I heard Alex Witt describe how the allied
paratroopers in the predawn hours jumped from "Lancaster jets." There's
just no end to the amazement!

Just as "tarmac" has come to mean "surface airplanes operate on", so
is "jet" coming to mean "airplane".

In that awful best-seller of recent months "Flyboys", the author
speaks of how aircraft carriers are dangerous, what with the jet fuel
spilled on the deck among other hazards.

(About tarmac: in one of the Vietnam books, the author spoke of how
the U.S. Marines pulled up the "tarmac" and took it with them when
they abandoned Khe Sahn. I was really puzzled by this until I worked
it out that he was talking about Marston matting, not chunks of
asphalt.)


all the best -- Dan Ford
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