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Old 10-23-2009, 07:19 PM
Tudorp15 Tudorp15 is offline
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Yep.. the B-52 also has those blast shields.. Also.. I will not say that I have one , because of course they would be US Government property, and maybe even "Classified".. But They had Flash blindness kits in the pilot and co-pilot seat kits. They are a plastic case, with a pair of the coolest black with gold lenzes goggles. Also in the kit is a sealed eye patch. The concept is while bombing with nukes, they were to place the eye patch over one eye, then the goggles. The goggles, you can actually look strait into the sun with. WHile bombing low level runs, the goggles would protect your eyes from the nuke flash. The eye patch was a secondary procaution in case the goggles did not work like they should. In that case, you can remove the goggles and the eye patch and at least have one eye to fly home with.. I still have "memories" of one of those kits...
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