🚀 go-pugleaf

J. Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 13:55:22 -0700 (PDT), hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
> 
>> On Tuesday, April 24, 2018 at 4:13:54 PM UTC-4, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>>> On 2018-04-24, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com <hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Tuesday, April 24, 2018 at 12:12:09 AM UTC-4, Jon Elson wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> off topic
>>>>>> Two page ad by United Aircraft describing new B-52 bomber.
>>>>> 
>>>>> https://books.google.com/books?id=ElYEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&dq=life%20bus&pg=PA10#v=onepage&q&f=false
>>>>> 
>>>>> AAAnd, they are still flying!
>>>> 
>>>> Retired airforce pilots have not spoken well of them--the airframes
>>>> are too old.
>>> 
>>> Sort of like the ancient Sea King helicopters that the Canadian
>>> military had to deal with.  One of the pilots wrote a critique,
>>> sung to the tune of "Seasons in the Sun":
>>> 
>>> Goodbye papa, it's hard to fly
>>> When your airframe's cracking in the sky.
>>> For every hour in the air,
>>> It takes twenty to repair.
>>> We fly these things on a dare.
>>> 
>>> We had joy, we had fun,
>>> We had Sea Kings in the sun.
>>> But the engine's on fire,
>>> And the Sea Kings must retire.
>> 
>> One time in NYC some Canadian Navy ships paid a visit and 
>> hosted an open house.  On the bridge they had typical
>> office desks with a PC on them.  The PC screens had
>> a vertical chart with the speeds of the old ship's
>> telegraph--full ahead, full astern, etc.
>> 
>> I thought that was kind of sad.
> 
> You do understand that to actually change the speed of the ship
> involves considerably more than pressing an accelerator pedal.  You
> tell the black gang how fast you want to go and they make it happen.
>> 
>> However, I believe the veteran workhouse, the Teletype model
>> 28, was originally developed for marine service.  according
>> to Wikipedia, that remained in production as long as the model
>> 33 did, even though it was Baudot.  A lot of Western Union 
>> networks stuck with Baudot.  I think their SIMCOM was Baudot.
>> 

Like the stokers in the movie -A Night to Remember_: The telegraph told the
engineer how fast to go and he yelled at the stokers to shovel faster ;-)

-- 
Pete