Slide rules -

[Bill Coleman AA4LR]

On 3/19/99 6:34 PM, Sandy W5TVW at ebjr at worldnet.att.net wrote:

>At 10:05 AM 3/19/99 -0500, you wrote:
>
>>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
>
>        NOT!  I still rely on one of my three slide rules to give me
>answers to
>design problems!  No batteries required, and always ready to operate!

Perhaps you mistook my meaning -- I meant that the "batteries" in the
E6-B never wear out. Because there aren't any....


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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