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Article #619804Re: 1956 -- circuit reliability book
From: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 18:24
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 18:24
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On 2018-02-13, Bernd Felsche <ber...@innovative.iinet.net.au> wrote: > Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote: > >> On 2018-01-29, Bob Eager <news...@eager.cx> wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 12:56:49 -0800, hancock4 wrote: >>> >>>> Pretty sure that was a subtle joke. >>>> >>>> "Airplane" is largely based on the 1950s film, "Zero Hour", using a >>>> great deal of the original script. >>> >>> Zero Hour was 1957. It was in turn heavily based on "Flight Into Danger", >>> written by Arthur Hailey (who later wrote "Airport"). >>> >>> Flight Into Danger was a 1956 TV film written by Hailey (and John >>> Castle). It was later tuened into a book, which I have. > >> The 1958 novelization was titled "Runway Zero-Eight". Typical of >> Hailey's attention to detail, the destination airport, Vancouver, >> actually has a runway 08, which is the most commonly used runway >> in winter months. (It's now 08R; a parallel runway has since been >> built to the north of it.) > > They're "R" and "L" variants for those foleign pirots who have to be > advised to rand on Lomeo or Rima lunways. <chuckle> Thanks for that. This _is_ the Pacific Rim, after all. -- /~\ cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs) \ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way. X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855. / \ HTML will DEFINITELY be ignored. Join the ASCII ribbon campaign!
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