Runway Lighting

"Larry Dighera" wrote in message
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On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 09:21:30 -0500, "Toks Desalu"
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I still wonders why pilots call that a "rabbit." It doesn't even look
like
a rabbit.

Have you ever been to the dog races?


On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 14:31:26 -0600, "Bill Denton"
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Which takes us to trivia time...

At dog races, they use a mechanical rabbit. The mechanical rabbit was
invented in Chicago by an attorney, whose name was O'Hare.

O'Hare was in someway connected to the Capone mob. He had a son, [...}


O'Hare Airport was named after the son of "Easy Eddie" O'Hare, mobster
Al Capone's attorney (who happened to be "Butch" O'Hare, the Navy's
first fighter ace). Chicago is a notoriously lawless place.