<VV> Sliderules: betcha don't have one of these....

[Jim Houston]

I was a Loadmaster in another life, and I have two slide rules for W&B - 
C130B and C130E..  sure made my life easier in '72 when the smaller 
calculators came out...

Jim Houston
Lithia, FL
'65 Monza coupe
'66 Corsa convertible

Phil Brandt wrote:
> When I went through RF-4C RTU at Mt. Home in 1970, a classmate and friend who had been a B-58 DSO (third crew position) at Bunker Hill AFB, IN gave me his aluminum, B-58-logoed, fuel balance sliderule in a heavy leather case; still have it  Here they were, flying a state-of-the-art, Mach 3 airplane--IMO still one of the alltime best looking airframe designs--with a tremendously complicated analog flight control/engine computer (a sexy female voice recording would give advisories/warnings over interphone such as, "Number three engine is on fire.") and they're doing inflight CG calculations with a sliderule! :)
>
> Phil Brandt
> CORSA since '71
> Austin, TX
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