strathspey@strathspey.org:44674

GOSS9@telefonica.net

Re: language influence across the Atlantic

March 13, 2006, 1:58 p.m. (Message 44674, in reply to message 44658)

Can´t comment on the antiquity of "run up" in relation to cricket, but 
it has been around the aviation trade for a long time. Most people are 
not aware of it as they are rather isolated in the modern super 
carriers. But in small planes, the "run up" is made just before 
entering the area to await take off. In this process, with the brakes 
on, the engine is tested to make sure it and all the guages are 
functioning properly. Only once in my life of 1000s of hours of flying, 
has the plane I was flying failed this test, a failure that would have 
been disaster if in the air.