Re: [TML] Looking for a word to replace "General Aviation" Amber Witherspoon 28 Aug 2017 08:35 UTC
Apologies Tom, I have a hard time not trying to attach unique identifiers to every Tom I know (along with Dick and Harry, but I strangely know very few of those). And most of my coworkers, since it wastes time to yell for the guy in charge of lighting and get the forklift and the supervisor... (speaking of which, Jeff who shares a name with one of my supervisors, coworkers, and a random lighting designer with... I can't remember which tour - that article on stagehands is being written. Slowly.) Stationary orbit is usually taken to mean geosynch. Beanstalks kind of require being very near or directly on the equator (which can be kind of hard). Most of my experience comes from a highschool I spent a short time at, which focused entirely on preparation for airport ground crew training (and was literally right next door to an active airport). General Aviation was the technical term (and they were lucky to get a maintenance shop with their hanger space if they paid for it), and - as such - was never used by the people on the ground. It was Public/General, Passenger, and Freight/Cargo. So there's that, and I don't know what perspective Peter is writing his story from. So I was kind of serious when I said General Parking. We already know that ships are docked in Parkbays at the downport, it does kind of make sense.... On 8/28/17, B Kruger <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote: > What about "non-primary down port"? > > Brett > > On 28 Aug 2017 05:43, "Peter L. Berghold" <xxxxxx@berghold.net> wrote: > >> In some writing I was doing I am describing a portion of star port >> where instead of large corporation berthing this area is where non- >> corporate ships craft and smaller starships capable of making landfall >> would be berthed. This would be every type of berthing from a piece of >> tarmack to a walled off area with a lockable gate (hatch?) registered >> to the craft's owner. >> >> In today's terms that would be (at least in my mind) the General >> Aviation section of an airport. >> >> Anybody have a word that is an equivalent that they use for such? >> Right now in the story I'm writing I'm using General Aviation as a >> placehodler until I find a better term. >> >> -- >> >> >> Peter L. Berghold <xxxxxx@berghold.net> >> Professonally: IT Professional (DevOps, Puppet, Perl...) >> Advocations: Dog Training, Beer Brewing, BBQ, Cooking >> >> ----- >> The Traveller Mailing List >> Archives at http://archives.simplelists.com/tml >> Report problems to xxxxxx@simplelists.com >> To unsubscribe from this list please go to >> http://archives.simplelists.com >> > ----- > The Traveller Mailing List > Archives at http://archives.simplelists.com/tml > Report problems to xxxxxx@simplelists.com > To unsubscribe from this list please go to > http://www.simplelists.com/confirm.php?u=DZZu00eGt8rDmt14P7liTVEolKKLZVUJ