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Not sure about your use of the colon there eighty

I'd agree, in the corporate world there are always people trying to impress by using big words and slick sayings.

And maybe don't even think that!

You usually get buffetting, you lose lift and get lots of drag. Your wing has stopped working, as a wing. Nev

There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. What are they?

this is the "buzz" word characterised by being inane, and frequently drifts out of use quickly

Cool Cat

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Hassle

Hey Man

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It does eighty. The first time I heard it was in a United Airlines 747 coming in to Honolulu. I wondered if Oahu was just too small.....

ARE they all changing to the XL?

When I call North America to make a credit card purchase, they always ask for an "expiration date". What is wrong with "expiry"?

Most of my work is offshore with American Companies, and they are my customers, so my emails need to talk about Tires, Gasolene, Center, Program, but to their Australian divisions in Australian English. It's not that hard to learn really, easier than French or Japanese.

The US word I like most is momentarily as in "We will be landing momentarily" or "I'll send it momentarily"

What might amaze some people is that American English is the older, dating back to the emigrants of the 1600's who retained much of the spelling and pronunciation from that

century, being isolated from Europe, while the English changed and refined their language due to interaction with Europe, the slowest to change being the Irish who were the poorest and least able to travel. Bill Bryson wrote a great book with thousands of examples on this.

I've seen a lot of cables peel, in farm applications and they all seem to progress very quickly once the first strand snaps, so it would be an interesting exercise if someone has tension gauges capable of reading the tension at breaking point of the cable, and of the strand.

From my farm experience I suspect the rolling of both steel cables and hemp rope provides a friction which reduces stretching of the individual strands, but have no definitive evidence of that.

What I would hope is that aviation cable is being used on home builts.

Your 8.27% calculation, whether right or wrong is a good method of picking up factors which may escape eyesight. If for example you know that an elevator surface has 27% more area than a previous design, it gives you at least a pointer to the fact that it might be a lot more sensitive and may require different leverages to avoid over control for example. In other words it's a handy tool for comparisons. For example 7/16" through bolts are about 16.7% stronger than 3/8"

Is it just me or are there alot of Savannahs for sale recently? mostly vg's and kit built.Are all the owners building XL versions and trying to offload the older planes? or is it just because they are a nice plane to build so owners are building and selling to build another?

There are Six for sale in this months members market alone. Is this cause for concern for a prospective buyer or just a great opportunity?

It's make believe Iggy, whoever did it used whatever footage he could blend in.

I'd put "learning to fly and learning the regulations", "maintaining recency", and "doing the right thing" into three different categories.

The Instructor has responsibilities to teach the first, set a good example, and make you aware of the second and third.

Statistics seem to indicate the lowest number of incidents occur while we are being trained, and that we then fail to keep up with the second and third.

... "There will be trouble" added Salty "So you'll have to order a Cummins Spinner, and a ......

"....set of big spats so you can........."

That's cause Mac people couldn't handle full words Tomo

And to turbo, When you get a call from a Journalist there's no time to come up with a word perfect teflon comment, well yes, its two words "no comment" .

And I notice (don't ya luv English spelling?) that the spell checker in this program only recognizes one spelling for the homophone 'practise/practice and doesn't like the 'u' in behaviour. Damned spellchecker! Probably assembled by some humourless B. Old Man Emu

These are due to using an American spell checker. Many programmes these days give you the option of using British, or even Australian.

One trap for people who decide they aren't going to learn, but just use a spell check is that when they use a wrong word it gets through and looks ridiculous.

Funnily enough this was one topic on "QI" last week. Apparently, although we all learned that aide memoir, it is actually wrong for more English words than it is correct.

In most cases the problem is just not spending enough time on words that give you trouble ("haven't got time now will check it another day" and that particular word always causes the same confusion next time it's needed).

"You can't do that" said the CASA Inspector "It's against the Glenelg Convention, and can also make them out of balance and hard to clean. Besides, a spinner is too .........

"difficult to hold on to unless you grab her by the ears, and then...."

Go to a model aircraft shop and you'll pick up both ARF (Almost Ready to Fly) or complete aircraft with movable control surfaces quite cheaply. They sell them without engines/servos, and you'll have correct aerodynamic proportions.

You're right, never

Brakes Alert! she switched it off in #28

..... "Summer is just alound the corner", Nobu said, summarily "And I leckon that ......

".......PlaneDrivel will get sunburnt and be along shortly to complain there aren't enough aviation terms around"

"Come in Spinner........"

....... "Well, we certainly hope so" said Ian and several of the MagnificentModeratti, as the NES needs an injection instead of being stuck in a timewharp with Ratpoo and the TuberPlanter "What this story needs is an injection of new something by someone, sometime, somehow, somewhere, and we know just the ......Le plume de ma Tante reckons that Eddie is a close mate of The Rat, after all, ......

........somewhat, but.....