| Image Comments |
| LASTWOODSMAN | 04-Apr-17 21:48 |
| Anybody remember these ? |
| Huey V77 | 05-Apr-17 07:30 |
| Learned to use one when I was a student pilot in 1968. Have flown from Pittsburgh to California and back. Cleveland to Florida, and every where in between , haven't used that device since. My common sense computer took its place. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | 05-Apr-17 09:57 |
| The last time I used a manual Flight Computer was 30 years ago, on a 4 hour solo cross-country flight in North Western Ontario, departing Thunder Bay, overflying Atikokan, landing and refueling in Dryden, then straight back to Thunder Bay, over myriad unrecognizable lakes and boreal forests in the middle of the dead of winter at -20 deg F, in a Cessna 172 whose heater hardly worked. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | 05-Apr-17 10:02 |
| I froze the whole way, even all bundled up in Winter boots and hat, gloves, and parka - at least I was ready for a forced approach - backpack full of survival gear and the mandatory 2 foot axe. It was a relief to call Tower and tell them I had visual on Thunder Bay. Got the plane down barely in the nick of time at darkness before breaking VFR flight regs. |
| Don C | 05-Apr-17 10:28 |
| Never could master a slide rule, but these seemed to come easy. And having flown over northern Minnesota just south of Dryden and Thunder Bay, I know what you mean by unrecognizable lakes. |
| rgood | 05-Apr-17 11:15 |
| I expect that no-one remembers the Dalton computer! ( I don't know what happened to mine) |
| LASTWOODSMAN | 06-Apr-17 19:30 |
| Mr Good: I vaguely remember the dead reconing Dalton flight computer. The E-6B was developed in the United States by Naval Lt. Philip Dalton (1903–1941) in the late 1930s. The name comes from its original part number for the U.S Army Air Corps in World War II.
Philip Dalton was a Cornell University graduate who joined the United States Army as an artillery officer, but soon resigned and became a Naval Reserve pilot from 1931 until he died in a plane crash with a student practicing spins. |
| LASTWOODSMAN | 06-Apr-17 19:32 |
| Which leads to the second good story in my brief flying career, which I already emailed James about. |
| jgood | 07-Apr-17 11:49 |
| I do. I used one on Tuesday for time/speed/distance calcs. |
