On 26 Mar 2004 19:12:34 GMT, (B2431) wrote:

From: Ed Rasimus

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Seven years in F-4s and I never heard of "slime lights". Do you mean
photo-luminescent formation strips?


"Slime lights" are the lights you describe. I never heard the term when I was
on F-4s in the 1970s but it was used on the H-60s in the 1980s. I was in the
first Air Force unit, Eglin AFB, to get the H-60 and the term "slime lights"
seems to have come with them so it may be an Army term. Having said that I have
also heard A-10 types call them that too so I may be off base with that guess.

Think it was Eglin around 1968 when I saw them installing the lights
on an F-4 for the first time. I was walking by a hanger and there was
an F-4 inside with air hoses hanging off the aircraft. Basically glue
and then a vacuum applied for something like 24 hours.