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Reply #15 - Jul 18th, 2003 at 12:09am

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You'll want to pick up the latest issue of The Aeroplane... they've been running articles headlining one aspect or another of aviation  ..  Article 6 of 12 this month is on Navigation... 

For an early (pre-1914) flight the pilot had two instruments (one probably a compass) and a rolling map ...

 

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Reply #16 - Jul 18th, 2003 at 12:30am

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a compass and a rolling map ...

Geesh!  Glad I'm not trying to emulate that! Tongue
 

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Reply #17 - Jul 18th, 2003 at 1:41am

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Of Course, but only one that I know of. It was called the E.N.I.A.C which was used by the military




Well done Andrew, I wouldn't think you were even aware of something that old......I think at the size of it, its hardly a hand-held device capable of being taken aboard any of the WWII A/C.....
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By today's standards for electronic computers the ENIAC was a grotesque monster. Its thirty separate units, plus power supply and forced-air cooling, weighed over thirty tons. Its 19,000 vacuum tubes, 1,500 relays, and hundreds of thousands of resistors, capacitors, and inductors consumed almost 200 kilowatts of electrical power.

 

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