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Offline Kelpex

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Playing hangman with non aviators.
« on: February 07, 2011, 11:54:00 PM »
Is it wrong of me to throw around words such as dihedral and empennage during a game of hangman, just to confuse those who think they know everything?

What would have to be the most confusing, sounding, aviation terms you guys have come across?
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Offline Mike

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Re: Playing hangman with non aviators.
« Reply #1 on: February 08, 2011, 01:51:17 AM »
heh heh, nice! never thought of doing that!  ;D ::bow::

hows about:

aileron, Gyroscopic Precession, magneto, inclinometer, and interpolation ? ?
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Re: Playing hangman with non aviators.
« Reply #2 on: February 08, 2011, 02:59:52 AM »
Or how about the

a.  trans-warp discriminator valve
b.  Cardinal Grameters
c.  prefamulated amulite
d.  hydrocoptic masal vanes
e.  panandermic novatrunions

Get more here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLDgQg6bq7o

And actually a real one:  Teroidal flow
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Re: Playing hangman with non aviators.
« Reply #3 on: February 08, 2011, 03:54:23 AM »
propwash
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Offline meganite

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Re: Playing hangman with non aviators.
« Reply #4 on: February 08, 2011, 04:36:07 AM »
Not if they're throwing around words like microfilament, adenosine triphosphate, dysteleological physicalism, and voronoi noise ;)
If the best they can think up is hippopotamus, then I think you're out of their league ... if even "aileron" confounds them, then ... well, use your judgment ;)
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Offline Jupiter

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Re: Playing hangman with non aviators.
« Reply #5 on: February 08, 2011, 08:31:38 AM »
Aeroelasticitymatrix?
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Re: Playing hangman with non aviators.
« Reply #6 on: February 08, 2011, 11:56:56 AM »
Unless its a helo pilot your playing against....then use cat, dog, etc.....
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Re: Playing hangman with non aviators.
« Reply #7 on: February 08, 2011, 12:51:14 PM »
Found this glossary of aviation terms that might help:

http://aviationhumor.net/glossary-of-aviation-terms/
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Re: Playing hangman with non aviators.
« Reply #8 on: February 08, 2011, 10:42:05 PM »
Wow, I just realised there are real words in aviation. I always taught we were speaking only with acronyms.
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Offline Mike

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Re: Playing hangman with non aviators.
« Reply #9 on: February 09, 2011, 02:15:02 AM »
Quote from: vldflight on February 08, 2011, 11:56:56 AM
Unless its a helo pilot your playing against....then use cat, dog, etc.....

ouch, that's cold!  ::complaining:

....but probably true. just seen it yesterday with the guy I flew with actually, good stick but couldn't do simple math as in "how much is 2600lbs plus 800lbs?" . . .
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Re: Playing hangman with non aviators.
« Reply #10 on: February 09, 2011, 10:47:04 AM »
is the answer a window Mike?  ::thinking::
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Re: Playing hangman with non aviators.
« Reply #11 on: February 10, 2011, 02:02:51 AM »
Hey, I can't do simple math either  :P And I'm a programmer! (What do you think we invented computers for? ;) )

I could add numbers like that, but it might take me a while... I think in pictures. Hey, maybe if I wrote it down first. Then again, there's this nifty website I found for practicing math, I might just get better at it. http://www.thatquiz.org/tq-1/

This might explain things... http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1356
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Offline Jupiter

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Re: Playing hangman with non aviators.
« Reply #12 on: February 10, 2011, 06:45:38 AM »
have to admit I use a calculator for almost everything these days, but addition and subtraction are usually not (yet) a problem :P
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Re: Playing hangman with non aviators.
« Reply #13 on: March 02, 2011, 02:23:28 AM »
Here's one I learned in structures class today.

End-fixity.

I'll double-check the spelling, but it is a term we learned today. Not so big and boisterous, but people will still wonder if it's really a word!
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