A store clerk asked me to do a survey.

airboatr · Post by **airboatr** » 28 Nov 2018, 02:31

I didn't want to ... so i said.

I didn't bring my transit with me.
..........................
Blank look.

..I kept walking.

simondix · Post by **simondix** » 28 Nov 2018, 07:48

Quite a few people would. But not on this site

Airspeed · Post by **Airspeed** » 28 Nov 2018, 10:00

Joe, I used to drive a Ford Transit van, in fact I drove it from Melbourne to Perth.
Obviously your transit is something else.
Would you please explain.

Paul K · Post by **Paul K** » 28 Nov 2018, 10:37

airboatr wrote: ↑
28 Nov 2018, 02:31

Blank look.

Ditto

airboatr · Post by **airboatr** » 28 Nov 2018, 12:40

Oh Sorry.

Land surveyors use transits. To survey the land..
Other peoples, who speak-ed de Engwish, might call them a total station..

Which is totally foriegn to me.

we're a fine lot aren't we..

Tako_Kichi · Post by **Tako_Kichi** » 28 Nov 2018, 16:37

More commonly known as a theodolite in the UK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodolite

The US 'transit' is apparently a variation of a theodolite, trust them to be different eh!

FlyTexas · Post by **FlyTexas** » 28 Nov 2018, 19:45

And here I thought theodolite was an element in the periodic table.

Brian

Dev One · Post by **Dev One** » 28 Nov 2018, 21:31

airboatr wrote: ↑
28 Nov 2018, 12:40
Oh Sorry.

Land surveyors use transits. To survey the land..
Other peoples, who speak-ed de Engwish, might call them a total station..

Which is totally foriegn to me.

we're a fine lot aren't we..

In France a Total station is where one fills ones vehicle with the essential fluid to keep it going!

TobyV · Post by **TobyV** » 28 Nov 2018, 21:35

Read the joke, scrolled down to the Wikipedia link, saw the picture, re-read the joke. Now I get it

For me, as Mike said, a Transit is a Ford van - "the backbone of Britain" as the advert used to say. Until they closed the factory and moved production to Turkey of course. Small fact to bring us almost on-topic, the Ford Transit factory used to be the Cunliffe Owen aircraft factory and was only cut off from Southampton Airport by the building of the M27 motorway in the early 1980s. The flight test hangar from which K5054, the very first Supermarine Spitfire emerged was also part of the site and survived the closure and demolition of the Ford plant, although appears to have been re-clad in rather non-period corrugated metal panels according to the latest Google imagery.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrZHJfdnIIA

Cunliffe-Owen / Ford Transit plant, Supermarine flight test shed to the left with pale door:
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/resources/i ... fullscreen

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/4778 ... splant.jpg

TobyV · Post by **TobyV** » 28 Nov 2018, 21:35

Dev One wrote: ↑
28 Nov 2018, 21:31
In France a Total station is where one fills ones vehicle with the essential fluid to keep it going!

Funnily enough exactly what I thought!

Classic British Flight Sim

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