Re: [MBZ] Pavement, etc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So why is it when the TV newsreaders are breathlessly recounting some minor happening at the local flugplatz (mandatory MB talk), they always blather about the TARMAC. All the pavement (excluding the runways, one assumes) is tarmac tarmac tarmac. Yes, I know, short for tar macadam. So what? It's bleeding asphalt. Just a guess: A lot of aviation terminology comes from Europe. That's why we have so many French words: fuselage, nacelle, aileron, empennage. Tarmac strikes me as a potential Britishism that migrated over here. I have to say, though, that outside news reports I rarely hear tarmac. It seems like to pilots, if it's a paved surface, it's either a runway, a taxiway, or the ramp.
Re: [MBZ] Pavement, etc.
Yes, I know, short for tar macadam. So what? It's bleeding asphalt. Technically, 'asphalt' doesn't include the rocks. Tar macadam does. QED. (Or is that OED?) -- Jim
Re: [MBZ] Pavement, etc.
I have talked to a few people that would love to try out the glycerin on there cement driveways. You might get stuck in a cement driveway but if you just add water, sand and gravel and stir, voilaconcrete. Yes, you are correct, people generally have concrete driveways, wiseguy. This brings up a burning question that has been keeping me up nights of late. The street in front of my house, as one example, is a material made at the asphalt plant. Sometimes call blacktop, or chipseal (cheap and dirty) or asphalt. So why is it when the TV newsreaders are breathlessly recounting some minor happening at the local flugplatz (mandatory MB talk), they always blather about the TARMAC. All the pavement (excluding the runways, one assumes) is tarmac tarmac tarmac. Yes, I know, short for tar macadam. So what? It's bleeding asphalt. What did I do with those little yellow ones? RLE
Re: [MBZ] Pavement, etc.
On Mar 5, 2006, at 1:07 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What did I do with those little yellow ones? RLE Send me a few when you find them. Oy! Johnny B. I Mac Therefore I am
