Saturday, August 22, 2015
A wee bit of Historical knowledge for YOU.
Early
aircraft throttles had a ball on the end of it, in order to go full throttle
the pilot had to push the throttle all the way forward into the wall of the
instrument panel. Hence "balls
to the wall" for
going very fast. And now you know the rest of the story.
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