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Old 6th Feb 2015, 15:11
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Rossian
 
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My lips are sealed..

....as to my source (even though he's retired).

His tales of the users' conference agenda items re the toilet in the ATP were hilarious. (freezing thawing and eventually boiling).

The control runs through the frames with a different harmonic wavelength eating their way through the "grommets" and metal before they sussed it.

I had the opportunity to watch his senior managers in operation and "petty"
is a generous description of their behaviour.

When he moved over to the 146 his descriptions of how they borrowed money at X% to "lend" to customers at X-something to "buy" the a/c, left me slack jawed.

Fitting Textron engines and guaranteeing them for a stupid number of hours when every other operator threw them out at one quarter of that time.

I'm amazed that aerospace actually ever made any money.

The Ancient Mariner
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