Paul Davison, manager of the Faraday Test Centre, BAE Systems

About this episode

Paul Davison discusses the testing and simulation facilities at BAE Systems' Faraday Test Centre.

In this episode of the Aerospace Testing International podcast Paul Davison, manager of BAE System's Faraday Test Centre in Rochester, UK talks to Benedict Evans about the testing and simulation facilities at the Centre. A diverse range of products goes through the laboratories at Rochester: flight sticks, helmets, defibrillators, and even microwaves. But BAE Systems Rochester is best known for the several key advances in the helmet-mounted displays (HMD) and the heads-up-display (HUD) techn...

People in this episode

Host: Benedict Evans

Guest: Paul Davison

Topics covered

• testing
• simulation
• aviation technology
• helmet-mounted displays
• heads-up display
• BAE Systems
• Faraday Test Centre

Keywords

• BAE Systems
• Faraday Test Centre
• testing facilities
• simulation
• helmet-mounted displays
• heads-up display
• aviation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: BAE Systems

Places: Rochester, UK

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