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Mary Shafer wrote:
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Those who say that GPS is "best thing since sliced bread" and
don't realize that there are significant downsides give me the
impression that they're either newbies, or they don't understand
the problem.

Who needs GPS when you have a star tracker and a current star map? It
worked for us with the SR-71.

Cool. We're having a little fly-in this weekend so you can bring your
SR-71 w/startracker and I'll bring my ultralight trike w/GPS...

Well no Mike, Mary's SR-71 affiliation is a fraud. There is however good
news for Dryden, 'cause now that the Iliffs are gone, the USAF may forgive
them for defrauding the Air Force on the X-29. There we were, Dryden just a
facility and the Challenger blown up and then USAF discovers they have been
robbed on their joint R&D with Dryden. Things looked mighty grim and the
facility might have had to close. If it hadn't been for simulation the
facility would probably have closed, but we lucked out and made something
the Navy couldn't ...

But those are the kinds of things that happen when you shaft your
bennefactors.

John P. Tarver, MS/PE