In article <sqocbch74ua1ttkle540rc0qe3r9rfaltg@4ax.com>, not my real pseudonym
says...
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>On 28 Feb 2017 20:30:09 -0800, Miloch <Miloch_member@newsguy.com>
>wrote:
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>>more at
>>http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/7975/this-is-what-usaf-bomber-pilots-would-wear-during-a-nuclear-apocalypse
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>>During a nuclear exchange, as B-52H and B-2A pilots make their way to and from
>>their targets, flashes from nuclear detonations would have the ability to
>>temporarily blind them, making flying their aircraft impossible. This
>>intermittent blindness could last two minutes during the day, or up to ten
>>minutes at night. Different countermeasures were developed during the Cold War
>>to counter this physiological reality. These included constructing thermal
>>curtains to cover the B-52's windows, along with a television camera and FLIR
>>system that, along with the BUFF's instruments, allow pilots to continue on
>>their mission without external visibility. Polarized Lead Zirconium Titanate
>>(PLZT, pronounced "plizzit") flash blindness goggles are also used for the same
>>purpose, and they look as otherworldly as can be.
>>
>>PLZT goggles attach to the pilot's helmet and are interfaced with a igloo
>>cooler-like control and power supply unit (see the whole system here). The
>>system works to detect dramatic and fast changes in light. When that a happens,
>>a circuit is broken. This triggers the goggles to quickly turn opaque. Once the
>>light has returned to normal the goggles will turn translucent again.
>>Flightgear.dk does a great job at describing this unique and somewhat obscure
>>system and its genesis in great detail:
>>
>>more at
>>http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/7975/this-is-what-usaf-bomber-pilots-would-wear-during-a-nuclear-apocalypse
>
>Yeesh. All it needs is the 'clank!' as he whacks it into the bulkhead
>of the Millennium Falcon...
Of course the atomic flash will prolly set fire to his Van Heusen cotton shirt
but that's another story.
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