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Post by jfennell on Sept 11, 2013 18:14:35 GMT -4
The B-36 was a state of the art airplane in it's day. The Air Engineer was responsible for starting, maintaining and shutting down the 6 Radial Engines and 4 Jet Engines required to make it fly and mission completed. No modern "Fly by Wire" or "Computer controlled Aircraft" involved here. Just straight old manpower, brainpower and the guts to get it done. This is absolutely mind boggling to think about. The 360 degree viewing movement by moving your mouse is amazing. This is a 360 panorama of the flight engineers station on a B-36: Six reciprocating R-4360s and four J-47 jets to keep an eye on, plus fuel, pressurization, hydraulics, electrical, and other systems. www.nmusafvirtualtour.com/media/062/B-36J%20Engineer.html
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Post by coyote on Sept 11, 2013 19:51:17 GMT -4
So if I got this right, all these engineers were replaced by a laptop? ;D
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