Originally Posted by
maddogmax
I never knew the Air Force had F-18's
Once they get the autopilot figured out and can do it without having to step outside in the weather.
Originally Posted by Scientific American 25 Nov 2011
Pilot training is currently one of the biggest bottlenecks in deploying these new, deadly weapons.
So Air Force researchers were delighted recently to learn that they could cut training time in half by delivering a mild electrical current (two milliamperes of direct current for 30 minutes) to pilot's brains during training sessions on video simulators. The current is delivered through EEG (electroencephalographic) electrodes placed on the scalp. Biomedical engineer Andy McKinley and colleagues at the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright–Patterson Air Force Base, reported their finding on this so-called transcranial direct current stimulation (TDCS) here at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting on November 13.
With the success of the Air Force's research, wonder when Delta's going to send us a pair of electrodes, a nine volt battery and cut the pay for training in half?