Don't Touch My Switch!
05-23-2010, 07:35 AM
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Don't Touch My Switch!
Don't ever let a Co-Pilot touch 
05-24-2010, 06:29 AM
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Originally Posted by KC10 FATboy
Can someone explain the history or thinking behind this? I don't get it.
Can be a case of an overeager F/O or an over-controlling Captain, either way it can be entertaining to watch as a jumpseater.
05-24-2010, 12:43 PM
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Originally Posted by KC10 FATboy
Can someone explain the history or thinking behind this? I don't get it.
a metaphor for a co-pilot.
or captain 
A very interesting history to these box's. Brought about by a Claude Shannon. Full article.
In a long career at MIT, Shannon was the embodiment of the school's "eccentric genius" stereotype. He was known for traversing the university, indoor and outdoor, on his unicycle, and for his own amusement he designed and built such contraptions as a motorized pogo stick, a calculator that took input and gave answers only in Roman numerals, and numerous fully functional three-ball juggling machines. Based on a suggestion from Marvin Minsky, he built a working "ultimate machine" — a box with a switch that, when switched on, powered a mechanical hand that emerged from the box to switch the switch back off, then withdrew into the box as the mechanism powered down. He was a distant cousin of Thomas Edison.
Claude Shannon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Marvin Minsky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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