Spoilers or Airbrakes - Whats in a name?

I'll bet that definition and that instrument are both older than ours --
nad more widespread, probably.

At 14:39 19 May 2008, Lew Hartswick wrote:
>Ralph Jones wrote:
>> Variometer American Heritage Dictionary
>>
>> A variable inductor used to measure variations in terrestrial
>> magnetism.
>>
>> rj
>I would say that the "American Heritage Dictionary" has
abslutely
>no electronic knowledge then. :-)
> ...lew...
>

Nyal Williams wrote:
I'll bet that definition and that instrument are both older than ours --
nad more widespread, probably.


Ralph's point, IMHO, is that you don't go to a general dictionary to get
specialized information.

Tony V.
http://home.comcast.net/~verhulst/SOARING

On May 19, 5:25 pm, Tony Verhulst wrote:
Nyal Williams wrote:
I'll bet that definition and that instrument are both older than ours --
nad more widespread, probably.

Ralph's point, IMHO, is that you don't go to a general dictionary to get
specialized information.

Tony V.http://home.comcast.net/~verhulst/SOARING

Furthermore, you may even want to look elsewhere for general
information. Websters is full of definitions like this:

Hill - "a raised elevation of land, smaller than a mountain"

Mountain - "a raised elevation of land, larger than a hill"

no joke.

Paul Hanson

At 02:32 20 May 2008, sisu1a wrote:
On May 19, 5:25 pm, Tony Verhulst wrote:
Nyal Williams wrote:
I'll bet that definition and that instrument are both older than
ours
--
nad more widespread, probably.

Ralph's point, IMHO, is that you don't go to a general dictionary to
get
specialized information.

Tony V.http://home.comcast.net/~verhulst/SOARING

Furthermore, you may even want to look elsewhere for general
information. Websters is full of definitions like this:

Hill - "a raised elevation of land, smaller than a mountain"

Mountain - "a raised elevation of land, larger than a hill"

no joke.

Paul Hanson

It defines gorse as furze and it defines furze as gorse with no further
explanations in either place.

My point was that the definition of a variometer is not the property of
the soaring community. ;-)

On May 20, 6:55 am, Nyal Williams wrote:
At 02:32 20 May 2008, sisu1a wrote:



On May 19, 5:25 pm, Tony Verhulst wrote:
Nyal Williams wrote:
I'll bet that definition and that instrument are both older than
ours
--
nad more widespread, probably.

Ralph's point, IMHO, is that you don't go to a general dictionary to
get
specialized information.

Tony V.http://home.comcast.net/~verhulst/SOARING

Furthermore, you may even want to look elsewhere for general
information. Websters is full of definitions like this:

Hill - "a raised elevation of land, smaller than a mountain"

Mountain - "a raised elevation of land, larger than a hill"

no joke.

Paul Hanson

It defines gorse as furze and it defines furze as gorse with no further
explanations in either place.

My point was that the definition of a variometer is not the property of
the soaring community. ;-)

Correct! It was the name of a short wave radio part (variable
inductance coil = variometer since around 1895) long before it was the
name for our sensitive VSI's. http://www.qsl.net/in3otd/variodes.html

Paul