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 mechanical E6B flight computer, likened to the "cursive writing" of aviation, is a foundational tool for calculating essential flight parameters (e.g., fuel burn, wind correction), despite being ...

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 ...