Original Posted By: Michael Perez
Since traffic is a little slow and I know some of you like radial engines, takea look at David Stroud's Fairchild 51 replica:http://www.flickr.com/photos/9773776@N0 ... 305722923/ That is quite a large airframe!Oscar ZunigaAir Camper NX41CCSan Antonio, TXmailto: taildrags(at)hotmail.comwebsite at http://www.flysquirrel.net________________________________________________________________________________Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 10:58:47 -0800 (PST)
Pietenpol-List: off-topic: Fairchild 51
Pietenpol-List: Re: off-topic: Fairchild 51
Original Posted By: "Mild Bill"
Subject: Pietenpol-List: Re: Wing construction OT> > > > Word History: "Oh yes, Mater, we had a posh time of it down there." So in Punchfor September 25, 1918, do we find the first recorded > instance posh, meaning "smart and fashionable." A popular theory > holds that it is derived from the initials of "Port Out, Starboard > Home," the cooler, and thus more expensive, side of ships > traveling between England and India in the mid-19th century. The > acronym POSH was supposedly stamped on the tickets of first-class > passengers traveling on that side of ships owned by the Peninsular > and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. No known evidence supports > this theory, however. Another word posh was 19th- and early 20th-> century British slang for "money," specifically "a halfpenny, cash > of small value." This word is borrowed from the Romany word > ph, "half," which was used in combinations such as phera, > "halfpenny." Posh, also meaning "a dandy," is recorded in two > dictionaries of slang, published in 1890 and 1902, although this > particular pos!> h may be still another word. This word or these words are, > however, much more likely to be the source of posh than "Port Out, > Starboard Home," although the latter source certainly has caught > the public's etymological fancy.> > >From http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/posh> > Also see> http://tafkac.org/language/etymology/po ... gy_of.html> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Out,_Starboard_Home> > --------> Bill Frank> > > > > Read this topic online here:> > http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... 359#225359> > > > > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________________________Subject: Pietenpol-List: Re: off-topic: Fairchild 51
Subject: Pietenpol-List: Re: Wing construction OT> > > > Word History: "Oh yes, Mater, we had a posh time of it down there." So in Punchfor September 25, 1918, do we find the first recorded > instance posh, meaning "smart and fashionable." A popular theory > holds that it is derived from the initials of "Port Out, Starboard > Home," the cooler, and thus more expensive, side of ships > traveling between England and India in the mid-19th century. The > acronym POSH was supposedly stamped on the tickets of first-class > passengers traveling on that side of ships owned by the Peninsular > and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. No known evidence supports > this theory, however. Another word posh was 19th- and early 20th-> century British slang for "money," specifically "a halfpenny, cash > of small value." This word is borrowed from the Romany word > ph, "half," which was used in combinations such as phera, > "halfpenny." Posh, also meaning "a dandy," is recorded in two > dictionaries of slang, published in 1890 and 1902, although this > particular pos!> h may be still another word. This word or these words are, > however, much more likely to be the source of posh than "Port Out, > Starboard Home," although the latter source certainly has caught > the public's etymological fancy.> > >From http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/posh> > Also see> http://tafkac.org/language/etymology/po ... gy_of.html> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Out,_Starboard_Home> > --------> Bill Frank> > > > > Read this topic online here:> > http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... 359#225359> > > > > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________________________Subject: Pietenpol-List: Re: off-topic: Fairchild 51
Pietenpol-List: Re: off-topic: Fairchild 51
Original Posted By: "Mild Bill"
Here's a couple of shotshttp://1000aircraftphotos.com/Fairchild/4535.htmhttp://vilda.alaska.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/cdmg11&CISOPTR'25&REC=6ClifWarren Buffet "Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.">> I brought up the main page for the site and searched for Fairchild 51 but > most of the aircraft shots were of an A-10 in formation with a P-51, none > of the very few other Fairchild planes was a 51.>> --------> Bill Frank________________________________________________________________________________Subject: Pietenpol-List: Re: off-topic: Fairchild 51
Here's a couple of shotshttp://1000aircraftphotos.com/Fairchild/4535.htmhttp://vilda.alaska.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/cdmg11&CISOPTR'25&REC=6ClifWarren Buffet "Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.">> I brought up the main page for the site and searched for Fairchild 51 but > most of the aircraft shots were of an A-10 in formation with a P-51, none > of the very few other Fairchild planes was a 51.>> --------> Bill Frank________________________________________________________________________________Subject: Pietenpol-List: Re: off-topic: Fairchild 51
Pietenpol-List: off-topic: Fairchild 51
Original Posted By: Ryan Michals
Bill=3B I just went back to Dave's site and it came upjust fine=2Cbut my email client sometimes does strangethings to theword wrap so some of the address mayhave been truncated.Make sure it all gets pasted inthe line of your browser:http://www.flickr.com/photos/9773776@N0 ... 2923/Oscar ZunigaAir Camper NX41CCSan Antonio=2C TXmailto: taildrags(at)hotmail.comwebsite at http://www.flysquirrel.net________________________________________________________________________________Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:05:56 -0800 (PST)
Bill=3B I just went back to Dave's site and it came upjust fine=2Cbut my email client sometimes does strangethings to theword wrap so some of the address mayhave been truncated.Make sure it all gets pasted inthe line of your browser:http://www.flickr.com/photos/9773776@N0 ... 2923/Oscar ZunigaAir Camper NX41CCSan Antonio=2C TXmailto: taildrags(at)hotmail.comwebsite at http://www.flysquirrel.net________________________________________________________________________________Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:05:56 -0800 (PST)
Pietenpol-List: Re: off-topic: Fairchild 51
Original Posted By: "Mild Bill"
Oh, now I get it. [Smacks self on forehead.]In that quote I read "Mater" as "Mother" (which it is, in Latin) without even thinkingabout it, so I forgot all about it being in the quote and ended up wonderingif Tow Mater did some time traveling in a Cars Toon. It seems entirelyplausible for Mater to make such an outrageously implausible claim.Hmm..... A little research and ...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XFEqr6L ... ------Bill FrankRead this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... ___Subject: Pietenpol-List: Re: off-topic: Fairchild 51
Oh, now I get it. [Smacks self on forehead.]In that quote I read "Mater" as "Mother" (which it is, in Latin) without even thinkingabout it, so I forgot all about it being in the quote and ended up wonderingif Tow Mater did some time traveling in a Cars Toon. It seems entirelyplausible for Mater to make such an outrageously implausible claim.Hmm..... A little research and ...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XFEqr6L ... ------Bill FrankRead this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... ___Subject: Pietenpol-List: Re: off-topic: Fairchild 51
Original Posted By: "Greg Chapman"
The text string I can see in your replies ishttp://www.flickr.com/photos/9773776(at)N08/se ... 22923/This is odd:When I edited the text string in the browser window's URL field by changing the'(at)' to '@' I got an error message. However, when I copied the new text stringinto a fresh browser window with a blank URL field, it worked.http://www.flickr.com/photos/9773776@N0 ... 722923/The edited text string was exactly the same in both cases - go figure.--------Bill FrankRead this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... __________
The text string I can see in your replies ishttp://www.flickr.com/photos/9773776(at)N08/se ... 22923/This is odd:When I edited the text string in the browser window's URL field by changing the'(at)' to '@' I got an error message. However, when I copied the new text stringinto a fresh browser window with a blank URL field, it worked.http://www.flickr.com/photos/9773776@N0 ... 722923/The edited text string was exactly the same in both cases - go figure.--------Bill FrankRead this topic online here:http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.p ... __________