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To: Flick Lives

“Pretty remarkable advancement when you think about it.”

Back then we didn’t use computers - engineer had to UNDERSTAND what they were designing, hence the SR-71 and Apollo.


13 posted on 08/19/2018 6:26:56 AM PDT by BobL (I drive a pick up truck because it makes me feel like a man)
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To: BobL

Back then we didn’t use computers - engineer had to UNDERSTAND what they were designing, hence the SR-71 and Apollo.

...adn it was the era of the slide-rule to do calculations!


16 posted on 08/19/2018 8:58:23 AM PDT by Flick Lives ("When they go low, we go spy." - Hillary Clinton campaign slogan)
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