Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Sun, 22 Dec 2024 10:09:50 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

The real demise in my book was not the zeppelin hydrogen fire, but the
USS Shenandoah, which was literally torn in half by bad weather.

The thing to remember about the US zepplin attempts is they were based on
the design of a captured German zepplin "Height Climber". There were
designed to operate at 20,000', higher than the aircraft of the day, to
bomb Britain. They sacrificed strength to cut weight.

In the film 'Hells Angels', there is a scene where after ditching
everything to gain altitude the crew lines up and dutifully jumps.

The US did some improvements but gave up eventually. iirc only one
survived.