Originally Posted by
767-300ER
my favourite....
landing gear.........undercarriage
oh...the RAF don't like the way North Americans use the word momentarily
eg "we will be starting engines momentarily...."
more correctly "we will be starting engines in a moment"
after several years of being berated over this, I tend to agree
We haven't even touched on reheat/afterburner
Originally Posted by
ve3id
Must have been back in the sixties when Paul McCartney was quoted as saying, in reference to a police raid in London, "then the metropolitan scuffers were all over us"
I hope not: Dad was a Met Inspector in charge of looking after the Beatles during one of their London sessions
Unfortunately the autographs he got for my sister have long been lost
