navigation lights?

("Cub Driver" wrote)
No. Don't-bump-my-ass lights ;-)

How do you say that in Japanese?


Torso! Torso! Torso!


Montblacksheep

Just a question for the military types out there, don't they
have low intensity formation lights to use that cannot be
seen from the ground?



"Cub Driver" usenet AT danford DOT net wrote in message
...
|
| Okay, let me restate the question. It is April 1942. Five
Japanese
| fighter aircraft are flying in formation to attack an
enemy airfield
| at dawn. Their lights are on so they can follow the leader
and not
| bump into one another. Before rolling in to attack, they
switch off
| the lights.
|
| (If it matters, the fighters do not have air-to-air radio
| communication. The lights serve that purpose as well.)
|
| Would you call those "navigation lights"?
|
| Thanks!
|
|
| -- all the best, Dan Ford
|
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Just a question for the military types out there, don't they
have low intensity formation lights to use that cannot be
seen from the ground?

Don't some aircraft even have "lights" that can only be seen with
night-vision goggles?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 03:51:18 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:

Just a question for the military types out there, don't they
have low intensity formation lights to use that cannot be
seen from the ground?

Don't some aircraft even have "lights" that can only be seen with
night-vision goggles?

Not in 1942.


-- all the best, Dan Ford

email: usenet AT danford DOT net

Warbird's Forum: www.warbirdforum.com
Piper Cub Forum: www.pipercubforum.com
In Search of Lost Time: www.readingproust.com

Just a question for the military types out there, don't they
have low intensity formation lights to use that cannot be
seen from the ground?

Don't some aircraft even have "lights" that can only be seen with
night-vision goggles?

Not in 1942.

The question was "Don't they?" not "Didn't they?"...

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Cub Driver" usenet AT danford DOT net wrote in message
...

Okay, let me restate the question. It is April 1942. Five Japanese
fighter aircraft are flying in formation to attack an enemy airfield
at dawn. [...]

I think you want rec.aviation.military.

I think they would be called Anit-Collision lights as well as nav
lights, but i could be wrong, Correct me if i am.

Wrong, they are used to show the position of the airplane in
reference to the viewer. An anti-collision light does not
show the position of the airplane, but it is designed to
attract attention.



"StuartyA330" wrote in message
oups.com...
|I think they would be called Anit-Collision lights as well
as nav
| lights, but i could be wrong, Correct me if i am.
|

On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 07:35:14 -0500, Cub Driver usenet AT danford DOT
net wrote:


I've always called the lights on wingtip and tail "navigation lights,"
but of course they aren't for navigation; they're to mark the aircraft
to avoid collision, or so that one plane can fly in formation with
another.

What's the name that suggests this purpose? Recognition lights?


For what it's worth, I've decided to call them "wingtip lights".


-- all the best, Dan Ford

email: usenet AT danford DOT net

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"Cub Driver" usenet AT danford DOT net wrote in message
...
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 07:35:14 -0500, Cub Driver usenet AT danford DOT
net wrote:


I've always called the lights on wingtip and tail "navigation lights,"
but of course they aren't for navigation; they're to mark the aircraft
to avoid collision, or so that one plane can fly in formation with
another.

What's the name that suggests this purpose? Recognition lights?


For what it's worth, I've decided to call them "wingtip lights".


Why?