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Old 21st Feb 2003, 13:03
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Got it on tape, so I'm looking forward to watching over the weekend - I am reminded of a tale recounted to me by an ex GF man, when he was in the Engineering manager's office one evening after a flight test on an L-1011. The manager was writing up what he called a 'boom sheet' which turned out, on being asked what he meant, to be Lockheed slang for a list of defects on a particular aircraft. The name goes back to the days when a P-38 would have its' defects listed on a sheet of paper, which was then fixed to the tail - hence the term.

So the P-38's legacy lives on in more ways than one!
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