Tloewald comments on "The Cannons on the B-29 Bomber Were a Mid-Century Engineering Masterpiece"

By Tloewald

In the early aughts I wrote a simulation for training infantry to call in artillery strikes. It relied on compasses and maps for exactly these reasons. Another point is that understanding what the automatic tools are doing for you makes you better at understanding the automatic tools (and why they’re failing when they fail).

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Tloewald comments on "The Cannons on the B-29 Bomber Were a Mid-Century Engineering Masterpiece"