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Unfortunate title here - British Aerospace was involved in the project some years ago, but Reaction Engines is a distinct company and I believe they exist despi
by timthorn 14y ago
Unfortunate title here - British Aerospace was involved in the project some years ago, but Reaction Engines is a distinct company and I believe they exist despite BAe's "assistance"
- javert 14y agoAs an American, I parsed the title as "a British aerospace company..." not "the British Aerospace company..."
- timthorn 14y agoIndeed. The capitalisation was what threw me originally, but I understand that the title isn't wrong - hence the use of "unfortunate" rather than "incorrect".
- user24 14y agoAs an Englishman, I parsed the title the same way as you did, though I did wonder if it meant BA.
- robotresearcher 14y agoBA is British Airways. BAE Systems is the new name for what used to be British Aerospace, which used BAe as its abbreviation, to avoid confusion with BA. I don't know why it bothers me, but I really dislike the used-to-be-an-acronym-but-not-any-more names. For example SRI (not affiliated with Stanford so the S doesn't mean that any more), and my least favourite "HRL Laboratories" which we have to pretend does not expand to "Hughes Research Laboratories Laboratories". Yuk.
- cadab 14y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAS_syndrome http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAS_syndrome