Reporters saying "TARMAC" how stupid!!

and taxiways without cabs lined up.

Actually, at Montauk Point, you =can= get a taxi on the taxiway. And
as far as I know, the throttle does and always has.

Jose
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On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 18:22:27 GMT, Jose
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Money: What you need when you run out of brains.

Expletives and Swearwords:
The last refuge for those who have run out of brains.

Expletives and Swearwords:
The last refuge for those who have run out of brains.

Uh... was there anything in any of my posts that used or suggested
swearwords or explitives? Or do you find this week's sig line offensive?

Jose
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Jay Honeck wrote:

And the throttle -- that doesn't.

Uh ... what exactly do you think a throttle does?

George Patterson
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

Don't get me started on "pre-boarding"....

....or "preflight planning".

On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 20:42:02 GMT, Jose
wrote in ::

Expletives and Swearwords:
The last refuge for those who have run out of brains.

Uh... was there anything in any of my posts that used or suggested
swearwords or explitives? Or do you find this week's sig line offensive?

Don't get defensive Joe;I meant nothing personal.

I was just offering a corollary to your witty sig.

Actually, at Montauk Point, you =can= get a taxi on the taxiway. And as
far as I know, the throttle does and always has.

Just to make it even more interesting, it's the choke that does the
throttling.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

And the throttle -- that doesn't.

Uh ... what exactly do you think a throttle does?

To "throttle" means to choke.

Which, now that I look it up, is actually what the throttle *is* doing, in a
strange, counter-intuitive way.

I.E.: Early engines (such as in World War I planes) ran at full power -- or
they were off. The "throttle" was developed to actually retard power, even
though in modern usage we tend to think of it as the "accelerator"...

And here I always thought of the throttle as the "go" lever -- but it's
really the "stop" lever!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay Honeck wrote:

Which, now that I look it up, is actually what the throttle *is* doing, in a
strange, counter-intuitive way.

If you look how a carburator is built, it's very intuitive and not
strange at all. (Of course, on a fuel injected engine, you're correct.)

Stefan

FWIW, the only place I hear the word used anymore is in aviation- "the
tarmac" being used to refer to anything outside the FBO and not in the
parking lot. When I was younger I used to hear older folks refer to parking
lots and such being "macadam" but now the "asphalt" or the generic
"pavement" seem to be all people use in the common argot.

-cwk.

"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
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On 05 Jan 2005 17:36:23 GMT, unkno (CASK829) wrote in
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Why is it that idiot reporters use the term "TARMAC"?

Perhaps it's because of this entry in the Merriam-Webster Collegiate
Dictionary: