Hughes Helicopters AH-64A Electroluminescent Lighting

Favorable experience with electroluminescent formation lights and natural compatibility with night vision devices led to Electroluminescent Light as a consideration for secondary cockpit illumination. Electroluminescence provides a cool, flat, dependable, low-level light source. The brightness is uniform overall and it casts no shadows. The most efficient light output is blue-. green. This is also the color that is most effective with night vision goggles, cathode ray tubes and other night vision aids. This equipment and the relationship to cockpit lighting and night vision will be examined. It meets or exceeds applicable military standards. This new application offers an opportunity to extend the technology into an area certain to be used heavily in- the future.