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Hazcat

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Re: Trivia
« Reply #20 on: April 14, 2009, 05:42:01 AM »
My guess

Airplane throttle has a ball on it.  push forward (to the fire wall) for full power.
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Re: Trivia
« Reply #21 on: April 14, 2009, 09:55:20 AM »
I think Haz is on the right track.
From watching "Top Gun", when Mav was coming in to land the captain said "you've got the ball"

Damn, now I'm quoting movies. :-[
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Re: Trivia
« Reply #22 on: April 14, 2009, 10:01:37 AM »
Quote from: Hazcat on April 14, 2009, 05:42:01 AM
My guess

Airplane throttle has a ball on it.  push forward (to the fire wall) for full power.

Correct.....good guess...! ;)
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Re: Trivia
« Reply #23 on: April 14, 2009, 10:16:49 AM »
Quote from: 1911 Junkie on April 14, 2009, 09:55:20 AM
I think Haz is on the right track.
From watching "Top Gun", when Mav was coming in to land the captain said "you've got the ball"

Damn, now I'm quoting movies. :-[

That ball has to do with carrier landings by aircraft.  There is a visual aid used on carriers to let pilots know if they are on the proper glide slope to land on the deck. The part that moves up and down depending on how you're doing on the glide slope looks like a ball or "meat ball". The fact that you have a visual on the approach aid dictates a call to the controller on the ship.  When the controller says "you've got the ball" he's released the pilot for his final approach and it's the pilots job to trap the arresting cable unless he's waved off..  Pilots are graded on what cable they trap when landing.  Imagine doing it at night onto a flight deck that's pitching twenty or thirty feet....

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Re: Trivia
« Reply #24 on: April 14, 2009, 01:25:32 PM »
Quote from: Hazcat on April 14, 2009, 05:42:01 AM
My guess

Airplane throttle has a ball on it.  push forward (to the fire wall) for full power.

Quote from: Timothy on April 14, 2009, 10:01:37 AM
Correct.....good guess...! ;)

Saw a show about WWII aviators on the History channel a while back. It was fascinating hearing some of those men telling about their experiences in the air. One P-51 pilot was telling a story and he mentioned the term and then explained it to mean just what you said, 'throttle levers forward against the firewall'.

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Re: Trivia
« Reply #25 on: Today at 04:35:23 AM »
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Re: Trivia
« Reply #25 on: April 14, 2009, 01:32:23 PM »
An interesting side note on this....when a fighter "crash lands" on an aircraft carrier as soon as he/she traps the arresting cable, they "go balls to the wall" full power.  The exact opposite of what you would think they should do.  The reason for this is IF they miss the cable and need to relaunch, they have the power to do so...otherwise they generally go swimming...or die.

Sometimes they do everything perfectly and some still die........those guys got BIG BRASS ones, IYKWIM...
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Re: Trivia
« Reply #26 on: April 14, 2009, 01:36:46 PM »
OK....what significant event involving a handgun happened today in history?
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Re: Trivia
« Reply #27 on: April 14, 2009, 01:50:18 PM »
John Wilkes Booth shot President Lincoln in the Ford theatre.....April 14, 1865
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Re: Trivia
« Reply #28 on: April 14, 2009, 02:03:17 PM »
Quote from: Timothy on April 14, 2009, 01:50:18 PM
John Wilkes Booth shot President Lincoln in the Ford theatre.....April 14, 1865

Did Booth have a CCW?
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Re: Trivia
« Reply #29 on: April 14, 2009, 02:08:36 PM »
Quote from: CDR on April 14, 2009, 02:03:17 PM
Did Booth have a CCW?

Yes...............but I'm afraid back then it was just called the 2nd Amendment.     ;)
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