Why is it called the "pickle button?

[scoreboard]

Why "pickle button"? Because "The napalm sticks to babies button" was taken.

 

[BiffF15]

Maybe it's because the things that fall out of airplanes after the pilot hits the little red button are green and might just resemble pickles from afar...

The Norden bomb sight was pretty accurate for the 40's, as was the K-14 lead computing gunsight installed in Mustangs and Thunderbolts. It was also one of the first examples of HOTAS as the pilot could roll the throttle to change the parameters of the gunsight IAW the type of aircraft he was shooting at. With the "pickle button".

I wonder why the trigger is called the TRIGGER?...

 

[tomgoodman]

Good question

I wonder why the trigger is called the TRIGGER?...

[Dutch trekker, from Middle Dutch trecker, from trecken, to pull.] -- American Heritage Dictionary

 

[BiffF15]

[Dutch trekker, from Middle Dutch trecker, from trecken, to pull.] -- American Heritage Dictionary

Tom,
It was a feeble attempt at humor via word play...
Biff

 

[pilotyip]

I wonder why the trigger is called the TRIGGER?...

Maybe because you horse around with it?