Slide rules -

[Bill Coleman AA4LR]

On 3/18/99 10:01 PM, Bill Watson NV4T at Nv4t at aol.com wrote:

>I remember showing my then teenage son a sliderule and his comment that it
>was
>neat and he wondered who could have been clever enough to invent it.  The
>best
>part-it's portable and no batteries needed!

Slide rules may be pretty much dead in the engineering sector, but they
are still in use daily by pilots. For those pilots whose aircraft do not
have a flight management system (FMS), the old E6-B flight computer is
indispensible. Sure, there are electronic equivalents, but as Bill said,
the batteries never wear out.



Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL        Mail: aa4lr at radio.org
Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
            -- Wilbur Wright, 1901

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