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Re: [SLE] [OT...sort of]Hardcopy or electronic books?
  • From: "Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 13:03:08 +0000 (UTC)
  • Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0511251347330.8255@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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The Thursday 2005-11-24 at 20:10 -0500, James Knott wrote:

> >>> Having a long history with document imaging and storage systems, I ended up
> >>> one time in a discussion about five years ago with one of the guys who was
> >>> maintaining the records for the U-2 project, which at the time was still
> >>> ongoing.
> >
> > Sorry, I don't know what U-2 is :-?
>
> You mean you've never heard of U2 or BONO???

A musical group, but not my kind of music :-p

I didn't know what was u-2 in the context we were talking, I didn't
remember the plane.

> Actually, the U2 is a spy plane first built by Lockheed, back in the
> '50, with later versions still flying for research as well.

I heard that it leaks a lot of oil while at "low" altitudes, till it gets
to the altitude and temperature for which it was designed. Funny I
remember that.

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Cheers,
Carlos Robinson

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