TOAK, The Thread of All Knowledge Part XIII
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After this morning, just stayed warm the rest of the day. Electrical werk in the basement, studying more useless things to know on the innernet, like...
Early aircraft throttles had a ball on the end of it, in order to go full throttle the pilot had to push the throttle all the way forward into the wall of the instrument panel. Hence "***** to the wall" for going very fast. And now you know the rest of the story.
Early aircraft throttles had a ball on the end of it, in order to go full throttle the pilot had to push the throttle all the way forward into the wall of the instrument panel. Hence "***** to the wall" for going very fast. And now you know the rest of the story.