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From: Rich <rich@example.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2024 17:46:13 -0000 (UTC)
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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".