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Re: [really OT] (was: Re: [OM] OM] OT - Titanium)

Subject: Re: [really OT] (was: Re: [OM] OM] OT - Titanium)
From: Acer Victoria <siddim01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 09:35:34 -0700 (PDT)
On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Richard Ross wrote:

>Acer wrote:
>>
>><Obligatory OM content> The Concorde's four engines are made jointly by
>>Olympus/SNECMA. So there, I tossed in "Olympus" for good measure <G>
>
><pedant mode ;-)>
>
>The Concorde's four Olympus engines were made by Rolls-Royce.  At least,
>that's what the company was called at the time :-)  I did some work on some
>of the control electronics when I was an apprentice at Lucas Aerospace.
>
></pedant mode>

Oh, sorry, forgot the Rolls-Royce bit; the /model/ is Olympus. Is there a
river by the name Olympus? Somehow it seems that RR names their engines
after rivers....

/Acer Victoria
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