Similarly, the cockpit of the F-22 Raptor offers a trio of glass displays. "Those displays represent a significant step toward the F-35 cockpit's spare ambience and a departure from its steam-gauge predecessors," notes Jon Beesley, the chief test pilot for the F-35. Beesley should know. As a veteran of advanced aircraft development programs, he served as a US Air Force test pilot on the F-117 stealth fighter and as a General Dynamics test pilot for the YF-22. Beesley was the fourth pilot to fly the YF-22 and second pilot to fly the F-22. "The F-22 prototype, the YF-22, had finger-on-glass controls as well," Beesley notes. "We learned a lot from the experience with this technology on the prototype, which was not implemented in the production F-22."

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