>>(any of you windoze guys want to chance flying behind your operating system?
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sorry, couldn't resist that!)<<
Nope. OTH are you telling us Macs never crash?
Seriously, though who needs GUIs except for the displays. The aeroplane doesn't
need displays. The software for Boomerang was written by Burt's son Geof. I
didn't ask what the language was.
I am right behind Burt about instrumentation systems. It doesn't make a lot of
sense to have swiss watch type devices which are fragile, expensive and not all
that reliable. Solid state electronic devices are orders of magnitude cheaper
and probably much more reliable now. Aviation seems to be hooked on 1930s
technology. Who would dream of buying a car with fixed timing magnetos?
Don't know about the sensors all over the Boomerang, but last year Burt was
talking about attitude and position sensing using very accurate radar. He'd been
involved in a remote controled spyplane for the military.
Graham
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