Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Thu, 26 Dec 2024 12:44:57 +0100, D wrote:
 

Wow!  Talk about a visionary!  He took the logical step from
everyone owning a car, to everyone owning a plane!  I would like to
own a flying car.  Even a helicopter I would be content with! 
Imagine...  then I could build a _real_ fortress of solitude, far,
far away from any public roads!

 
Now there's a scary thought.  When I was learning to fly a fixed wing
the person teaching me, an ag pilot with several thousand hours in
the air, was trying to tech himself to fly a helicopter.  He was as
frustrated as I was.  The motivation was to allow precise insecticide
application rather than the fly low and open the valves technique.

Never flown one (other than in video games, which don't count) but just
thinking about the physics involved leads one to the conclusion that it
is similar a way to learning to recover from a skid in a car (only
likely 10x or 100x for a helo).  You can do all the "book reading" you
want, but until you practice enough times for real for the proper
reaction to become instinctual you will not be able to "recover" or
"fly".