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12-04-2003 | 11:57 AM

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RE: Flaperons?

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ORIGINAL: combatpigg

TIGGERINVA! Howdy! I just looked in my WEBSTERS" and also checked my TIME-LIFE aviation encyclopia and FLAPERON is not even a word, the term only exists in the minds of those who fly toy airplanes. It drives me nuts when people over react to such trivial junk. If it bothers you this much, you have one heck of a huge crusade facing you, because I'm not the only person who expects to see the elevator coupled when I switch to flaperon mode. I'll bet your dictionary lists AINT as a word also.

I guess the Airforce TO (technical order) for the F-4E phantom has been using a word that doesnt exist for a long time. [sm=rolleyes.gif]

Here is a link from American Heritage Dictionary, Aeronautics section, Flaperon;

[link=http://www.bartleby.com/61/67/F0166750.html]FLAPERON[/link]

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