Figuring out the specs of Cold War Soviet airplanes

Bill Sweetman described how he would use graph paper and a Sinclair Cambridge calculator to try figure out the specifications of Soviet warplanes during the Cold War.

By Richard J. Terry [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

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