments or questions pertaining to this document should be addressed to,. -_,.M_E, Person AAP Person 1 AWSA Program Manager, Defense Intelligence Agency, ATTN: JUIAF DI/DWO-3,1 g, as mg on, DC 20340-5100. (native PDF text, page 2)
- 1 march of progress: revolutionary propulsion physics. (native PDF text, page 3)
- 2 Chapter 2: Human-Machine Interface Lessons. (native PDF text, page 3)
- 23 devices for receiving pilot commands. (native PDF text, page 3)
- 28 Chapter 3: Provisional Cockpit for Breakthrough Flight. (native PDF text, page 3)
- Necessary Distinction Between External & Internal Force Environments. (native PDF text, page 4)
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