Wide-angle Infinity Display Equipment (WIDE), the proprietary name for a
cross-cockpit collimated display (CCCD) wide-angle display system invented by the UK Rediffusion company at their factory at Crawley, near Gatwick, UK, now part of
Thales UK. The general design is now in common use in most full
flight simulators, made by Thales and several other companies worldwide.
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Collimated light
A collimated beam of light or other electromagnetic radiation has parallel rays, and therefore will spread minimally as it propagates. A perfectly collimated light beam, with no divergence, would not disperse with distance. However, diffractio ...
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