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Re: Mosquito seat armour markings

Posted by Richard Allnutt on Tue Mar 19, 2002 02:46:35 PM

In reply top Re: Mosquito seat armour markings posted by Dave Sutton on Tue Mar 19, 2002 09:05:59 AM

: I seem to remember watching a Lancaster video where they r
: eferred to those yellow circles as "gas detector patches"
: -they change colour when exposed to poison gas. Why they
: need a gas patch in a Lanc is anyones guess! You can't al
: ways trust what they say in these videos though.


This is just a supposition, but perhaps if they were gas detectors, it was for carbon manoxide. I have never heard of this mind you, but it seems the most practical thing to detect, if indeed they were gas detectors. As we all know, there were a number of aircraft which suffered from carbon monoxide poisoning issues (two which spring to mind are the corsair and typhoon).

Cheers,
Richard

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