RE: lolmoH

["rItlhmoQSuvwI'" <rItlhmoQ@hotmail.com>]

DopDaq qul yIchenmoH QobDI' ghu'.

rItlhmoQSuvwI'
Stardate 2528.8

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Qov [mailto:qov@direct.ca] 
> Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 09:36
> To: tlhIngan-Hol@kli.org
> Subject: Re: lolmoH
> 
> 
> As a professional pilot, flight instructor, and the person 
> for whom Maltz 
> provided this word, I feel quite qualified to explain this word.
> 
> The attitude of an airplane is its orientation with respect to the 
> horizon.  It is explicitly independent of its angle of 
> attack, direction of 
> travel, speed, or whether or not the pilot takes instructions well.
> 
> In English we define four basic attitudes: cruise, nose up, 
> nose down, and 
> banked.  I have to go to work now, but will explain further 
> when I return.
> 
> Altitude is how high the airplane is, the Klingon word is 'Iv, and in 
> English you are "at an altitude."
> 
> >Attitude when referring to aircraft flight is the angle of 
> attack and 
> >direction of flight... whether the craft is pointed up or down (also 
> >referred to as 'pitch') but where pitch is strictly which 
> direction the 
> >nose is pointing, attitude also takes into account the 
> actual DIRECTION 
> >of flight.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: SIqar [mailto:SIqar@icqmail.com]
> > > Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 07:57
> > > To: tlhIngan-Hol@kli.org
> > > Subject: RE: lolmoH
> > >
> > >
> > > Is that attitude or altitude?
> > >
> > > To be in an attitude, (to fly in a attitude) what does 
> that mean, to 
> > > fly like you have an attitude?
> > >
> > > or to be 'in' an altitude, is that meant to be 'at' an altitude?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > >-----Original Message-----
> > > >From: Quvar valer [mailto:levinius@gmx.de]
> > > >Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 8:16 PM
> > > >To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
> > > >Subject: lolmoH
> > > >
> > > >lolmoH
> > > >(v) maneuver (an aircraft) to be in an attitude [canon: qughmeH 
> > > >Duch
> > > vIlolmoH]
> > > >[HolQeD v11n2p8] (Added: 11
> > > >July 2002)
> > > >
> > > >Should this canon not be
> > > >{qughmeH Duj vIlolmoH}
> > > >"I maneuver the aircraft to be at a cruising attitude"
> > > >(in order to cruise, I cause the aircraft to be at an attitude)
> > > >
> > > >instead of *Duch*?
> > > >Or is this a new word I haven't heard of??
> > > >
> > > >Quvar.
> > > >
> > >
>