[Milsurplus] Glow in the Dark!

Paul Galpin galpinp at absamail.co.za
Tue Jan 11 14:35:42 EST 2005


Clock dial? Focussed on a sleeper's face?
Ah, come on..........

But seriously, though, when I was an apprentice at Marconi's in England
around 1962, we had supplied the Marconi Doppler Navigator to the French for
their Mirages. All of a sudden, all the indicators and dials were taken out
of service and returned to have the luminous paint removed. It seems that
some-one had measured the radiation from _all_ the cockpit instruments and
come up with a horribly large number!
And of course, in a fighter cockpit everything is _very_ near to you.

Paul Galpin
(ZR6ACV)



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