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

[Ron]

Betcha that the slide rule didn't fail near as often as the analog flight 
computer system!
RonH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Brandt" <f111a at austin.rr.com>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 10:31 AM
Subject: <VV> Sliderules: betcha don't have one of these....


> 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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