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Gemini Sparkle

Key Takeaways:

  • During a Young Eagles flight, an 8-year-old girl humorously misidentified the "rotating beacon" switch as "rotting bacon."
  • The pilot, initially confused, found the child's misunderstanding amusing.
  • The pilot intends to adopt the child's term, "rotting bacon," for the aircraft switch from now on.
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On a Young Eagles flight recently, the 8-year-old girl sitting in the right seat asked me what why I had a switch for “rotting bacon.” Confused, I asked her to point to it. Then I said, “Oh, that’s for the rotating beacon!”

I’m going to use that term from now on.


Rich Oleszczuk
via e-mail

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