Originally Posted by
212man
Is this our first AI response post?
Fraid knot,
212man; I beat
Tailspin Turtle by 3 posts. But, unlike TT I can’t claim any expertise, not even any rotary time, save a TIF in a Hiller many years ago and a couple of opportunities to play that cropped up in my fixed-wing career.
In the fixed-wing department, I am quite a fan of Gann. And of Eric “Winkle” Brown. EKG tells a story in his book, Flying Circus, about the bloke who taught me to fly the DC3 and Winkle Brown was a much admired colleague of my late Dear Old Dad, who was a Seafire pilot in the RNVR.
As you might expect,
Fate Is The Hunter and
Wings On My Sleeve have a place on my bookshelf.
When the OP posted the question, I remembered WB’s account in his book. I then asked ChatGPT to fill in the blanks and give me something to post for the benefit of this discussion…. thus my post #8.
Interestingly, in post #8, you can see where aí corrected my Chat Prompt in its answer (1945, not 1944).
So, piltblot beat Tailspin Turtle in this environment. Somehow however, I doubt either were the first to use AÍ in pprune-land.
Cheers,
pithblot