The stock air dam on the later models works so poorly, it's more of an Air
Darn...............

Thankyou, thankyou......

Randy Bergum
1990 Carat, damless

> [Original Message]
> From: David Brodbeck <gull@CYBERSPACE.ORG>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
 > Date: 10/11/2002 6:27:02 AM
> Subject: Re: Air Dam renaming competition
>
> On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Clive Smith wrote:
>
> > fuselages - note the still common acceptance of the original French for
most
> > aircraft parts - 'fuuuwzelaaage', lovely innit, one hardly has to ask
what
> > it is. Try 'empennage' now there's another GREAT word, what would we
call
> > that now in the US, a blister - YUK!.
>
> Nah, in the US we call it a 'tail'.  Now, a nacelle we could call a
> 'blister', but we don't -- we have *some* decency.  Ailerons we just call
> ailerons, though we did bastardize it into 'flaperon' for planes with
> combined control surfaces.  What do the French call elevators and rudders?
>
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