buffnut453
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That's not gibberish...it's gobbledygook!!!! Sheesh...don't you even know basic aviation terminology?
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That's not gibberish...it's gobbledygook!!!! Sheesh...don't you even know basic aviation terminology?
PLB = Clinton County Airport (Plattsburgh, NY)
MSS = Massena Airport
OGS = Ogdensburgh Airport
ART = Watertown Airport
SYR = Syracuse Airport
BGM = Binghamton Airport
AVP = Wilkes-Barre Airport
EWR = Newark Airport
BTV = Burlington Airport
ALB = Albany Airport
BOS = Logan Airport (Boston)
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
Kind of takes the mystery out of it.
GregP
Major
Which airport is WTF?
GrauGeist
Generalfeldmarschall zur Luftschiff Abteilung
What's odd, is that there were lea
Only one local, that I can think of, is AVX - if that's not a WTF, I don't know what is.
The past ten years I traveled 3 weeks a month for work. Hit 1.1 million miles with Delta. Got to work in all 50 States and Puerto Rico. Learned lots of airport codes planning those flights & drives.
Way Too Far.
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
I've flown Delta many times and it was always a good experience, except for the LAG part.
The story goes that when Wichita Falls applied for an airport code back in the 1950s, they innocently requested WTF. The CAA responded "Denied". No explanation, no comment, which was most unusual in those days.
GregP
Major
My favorite is DUA .... Don't Use Abbreviations.
Once, as test manager for a company, we were working with Lockheed martin on a Space Shuttle component and we had a femal engineer from Lockheed Martin attend one of our test meetings. We were discussing environment testing and there are a lot of abbreviations for environmental testing. We were testing for temperature, altitude, humidity, blowing dust, blowing sand, shock, vibration, gunshock, etc. It is pretty standard in the busineed to called temperature, altitude, and humidity with the abbreviaiton T, A, and H.
We were having some issues with temperature and altitude test results, and spent an hour or so discussing T & A, which SHOULD have been obvious since we discussed temperature and altitude. After about 45 minutes, the female engineer was looking a bit angry and demanded to know exactly what T & A was supposed to be. After all of us males looked at her like she was from another planet for about 10 seconds, then we all burst out laughing and explained it was temperature and altitude. She broke up laughing and we went on with the meeting after a few minutes of amusement. We apologized for causing her grief and mentioned that we had all been using these abbreviations for 20 years. After that, I composed a list of environmental test abbreviations that I sent out to the participants before any meeting where we expected women to attend. It bled over into other test subject as well since almost all had a long list of abbreviations.
Once, as test manager for a company, we were working with Lockheed martin on a Space Shuttle component and we had a femal engineer from Lockheed Martin attend one of our test meetings. We were discussing environment testing and there are a lot of abbreviations for environmental testing. We were testing for temperature, altitude, humidity, blowing dust, blowing sand, shock, vibration, gunshock, etc. It is pretty standard in the busineed to called temperature, altitude, and humidity with the abbreviaiton T, A, and H.
We were having some issues with temperature and altitude test results, and spent an hour or so discussing T & A, which SHOULD have been obvious since we discussed temperature and altitude. After about 45 minutes, the female engineer was looking a bit angry and demanded to know exactly what T & A was supposed to be. After all of us males looked at her like she was from another planet for about 10 seconds, then we all burst out laughing and explained it was temperature and altitude. She broke up laughing and we went on with the meeting after a few minutes of amusement. We apologized for causing her grief and mentioned that we had all been using these abbreviations for 20 years. After that, I composed a list of environmental test abbreviations that I sent out to the participants before any meeting where we expected women to attend. It bled over into other test subject as well since almost all had a long list of abbreviations.
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Years after Curtiss flew the XP-51 "Ascender"...
Dash119
Senior Airman
It was the XP-55 "Ascender"...
GrauGeist
Generalfeldmarschall zur Luftschiff Abteilung
AKA "Ass-Ender" 
I blame fat fingers...
Dash119
Senior Airman
When this type of thing happens to me, it's almost always a loose nut on the keyboard...
With me it was a case of thinking 55 and typing 51.
I try to avoid loose nuts as much as I can.
GregP
Major
Tight ones hurt!
Loose nuts lead to loose screws.
GregP
Major
So THAT's why they call them "loose?"
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