"Clear Prop!" in Mandarin

Any zhongwen speaking ppl over here?
How do you call out "Clear prop!" in Mandarin when you mean "Keep away
from the prop -- I'm starting the engine." Used as a standard phrase
when flying small planes (Cessna, YAK, etc). Don't ask me why I need
this. I do! It's a principle! :-)

On 25 Aug 2004 17:52:21 -0700, (Darkstar) wrote:

Don't ask me why I need
this. I do! It's a principle! :-)


Well, I'm askin'!

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On 25 Aug 2004 17:52:21 -0700, (Darkstar) wrote:

Don't ask me why I need
this. I do! It's a principle! :-)


Well, I'm askin'!

Me too! You can't post something like that without giving a good
reason : )

Maybe you're planning a world circumnavigate in a C152? Or perhaps a
Mathias Rust in Tiananmen Square? Or even another EP-3 incident? The
possibilies...now I've gotten all curious....

-lance smith

It's amazing you remember Mathias Rust's name. I was in high school when he
did his thing and I've never forgotten his name. I so admired the balls of
the whole thing that it made an indelible mark on my mind. I thought I was
the only one!

Shawn
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On 25 Aug 2004 17:52:21 -0700, (Darkstar) wrote:

Don't ask me why I need
this. I do! It's a principle! :-)


Well, I'm askin'!

Me too! You can't post something like that without giving a good
reason : )

Maybe you're planning a world circumnavigate in a C152? Or perhaps a
Mathias Rust in Tiananmen Square? Or even another EP-3 incident? The
possibilies...now I've gotten all curious....

-lance smith

Darkstar wrote:
Don't ask me why I need
this. I do! It's a principle! :-)

My guess is that you have a hot date with someone from Beijing and want
to impress them.

Try the tools at:
http://babelfish.altavista.com
http://www.mandarintools.com

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:39:22 GMT, "ShawnD2112"
wrote:

It's amazing you remember Mathias Rust's name. I was in high school when he
did his thing and I've never forgotten his name. I so admired the balls of
the whole thing that it made an indelible mark on my mind. I thought I was
the only one!

Shawn
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On 25 Aug 2004 17:52:21 -0700, (Darkstar) wrote:

Don't ask me why I need
this. I do! It's a principle! :-)


Well, I'm askin'!

Me too! You can't post something like that without giving a good
reason : )

Maybe you're planning a world circumnavigate in a C152? Or perhaps a
Mathias Rust in Tiananmen Square? Or even another EP-3 incident? The
possibilies...now I've gotten all curious....

-lance smith

I remember Mathias Rust well enough to know that it was Red Square.
Rich Russell

I asked my son, who speaks Mandarin. He said, "The only thing that comes to
mind immediately would be dzou kai. Which basically means 'get away'."

"Darkstar" wrote in message
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Any zhongwen speaking ppl over here?
How do you call out "Clear prop!" in Mandarin when you mean "Keep away
from the prop -- I'm starting the engine." Used as a standard phrase
when flying small planes (Cessna, YAK, etc). Don't ask me why I need
this. I do! It's a principle! :-)

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On 25 Aug 2004 17:52:21 -0700, (Darkstar) wrote:

Don't ask me why I need
this. I do! It's a principle! :-)


Well, I'm askin'!


Uh, what's the point, you don't know anyway.

"Richard Russell" wrote in message
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I remember Mathias Rust well enough to know that it was Red Square.

If you'd read the thread more carefully, you'd see that Lance did not say
that Rust landed in Red Square, but instead was proposing a hypothesis (of
several) for why one would need to know what "clear prop!" is in Mandarin.

His tongue was clearly in-cheek, by the way. In case you also failed to
pick up on that.

Pete

I also remember Rust's name since the landing!

Wonder if they let him taxi and take off from the red square again after
doing his time in jail....

:-)

Frode



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"Richard Russell" wrote in message
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I remember Mathias Rust well enough to know that it was Red Square.

If you'd read the thread more carefully, you'd see that Lance did not say
that Rust landed in Red Square, but instead was proposing a hypothesis (of
several) for why one would need to know what "clear prop!" is in Mandarin.

His tongue was clearly in-cheek, by the way. In case you also failed to
pick up on that.

Pete