It was St Christopher who actually kept travellers safe, and it is his image that still swings beside the rear-view-mirror rosaries and fluffy dice; whereas the kings come into play when the tyre is already flat, the speed cop already spotted, or the fine-notice glued to the windscreen by several days of rain.Myrrh on your clothesTheir names and kingdoms were fairly obscure.
Most Soviet fighters did not even have proper gunsights, their pilots having to draw them on the windscreen by hand.
Two pregnant ladies were dragged out of the broken windscreens by their hair.
Footage filmed by those at the scene showed two police officers firing repeatedly at the cabin of the truck – its windscreen pockmarked by at least 25 bullet holes.
On the way home, though, their van goes off the road, Simon goes through the windscreen, and by the time he arrives at the hospital – "Male, six feet, 154 pounds, about twenty years old, car accident, head trauma, in a coma" – his brain is dead.
Did that week of 10-hour queues to sign condolence books, of Elton John singing in Westminster Abbey, of a hearse heading up the M1, its windscreen obscured by bouquets hurled from motorway bridges - was all of that some bizarre lapse, a national psychotic episode?
In a previous fight south of Vlorë, Pattle had to return to base with the windscreen covered by oil from a shot down enemy bomber.
An armored police vehicle roared toward Pariak and returned a few minutes later, three of its tires shot to pieces and its thick windscreen cracked by rifle fire.
An armoured police vehicle roared off towards Pariak and returned a few minutes later, three of its tires shot to pieces and its thick windscreen cracked by rifle fire.
Starting in the summer of 1942 the TRE development team began experimenting with systems to project the display onto the windscreen, and by October had combined this with an image of the existing GGS Mk. II gyro gunsight to produce a true heads up display known as the Automatic Pilot's Indicator, or API.
A windscreen provided by the dosimeter manufacturer was placed over the microphone during recordings.
