The Incredible E6-B!

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I am quite impressed by this piece of technology. It is manifested ingenuity. Someone computed, not only flights, but the computation of flights proper. They not only computed the computation, but they formally materialized it into the handsized device!

Wow. Maybe for engineers it's all in a day's yawn. However I'm not an engineer. I'm plain impressed.

Will it ever lose its mystery for me?

 

[Skåning]

I guess it’s 5 o’clock somewhere

 

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I see bots have entered the chat...

 

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Whatever guys. Let's see you invent a piece of graphing that you can move around and get a wind-corrected heading.

 

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Whatever guys. Let's see you invent a piece of graphing that you can move around and get a wind-corrected heading.

You didn't invent it either.

 

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You didn't invent it either.

Yeah that's true. So what should I do? I'm thinking of changing my name to E6-B. It will make me sound more like a robot too, which helps the impression I give people that I am.

 

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Yeah that's true. So what should I do? I'm thinking of changing my name to E6-B. It will make me sound more like a robot too, which helps the impression I give people that I am.

If you think E6-Bs are cool, wait till you see a paper sectional...

 

[SteveC]

Whatever guys. Let's see you invent a piece of graphing that you can move around and get a wind-corrected heading.

You should look into slide rules as well. Magic, how well they work in doing complex calculations surprisingly accurately. An E6b is a circular version of a slide rule.

When I first studied engineering in the late 70's slide rules were just about phased out, but were still in use enough that I learned how to use one. Not sure what happened to the one I owned back then.

https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2014/10/22/356937347/the-slide-rule-a-computing-device-that-put-a-man-on-the-moon

https://www.sliderulemuseum.com/Calculators.htm

 

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If you think E6-Bs are cool, wait till you see a paper sectional...

I think those are the best maps ever made. I love how they look. But at least with those I can understand a bit that it's made for different sorts of information the ways maps usually are.

The mechanical flight computer is impressive to me because I don't understand how someone could engineer such a thing. It's a mystery to my mind. I've got no clues, other than something someone said about trigonometry, which I don't remember anything about it.

 

[killbilly]

How many alter-egos is Crop Duster/Space Monkey/Form 810 going to be allowed on this community?

Asking for a friend.

 

[N826AW]

How many alter-egos is Crop Duster/Space Monkey/Form 810 going to be allowed on this community?

Asking for a friend.

IDK man, I'm getting DW vibes.

 

[Hiboglossi]

How many alter-egos is Crop Duster/Space Monkey/Form 810 going to be allowed on this community?

Asking for a friend.

I don't think it's him, the Forms 810 account still posts pretty regularly and P.D. is not nearly long-winded enough to be him.

 

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You should look into slide rules as well. Magic, how well they work in doing complex calculations surprisingly accurately. An E6b is a circular version of a slide rule.

When I first studied engineering in the late 70's slide rules were just about phased out, but were still in use enough that I learned how to use one. Not sure what happened to the one I owned back then.

https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2014/10/22/356937347/the-slide-rule-a-computing-device-that-put-a-man-on-the-moon

https://www.sliderulemuseum.com/Calculators.htm

Well, that was educational.

 

[zmiller4]

You should look into slide rules as well. Magic, how well they work in doing complex calculations surprisingly accurately. An E6b is a circular version of a slide rule.

When I first studied engineering in the late 70's slide rules were just about phased out, but were still in use enough that I learned how to use one. Not sure what happened to the one I owned back then.

https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2014/10/22/356937347/the-slide-rule-a-computing-device-that-put-a-man-on-the-moon

https://www.sliderulemuseum.com/Calculators.htm

Slide rules are cool, but planimeters are ridiculous.

For work we measure areas on maps all the time. And it’s super easy to do with any mapping software. I work some some pretty aged folks though, and some of them use “planimeter” as a verb to measure an area because in the 70’s and 80’s they used to have to bust out the planimeter to measure acreage. That, or get the clear plastic sheet with boxes the same scale as your map and count up however many thousands of acres.

 

[JordanD]

Sigh..

 

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It's true we lost the art of numeracy. I don't know if it's coming back, either. My great gripe to life and society is that I was born in between generational booms and got neither of the best of both worlds. It's not so bad, though. It's just not so good either. Kinda in between. I can't catch up to the pace of technology and didn't learn any of the old stuff either. No basics. No sophistication. Enthusiasm only.

 

[Richman]

When you let AI bots play on the forums, you get Skynet.

Just sayin’…

 

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I didn't know form810 is a bot. I should've put it on ignore sooner. I guess someone was having a good laugh at the fact that it was giving me grief?

It seems that some of my threads become about me and whether I'm a bot or a human and I notice that it tends to happen when i make an overly enthusiastic post.

Lesson learned I am robut until further notice, or until someone who posts on a thread I make and someone who has real life contact with me equals the same individual

I accept my role for JC as a disappointing distraction and a community-designated trollish autistic robutt savant, but only I added savant

Sorry to disturb the JC vibes, folks! I was being genuinely foolish, I didn't think about it.

 

[Ian_J]

How many alter-egos is Crop Duster/Space Monkey/Form 810 going to be allowed on this community?

Asking for a friend.

I can prove @form810 is @Boris Badenov. Over the next couple of months I will present my proof. Trust me, it’s going to be Yuge. You won’t believe what I’ve uncovered.

 

[Wardogg]

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