Cracking the ‘da Vinci’ code: Virtual reality accelerates helicopter aviator training
The Air Force plans to wait to try out another small group of candidates until the just-graduated class progresses through the formal training units to learn how to fly the UN-1N Huey, HH-60G Pave Hawk and CV-22 Osprey. That will allow the Air Force to gather feedback on how well these students did after learning through virtual reality.
In the meantime, the Air Force will add VR systems to the normal helicopter training syllabus to give students more chances to rehearse and repeat instructions and training flights.
Leonardo da Vinci is believed to be the first to dream up the concept of an aircraft that used a rotary device to lift vertically. His “Helical Air Screw” drawing outlining the basic concepts was made in 1493 — about 450 years before the first true helicopter would take off.
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