Missing a 'flapper' ??
Dec 14, 2007 | 4:52 pm
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Missing a 'flapper' ??
Dec 14, 2007 | 9:36 pm
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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....
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....
Dec 15, 2007 | 3:28 am
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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.
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.
