Oh yes, regardless of how much "fancy" stuff you had it did you no good if you
got lost, a a not so unusually occurrence - - - - - - how do I know that ????
Bob Kitterer
1960 Austin Healey Sprite (Mk IV in disguise) - in storage
1966 Austin Healey Sprite Mk III (Trevor) - still in boxes - in storage
2000 Miata Special Edition - in storage
On Jan 26, 2010, at 7:34 AM, Tim Collins wrote:
> Bob,
> Thanks for the explanation. Makes sense that you would need two watches, one
>specifically to measure "delay" times. I suppose the navigator had to be able
>to do some math quite quickly to account for delay times, velocity lost during
>deceleration, acceleration, etc. So now that's done with gadgets, GPS, kids
>toys (Nintendo gameboy), cell phones, computers, or what have you? For a guy
>like me who doesn't own a GPS, cell phone, gameboy, etc - a Luddite - this is
>interesting. Thanks!
>
>
> At 11:50 PM 1/25/2010, Bob Kitterer wrote:
>> Tim,
>>
>> Back in the days before dirt, calculators, minicomputers and such a serious
>U.S. ralley team would have two electric odometers, two or three stop watches
>and a trusty slide rule.
>>
>> The reason for the multiple watches is that one has the time you took on the
>last section (along with one of the odometers), one is ticking off the time on
>the current section(along with one of the odometers) and if you had fixed
>delays then the third watch comes in to play. For instance "Allow 5 minutes
>to cross the train tracks." When you reached the train tracks you would stop
>the current time watch while at the same time start the delay watch. Once
>across the tracks you would wait for the delay time to lapse and restart the
>current time watch as you proceeded on the route. The "correct avg speed" did
>not account for the delay time but the overall time did.
>
> Tim Collins
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/12702006@N07/
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