Originally Posted by
chuck416
Did you say don't START the APU till it's 105 in the back? Man, on the DC-9, we don't SHUT OFF the APU till it cools down TO 105....
Chuck
MEM DC-9/A
nice.
speaking of air, who in the hell teaches the ground crews that a half dozen or so kinks and 120 degree to 180 degree turns in the hose with a three twist gator to the connection is the right way to hook up air. I am forever undoing the hoses. And lav guys, put the hose back the wa... you know, you guys have it rough enough, you get a pass. Everyone else, here comes the APU! Enjoy loading those bags with it.
Originally Posted by
Ferd149
You are correct. NWA went from Northwest Airways to Northwest Airlines to get their US Airmail contract back after the scandal (I have a replica airways sign hanging in the office)
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History is cool eh?
That kind of stuff is cool. Its funny the idioms that we use that we have no clue where they originated from and its crazy how old (like several centuries) that some of them can be. I found it interesting looking at a map of ATL in the Civil War, you basically see I75, I20, I85-MGM when you look at it.