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Maybe the problem is making the canopy transparent to the right wavelengths. You’d need to avoid distortion in a different part of the spectrum than the parts the pilots see with their eyes/through visors and HMDs, while also continuing to worry about EM coatings, bird strikes, scratches, etc. If you made a “bifocal” canopy, then maybe you’d have to worry about temperature expansion/contraction & strength in whole new ways. Even a small window would also potentially work against your own thermal signature, if the interior cockpit temp was higher than the friction-heated temp of its surroundings. I would think that wouldn’t be the case when supercruising, but have no clue about the surface temp of a canopy of an aircraft cruising/loitering normally.And, the warmer cockpit environment is probably crappy for a sensor that may want to be cold as possible. Do modern IRSTs still like to chilled?
Maybe the problem is making the canopy transparent to the right wavelengths.
You’d need to avoid distortion in a different part of the spectrum than the parts the pilots see with their eyes/through visors and HMDs, while also continuing to worry about EM coatings, bird strikes, scratches, etc. If you made a “bifocal” canopy, then maybe you’d have to worry about temperature expansion/contraction & strength in whole new ways.
Even a small window would also potentially work against your own thermal signature, if the interior cockpit temp was higher than the friction-heated temp of its surroundings. I would think that wouldn’t be the case when supercruising, but have no clue about the surface temp of a canopy of an aircraft cruising/loitering normally.
And, the warmer cockpit environment is probably crappy for a sensor that may want to be cold as possible. Do modern IRSTs still like to chilled?
