Aircraft vision augmentation system with adjustable external mirror and cockpit mirror

摘要

An array of plane mirrors allows forward view of space volumes normally obscured by craft structure without the use of forward facing transparencies. In submerged cockpit aerospace craft, such a system may utilize a deployable upper mirror to reflect such space volumes onto a control mirror for the pilot's use in takeoff and landing operations, allowing the pilot the same visual cues as would be available through a forward facing transparency in front of an apaprent eye position external to the cockpit.