9 Jul
2004
9 Jul
'04
7:27 a.m.
On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Joe R. wrote:
^^^^
Forward Looking Infra Red, or sometimes Forward Looking Infrared Radar
(not the correct term obviously)
Those wierd black-and-white negative images you see from police
helicopters chasing guys running thru neighborhoods at night - the warmer
something is, the 'brighter' it appears on the FLIR monitor.
Also seen in fighter plane gun-camera shots of us blowing up things out
in the middle of various Middle Eastern Deserts.
Cheers
John
Interesting. Spar is probably the largest
Aerospace company in Canada.
They made the robotic arm for the space schuttle and they made FLIRs for
What in tarnations is a FLIR?