Amanda Angelika wrote:

In news:e7h2550tho@news2.newsguy.com,
Cardinal Chunder <cc@foo.no.spam.xyzabcfghllaa.com> typed:

Complete and total bollocks. Hundreds of commercial and military
pilots from WWI, WWII, Korea onwards would disagree with you. Do you
think jet pilots in 1949 used sophisticated computer systems? Do you
think they used *any* computer systems?

Problem is you are talking obsolete vintage aircraft that were limited by
the technology of the time.

No I'm talking about your stupid assertion that these people couldn't fly or turn a plane after some minimal training. They could and they obviously did.

> But even in WWII rudimentary pathfinder

technology was used to allow the RAF Lancaster bombers to perfom night raids
on blacked-out German cities. basically this consisted of beamed radio
signals that crossed over the target area.
Of couse these days one could put a cruise missile through Bin Liners's
letter box.

And so what?