Ripline, thanks for that. Hopefully some may take comfort that their exposure to their instruments for all those years may equate to sunbathing through the seventies. Interesting though that as we "expand" our knowledge and expose the dangers of the past, we also limit our ability to take risk and accept the penalties that come with that. Though I suspect that radium doesn't feature in the modern cockpit. I'm sure that many would never trade their flying experiences, whenever it happened, for the worry of radiation from aircraft instruments, and few, would doubt their duty to report when their country needed them. Whatever your experience sir, your input has certainly opened this old ground pounders eyes to things I had never been made aware of during my service. Welcome to PPRUNES finest thread.
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