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On Jan 26, 2009, at 11:54 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> It's easy. From Wiki we know that the Lightning had twin Rolls-Royce
> Avon 301R afterburning turbojets. Two of those are obviously equal to
> double oodles. So, single oodles are equal to the thrust of one Avon
> 301R which is 72.77 kN on afterburner. Unfortunately, we can't pin
> down
> the definition of just one oodle (vs a single oodles) since we don't
> know how many them are lumped together to form an oodles unit. My
> guess
> is that it's probably oodles of them. Got that?
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Electric_Lightning>
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
> Mike Lazzari wrote:
>>> And that has oodles, no, double oodles, of power! :-)
>>>
>>> Chris
>> Chris, could you translate those units for those of us who don't
>> use the
>> metric system :-D
>>
>> Mike
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