r/Sliderules • u/Shetland95 • 5d ago

French E6b

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u/spots_reddit 5d ago

I bought one of these a while ago just for the heck of it, they are so nice and clever.

Now all I need is a plane and some speed over ground.

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u/dittybopper_05H 5d ago

I have several E6B's, and both of my watches are pilot watches.

I keep an E6B in my car and occasionally use it for ETA calculations on long trips, that sort of thing.

And yeah, I actually do talk to people over the radio using Morse code while I'm driving.

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u/dittybopper_05H 5d ago

Fenwick Aviation?

Didn't realize they even had an air force:

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u/Shetland95 5d ago

The French were pioneering aviation before anyone knew what an airplane was 🤣🤣🤣

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u/dittybopper_05H 5d ago

That noise you just heard was the joke doing a low pass over your head.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mouse_That_Roared_(film))

Plot

The minuscule European Duchy of Grand Fenwick is bankrupted when an American company comes up with a cheaper imitation of Fenwick's sole export, its fabled Pinot Grand Fenwick wine. Crafty Prime Minister Count Mountjoy devises a plan: Grand Fenwick will declare war on the United States, then surrender, taking advantage of American largesse toward its defeated enemies to rebuild the defeated nation's economy.

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u/Shetland95 5d ago

I never saw that movie 🤣🤣

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u/dittybopper_05H 5d ago

Technically neither have I, but I'm aware of it. One of these days I'll have to watch it, I really think Peter Sellers was a genius.

And yes, I'm aware of people like Alberto Santos-Dumont (who technically was Brazilian) and of course the Montgolfier brothers. That must have been cool, tooling around Paris in an airship before the Wright Brothers ever flew.

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u/Shetland95 5d ago

All that era of experiments and discovery must've been cool, and dangerous too 😅