Dudley Henriques wrote in
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Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Dallas wrote in
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On Sat, 05 Jan 2008 15:42:40 -0500, Dudley Henriques wrote:

Sometime years down the line, one of those
pilots might catch something that saves lives because you and I
traded something together on Usenet.
Usenet might be the next Library of Alexandria... if Google decides
to maintain the database intact, everyone of us could be dead 60
years from now and people in 2068 could be researching and reading
our words as we write them today.

Your words could be saving lives of pilots 50 years from now.

Actually, I think they'll probably be laughing at us! "Those guys
flew aroudn with high explosives in their wings!

I have an extensive collection of old magazines and books from the
earliest days of aviation through to present day ( imagine what mrs
Bunyip makes of that if you will) There is some very good stuff in
there, much of it arcane but still very handy to know. Some of it is
pure crap. There was a two year discussion in Popular Avaition, the
forerunner of Flying, about levitaiton via mechanical means, for
instance. But other bits, especially some performance and nav
articles, are simply excellent. The EAA collated some of Raoul
Hoffman's stuff a few years ago all into one book. And the nav
articles by Weems, who was the guy who advised many of the long
distance flyers of the day, are pure gold.

Bertie

I still have an old Weems plotter around here someplace. If I remember
right it's slightly bent from the day I loaned it to a student and he
parked a Tri-Pacer on the ramp and left it on top of the glare shield
in the sun.
:-)


He he. I've seen them for sale on Ebay, but never an original.
He developed a strip plotter for long distance trans-oceanic flyers.
I'm not exactly sure how it worked, but Harold Gatty developed it with
him and used it on the round the world flight with Wiley Post. Anna
Lindbergh was one of his students at the insistence of her husband as
well. The articles are excellent.

Bertie