E6B Flight Computer: the Pilot's Best Friend

Familiar to pilots the world over, the E6B Flight Computer is one of the few mechanical calculators / slide rules still in common use today. Designed in the 1930s by navigation pioneer Lt. Philip Dalton, the E6B has changed little over the last 9 decades and combines the ability to quickly and accurately perform speed, time, distance, fuel burn, altitude/speed correction, wind drift and other calculations in a single compact package that requires no batteries.
0:00 Introduction
1:20 Lt.Philip Dalton / Evolution of the E6B
4:44 E6B Design Overview
5:54 Slide Rule Arithmetic
6:39 Time, Speed, Distance, Fuel Burn Calculations
7:42 Unit Conversion
8:35 True Airspeed / Density Altitude /Mach Number Correction
9:40 True Altitude Correction
10:15 Drift Angle Calculation
10:58 Wind Triangle Construction
14:12 Compressibility Correction
14:51 E6B Conclusion
15:23 RAF/RCAF Dalton Dead Reckoning Computer
16:50 RAF/RCAF Computer, Height and Airspeed Mk.II
17:00 Batori Jet Computer B-26
18:05 Outro
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