Try going through the pylons at 100 + miles and hour 25 feet off the ground with a bunch of other planes. You will learn to appreciate all the advancments in hardware. I suppose we could stop using things like airborne mixture control (should be able to guess at it before take off), computer monitored engines (shouldn't worry about leaning out in tight turns and burning up those expensive engines). We could eliminate computer engine controls for the turbine boys. Might be a long learning curve but they should be able to handle there jets without them in a "manly" way. Lets just go back to living in caves. Progress is bad... :-]