how have things changed and are these the type of conversations that you have? oh, yeah, all the time. when i started flying in them. we actually used the less fuel navigation. wow, using stars to actually find your way around. that s right. that was back in the early 80s and prior to that, we used radar navigation, and a concept called dead reckoning. we didn t have the global position systems on air today that allow the very precision strikes. so it s changed quite a bit. clayton: now when you talk to your dad about the technology on board. what do you think? you get to play with the newfangled gadgets and don t have to look at the stars anymore to find my way home. we ve got a lot of new development for sure and talked about earlier, with the precision weapons and a pod that we can use, laser guided weapons for as well as gps as well, too. changed a little bit from the