Giving Test Pilots the Right Stuff

[Wolf Baginski]

The great test pilots of the past, the ones who became the great astronauts, didn't have huge amounts of technical help to record what went wrong. There were pen recorders for some instruments, but when Chuck Yeager, in the movie "The Right Stuff" is reading out the speed, it's not to dramatise it for a cinema audience. He's telling an engineer something that might be useful, via the radio, if he doesn't come back.

In the tradition of Chuck Yeager and "Winkle" Brown, we can write things down as we fly, but it would be nice to have a few tools to help us record things. Speed and altitude, for instance, maybe plotted on a graph.

This might be something that could usefully go down the path of a connection to a browser. I don't have enough RAM for that, but if an HTTP connection can feed the data on speed, altitude, attitude, and time to an external program it could bypass a few problems for somebody wanting to log flight data.

[Streetwind]

Looks like you might want Telemachus.

[Commander Jebidiah]

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