The particular slide rule that Breitling uses contained features making a host of pilot-appropriate calculations possible.
To the day he retired he insisted on using, and teaching, slide rule use.
My high school physics teacher spent a week teaching students how to use a slide rule.
Other important counting tools include: the slide rule, the calculator, the tally stick.
Nothing wrong with the slide rule, its users just run a big risk of not being successful against better tooled competitors.
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They have a dedicated slide rule tutorial on their website for those eager to learn about this semi-archaic piece of computational technology.
He mentioned to me that in pilot school he did in fact learn how to use a slide rule and watch bezel slide rule.
"We kind of take for granted that we have this kind of technology, but at the time they were operating with the slide rule, " he said.
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He continued publishing papers, mostly on black holes and supernovae, well into his 90s, relying to the end on an old slide rule to make his calculations.
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Himself an engineer and mathematician who proudly wears a pocket protector and says he still uses a slide rule, Fisher has chosen a very different kind of executive as his likely successor.
Not only that, but he said that he would frequently use his watch to perform some of the calculations slide rule bezels were designed for when he was a Navy pilot.
The symbol of the test-pilot school at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave desert, where Mr Armstrong spent years testing military jets, flying the X-15 at 4, 000mph to the very edge of the atmosphere, is a slide rule over a stylised aircraft.
And he then put Obinna through with a magnificent slide-rule pass to wrap up the win with two of the 120 minutes remaining.
Hibs defender Derek Collins was still able to deliver a slide-rule pass to Miller but the young Hibs forward hesitated and Main blocked.
The Arsenal player cut in from the right and hit a slide-rule pass into the path of Semshov, momentarily lost by Stock, who struck a low, angled shot into the bottom left corner.
Fortunately for them Hull were even shakier and before the half-hour mark Torres doubled the lead, slipping on to a Benayoun slide-rule pass, nonchalantly rounding Ibrahima Sonko and Myhill before clipping into the net.
Haphazardly constructed over 40 years, it was based on 1960s, slide-rule era science that the Army Corps of Engineers never bothered to update, even as sophisticated computer models became the norm in engineering circles.
However, they were only brief forays into the opposition half and former Latic Valencia soon added United's fifth of the night, running on to Rooney's slide-rule pass to chip over substitute keeper Mike Pollitt and into the far corner.
Many among the educated middle class would prefer to give the new government a chance, fearing a slide towards military rule, or worse.
Some eye-care offices have a device called an accommodation rule that allows a technician to slide an eye chart back and forth to simulate different distances.
What we do know with considerable certainty is that Pakistan will have another round of phony elections on February 18 that will perpetuate General Musharaf's oppressive rule and continue the nuclear power's inexorable slide into violence and chaos.
Unlike PPV, however, IWIF is betting prices for California properties will slide, enabling the fund to buy into wineries that meet its rule of a 15% annual return.
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