Boeing 727 HUD on eBay

[Efe Cem Elci]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Boein...5fPartsQ5fGear

[Geremy Britton]

... I'm sure Mike or Rodney may correct me here but i didn't know Boeing 727's had HUDs ...

[dnoize]

there have been many upgrades for the 727, even complete glass cockpit retrofits. I didnt know a hud was one of them...but it doesnt surprise me.

Its a relist...it didnt sell a few weeks ago. I'm temped but shipping to europe will be shocking im afraid.

Didnt a member ask for a hud a couple of weeks ago ?

Stef

[Michael Carter]

I thought it did sell. I was watching it and it ended at over $180US. Maybe a deadbeat bidder or he had more than one.

If I thought I could get it to work correctly I'd buy it myself.

Awesome upgrade for a 727. And yes they did retro-fit a few of the old birds with this. Not sure who flew them though. Fed-Ex maybe?

[dnoize]

here's some interesting reading about the 727 HUD's:

http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchi...0-%203866.html



Stef



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[Michael Carter]

Very interesting. Thanks!

One thing I saw that I didn't like was the exaggerated neck-craning it looks like one has to do to use this sytem.

I think the folding mount could have been made a bit lower to coincide with the pilots line of sight that is stated in the manual. It would still fold up behind the #4 eyebrow window.

[gokhotit]

getting it to work, should not be TO difficult. I read an article a while back on how to get the military style HUDs to work. Basically, it said to remove all the guts from behind the optics and put in a small screen displaying the proper HUD gauge. The same sort of setup could be done here, except with a small projector mounted in the overhead. After all, thats how this type of HUD works in real life, with a projector mounted above the pilot's head (if you look carefully in the picture in the above posted article you can see where the projector is), just fancier. If I had the money and a spare projector, I would try it.

Just my input.

[Michael Carter]

I noticed that the picture is reversed.