[Milsurplus] Glow in the Dark!
Joe Foley
redmenaced at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 11 21:00:19 EST 2005
--- Paul Galpin <galpinp at absamail.co.za> wrote:
> 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.
+++++++
Check the speedometer on a 1950's 2-1/2 ton GMC 6X6
Army truck sometime.
Joe
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