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Old 22nd Sep 2018, 15:23
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diginagain
 
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Originally Posted by Timelord
Actually, these things were everywhere, aircrew used them for knee pads, controllers on radar screens, ops on tote boards and every ops desk was covered in Perspex so China graph notes, scribbles and doodles were all over them. And if you happened to need to note a phone number in the bar one evening........
Oddly enough, they even appeared in Army aviation too, although the JAFOs of my era - for the same reasons as BEagle - preferred Lumocolours.
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