After spending some considerable time with a lapful of luminous instruments then certain possibilities could arise.
My father flew continuously from !941 until 1955 including some ten years on the Halifax where there was a full house of instruments in front of him. Whilst sitting in a cockpit one of the nearest soft body organs is the prostate. My father succumbed to that in 1997. I flew from 1960 until 1981 aircraft with either full or partial luminous instruments. I was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2002 but luckily it was at an early stage and was effectively cured.
One wonders whether the two are connected.
Should the two be connected then it was all the Air Forces fault. Ignorance of the effects at the time is no excuse as has been demonstrated by other occasions, Christmas Island, Gulf War Syndrome etc.. It could be a case for those ex pilots, flight engineers and navigators having a case to claim compensation for the stress and suffering from this disease.
Any litigation lawyers reading this?
