[Rhodes22-list] CAUTION, Silly Political Stuff
Mike Leone
mike.leone at att.net
Tue May 27 21:02:42 EDT 2003
Brad,
APU talk got me to thinking...
Are you getting a big microwave oven for the new boat? If the mechanics at
work could hook you up with a surplus, small APU and an air cycle machine,
you would have plenty of electricity for the oven and lots of cold air for
those hot, humid summer days.
Mike
At 04:33 PM 5/27/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>Last night leaving Oakland we had a really good laugh
>(and its hard to find things to laugh about at 2am).
>Jet engines are started using compressed air from an
>auxillary power unit on board. If the APU is inop you
>have to use a ground based "huffer" unit which is kind
>of like the "mother of all air-compressors". All of
>our planes are named after children of employees but
>none of the ground equipment is labeled with anything
>other than an ID number. The huffer we used last
>night had a name on it in bold, bright letters.
>
>"MONICA"
>
>Brad
>
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