01-24-2009, 04:31 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Chas Russell
Folks,
I have been flying model rockets since 1967 and am not a BAR. My NAR number is 9790, which may not impress a lot of people, but I like to think it shows some experience.
I have always heard from day one "cato" as a catastrophic failure. No messing with acronyms or making up explainations. Simply put, it blowed up...it blowed up real good.
Anyone can take a few letters and figure out a reasonable explaination. But cato is really just a short way of saying it didn't work.
Let us proceed to discuss really important stuff.
Chas
Charles Has Acute Sense
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Thank You Chas! That's the way I understood it as well. Joined in 1962
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