If I'd known about this beforehand, I certainly would have avoided flying fighters and gone into something safer like accounting or lapidary.
Having a number of hours in three of the machines in the study, I guess I'm as good as dead.....
.....although at my age I'm not planning anything particularly long term anyway.
You know, except for a very small range-only radar for gun lead computations, the F-100 didn't even have a real 'radar'. Unlike the F-105 or F-4 which did.
The radar layout in the 727 had the real potential to 'fry' something fleshy. It had a radar dish right in front of the pilots that continuously rotated 360 degrees, with a cutout switch to terminate the radiation while pointed at the cockpit and another switch to restart it again when pointed down range.....
There was no indication to the pilots that the cutout was operating properly.
