Do You Speak Lingua Scientifica? by tallpindo
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I registered my truck as a commercial vehicle in 1967 and it held that plate until I sold it to a scrap yard in 1976. My plan was to be able to park in loading zones and other privileges of a commercial plate. My wife drove the truck onto the yard of Jorgensen Metals when she was pregnant in 1969,with her second son, Geoffrey. She named her sons these olde English names because she believed her heritage to be English, Irish, and Welsh with a bit of Cherokee. At the yard, the supervisor allowed her to drive to the warehouse where a 4 foot by 8-foot sheet of 4130 specification Chrome-molybdenum steel was stored and have it loaded. In this way, she took over the idea and travelled back to when her father had owned facilities in old military airfields in Childress and Lubbock, Texas. The name also became fixed later in Death Valley at the Furnace Creek Inn when she got locked in her stall in the lady’s room and was let out by Christine Jorgensen, the famous transvestite. After she and her two sons travelled to the Netherlands and met some people in Amsterdam she went to work for an agricultural importer named Fratelli farms that flew in ripened on the vine hydroponic tomatoes. The Boeing 767 in United livery competed for the business with the McDonnell-Douglas MD-11 in Martin Air Charter (MAC) livery. The flights sometimes originated in London, UK and ended at the new Denver International Airport. My youngest son Geoffrey then checked in the goods and completed the importation and customs forms and scheduled the trucks to take the items to cold storage and then to grocery stores in the area for demonstrators and to stock for sale. This was a continuation of a job my then ex-wife obtained at Palm Beach Frozen selling frozen vegetables for a firm whose Mercedes-Benz imported trucks had become unusable from inadequate and insufficient maintenance. That time was in the late 70’s to early 80’s. She saw it as a distraction for her real desire to sell liquor. The whole enterprise collapsed eventually when the master mind tried to capture the Florida raspberry crop after forays into Mexican pottery retail where my son worked and a last gasp in importing of olives from Spain in barrels. Where was I? Did you see the Skyhawk post? In 1967, the year I bought my truck, Egypt and Israel went to war and the French broke off as suppliers of military equipment. This provided an opening for the Skyhawk which was equipped with the DEFA 30mm cannon from the Mirage III’s the Israelis had used so devastatingly in the Gita and Mitla passes against Egyptian armor. I was not involved with the A-4H at the time. Later when the improved Skyhawk for the Marines was developed I heard insider news based on the A-4N for Israel that was based on the A-4M. Other than some comments on boresighting the system I heard nothing on what became the Angle Rate Bombing System or ARBS used on the Harrier after 1969 as well as the A-4M. The Israelis developed their own ECM for the pod on the back of the later A-4’s. Representatives to Israel travelled to provide engineering consultation and I heard mostly about lack of English skills. My own assistance to Engineering of a translation nature consisted of converting English measurement terms to metric because Physicists use centimeter gram second (cgs) and not the Meter Kilogram Second (MKS) System International (SI) propagating to Canada and England and elsewhere. Without confusing my readers, I can say that SI appeared in even US automobile engine capacities as taxable horsepower ratings overseas vanished and the DIN German ratings replaced SAE and capacities ceased to be quoted in cubic inches and began to appear mostly for compacts and subcompacts in cubic centimeters or liters. Partly because Congress never adopted the SI designations nationally the US gas turbine establishment did not convert to metric and all measurements I used in the 1980’s were in English units. As an aside, the 284 cubic inches of an English Imperial gallon as used in Canada and the UK before this time is almost equal to the 283 cubic inches of a small block Chevrolet V-8 displacement. The one cubic inch difference might be dismissed if not that the 239 cubic inches of a 1942-1953 Ford V-8 was exactly equal to the 239 cubic inches of a Queen Ann or standard gallon in the USA.
Comments (5)
eekdog
Never! Nice pov.
giulband
Incredible words very long and complex stories !1
MagikUnicorn
BEAUTY
A_Sunbeam
Yes, they took the old Wine Gallon with them to America, where 'the pint weighs a pound the world around'. The Imperial standard gallon was redefined after the Houses of Parliament burnt down, and was rated 10 lbs; which made our pint weigh a pound and a quarter.
jocko500
wonderful