MIflyer
Captain
I'm thinking really big LEDs.
What's wrong with this picture?
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Yep, but you usually end up with headache.
"Did we give up when the Germans bomb Pearl Harbor?"
special ed
2nd Lieutenant
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Not yet.
GrauGeist
Generalfeldmarschall zur Luftschiff Abteilung
They didn't have LEDs back then, those were bigass Nixie Tubes...
MIflyer
Captain
They did not have Nixie tubes back then, either. Probably 100 watt light bulbs. The recent Atom Bomb movie that featured a radio with the Nixie tubes sitting atop it got that wrong. By the way, I have had that same model of radio, a BC-348, with a Nixie tube display sitting atop it in my living room for several years now. Don't know how the movie people stole the idea. At least the BC-348 was sort of right; they were used in heavy bombers and transports in WW2.
GrauGeist
Generalfeldmarschall zur Luftschiff Abteilung
Actually, the Nixie tube technology and rights were purchased in the 1950's by Burroughs Corp. from Haydu Laboratories, who invented and patented the digital display tube in the 1930's.
They did exist before and during WWII, the Haydu brothers simply didn't have the ability to mass produce them.
They did exist before and during WWII, the Haydu brothers simply didn't have the ability to mass produce them.
Barrett
Senior Airman
Some people are paid WAY too much.
But we knew that...
But we knew that...
![](data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,<svg height="640px" width="415px" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1"/>)
![](data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,<svg height="500px" width="313px" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1"/>)
![](data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,<svg height="449px" width="300px" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1"/>)
WTF?
GrauGeist
Generalfeldmarschall zur Luftschiff Abteilung
The only American bombers Hauptman Johnen claimed were three B-25s...
![](data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,<svg height="16px" width="16px" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1"/>)