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Old November 23rd 03, 05:15 AM
Jim Weir
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When we did the engine instrumentation warning circuits for Voyager, we
nicknamed it "Voyager Instrumentation Official Little Engine Thingey". (Read
"VIOLET"). When the red light came on and the fit hit the shan, That was OUR
light.


We put VIOLET on the instrument. It is VIOLET in the Smithsonian and in the
mockup at EAA.


HOWEVER...

Dick asked us to do a tank timer based on a West Bend kitchen egg timer. We did
that and called it Tank Interval Timer To Insure Engine Success (TITTIES)

The Smithsonian has our original TITTIES timer hanging with the airplane.

The EAA's mockup didn't have the cojnones to put "titties";' they blurred the
word on the display.

Talk about no guts at all...

Jim


Jim Weir (A&P/IA, CFI, & other good alphabet soup)
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