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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera View Post
With a speed so slow that they are off the scale so slow and predate any measurement or comparison to a computer of today.
Faster than a slide rule... faster than mine, anyway.

I wish I still had my slide rule. It would be fun to play with it again.

The number of calculations they did had to be mind boggling. Just the aero testing of the inlets was incredible; I think they measured 250,000 things. Not many people in that group, either.

JR
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