Several years ago I had the opportunity to realize one of my lifelong dreams: learning to fly. At the time, I was living in the Tampa Bay area, which has several small airports and flight schools.

The E6B flight computer is a mechanical slide rule used by pilots to perform a variety of calculations, including groundspeed, time, distance, fuel burn, and density altitude, by aligning values on ...

In the early days of aviation, pilots or their navigators used a plethora of tools to solve common navigation and piloting problems. There was definitely a need for some kind of computing aid that ...