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CaveatEmpty

Dec 14, 2007 4:52 pm

Missing a 'flapper' ??

Make that a 12-foot flapper !! www.wpxi.com/news/14854225/ ~ with photo goodness.

:speechless:
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CPRich

Dec 14, 2007 9:36 pm

A "flapper"? Part of a wing? An "airport official" described is as a flapper? I'm no pilot, but I've never heard of a flapper, other than a valve inside the fuel tanks.

WPXI managed to refer to it as a flap, a rudder, and a flapper, all within 6 sentences. Do they have Fedko writing news stories now....:p

altaskier

Dec 15, 2007 3:28 am

Flapper
Noun
1. informal (in the 1920s) a fashionable young woman intent on enjoying herself and flouting conventional standards of behavior.
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An airplane that loses a flapper is less fun to fly on.

sobore

Dec 15, 2007 7:02 am

I just replaced the flapper in my toilet tank.
Was the official who described this older than 5?

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