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Sun, 19 March 2017 15:18 |
Anne & Lynn Wheel
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One of my favorite people, I use to sponsor his briefings at IBM:
The Mind of War: John Boyd and American Security, log1322-25:
Then Boyd began talking about curves and data on aircraft performance
and such. Christie had access to an IBM 7094 computer, a large one at
the time. He and Boyd began to write the necessary computer programs,
debug them, and start to work on the data they collected. They became
very close and formed an almost symbiotic relationship. Boyd learned a
lot about mathematics, computers, and programming from Christie.
log157-59:
So too did one of the nation’s premier aircraft designers, whose work on
something called energy maneuverability theory changed the way aircraft
were designed and tested. He was largely responsible for the development
of the U.S. Air Force’s premier fighters, the F-15 Eagle and the F-16
Fighting Falcon.
loc318-21:
Convincing others of the merits of what became the F-16 was an epic
five-year struggle inside the Pentagon. The Air Force senior leadership
did not want the F-16 and worked hard to kill it. Ultimately, a bunch of
upstarts centered in the Tactical Air shop took on the system and
won. Perhaps most remarkable was the creation of a fighter that cost
less than its predecessor, a record likely to stand in perpetuity.
.... snip ...
Boyd would tell this story about F15 forces (even after he significantly
improved the design) trying to have him thrown in Leavenworth for the
rest of his life because he was working on F16; the scenario was he was
using millions of dollars in gov. computer designing the F16, which
wasn't an approved project, effectively making the computer use, theft
of millions of dollars in gov. property (the computer time).
He crossed swords with SECDEF over the electronic survellience of trail
(coming out of North Vietnam), wouldn't work ... possibly as punishment
he was put in charge of spook base (Boyd would say that it had the
largest air conditioned bldg in that part of the world). Another of
Boyd's biographies mentions spook base was a $2.5B (in 60s dollars)
windfall for IBM. spook base reference gone 404, but lives on at wayback
machine
http://web.archive.org/web/20030212092342/http://home.att.ne t/~c.jeppeson/igloo_white.html
posts & web URLs referencing Boyd
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html
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virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
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