Why must I wait for an hour for nothing?

[Primer]

Being a Chevy owner (for the second time), I give Ford grief just out of principle. But my undying hatred is reserved for Dodge. When I was looking for a replacement for my first Chevy Blazer, I considered Ford Explorers, Jeeps Cherokees and Liberty's, Toyota 4Runners, Nissan Pathfinders, and of course Chevy Blazers. NOT Dodge Durangos.

All I have to say about Dodge Durangos: I'm alive!

I was rear ended by a Mack truck while I was sitting in line at a red light in my husband's '99 Durango. He had to have been doing about 50 mph when he hit me. The rear end crumpled; the front end crumpled; the engine stopped at the firewall, thank goodness! The cabin remained relatively intact. The engineering saved my life. I hated that truck, but I'm glad I was in it instead of my little Nissan Frontier at the time.

[Bliss]

With all the acronym fun you reminded me one I usually don't tell because most my friends speak spanish and it's not possible to translate it.

This was told to me by a friend who worked in United Airlines, you see there was a problem with Airbus airplanes in which most or all models had two engines only, making them legaly limited for transatlantic travel, since loss of one engine meant a dangerous loss of push for the airplane. So Airbuses weren't used for transatlantic flights for that reason.

Enventually the FAA came up with a legal extension called E.T.O.P.S. Which stood for Extended-range Twin-engine Operated System, it's basically a new regulation that opens most covered area of the world to two engined airplanes which comply with strict technological restrictions by extending the rage in minutes from a large airport these planes where allowed to deviate from.

Anyhow, this friend of mine told me that at UA they used to call ETOPS: Engines Turn, Or People Swim.

It seems it stuck as a normal interpretation of the acronym, lol: ETOPS