Re: generational markers (was "Disney's Man In Space")

From: Steve at fivetrees (steve_at_NOSPAMTAfivetrees.com)
Date: 06/01/04 

Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 13:15:46 +0100

"OM" <om@our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_research_facility.org> wrote
in message news:965ob0hk7qpb48aji0s57dilkn388s7o5k@4ax.com...
>
> ...So it *was* perspex, then? I'd heard some of Gerry Anderson's
> Supermarionation team referring to perspex as the same stuff the Limey
> Air Farce used for cockpit windows on one occasion, but I never did
> find any online docs to point to this as fact.

The use of perspex in cockpit canopies indirectly led to the science of
intraocular lens implantation, which has since saved the sight of millions
of cataract sufferers. More data at:
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/discover/archive_features/363.shtml etc

Steve
(a Limey who's quite proud of The Few)
http://www.fivetrees.com

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