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Hi RASAM,

two questions:

  • You changed "Occasionally, the Bundeswehr lands with transport aircraft" to "Occasionally, a Bundeswehr transport aircraft lands". This changes the meaning, now implying that they use just one aircraft at a time, which is not backed by any source I know
  • The new image caption "The Malmsheim SAR helicopter from the University of Tübingen’s teaching hospital on a mission" – this seems to imply the helicopter somehow belongs to the teaching hospital, which is wrong.

--dealerofsalvation 16:50, 31 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]


I changed the 'transport aircraft' sentence because the original sounded rather clumsy, i.e. 'lands with'. I would be rather surprised if the Bundeswehr lands more than one aircraft at a time there; pilot/aircrew training maybe? But I take your point about the edit changing the meaning. If the airfield was closer to home I would visit it and find out how often they use the site. Unfortunately, I live in northern Germany so its a non-starter.

As far as the image caption is concerned, I tried to edit it because "Lift-off of the Malmsheim SAR helicopter...after a mission" sounded rather strange to me. Germany hasn't got much of a space programme, but when I read the phrase 'lift-off' I thought things had changed and maybe Malmsheim was trying to rival NASA! Also, 'after a mission' didn't seem right. Although it does say "The Malmsheim SAR helicopter from the University of Tübingen’s teaching hospital...". I guess the caption needs looking at again. Regards RASAM (talk) 20:56, 31 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

On the image caption, I now inserted "takes off". Does the sentence make more sense to you too now? As I understand the German image description, the helicopter has rescued some injured person somewhere, has flown him to the hospital, then took off again to get back to the home base, when the photo was made. Maybe that helps you to judge whether it’s right to talk of "after the mission".
About the number of aircraft, I will look for sources again. After all, it's a very rare occasion – I’ve been living 1 km off the field for four years and never noticed such an event. --dealerofsalvation 11:39, 1 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I did get the information from the gliding club’s web site: [1] (German, I try to give a literal translation) "The owner is the 'Bund' [which may mean either the federal government or the Bundeswehr] to e. g. occasionally land with a Noratlas or similar". As the Nord Noratlas is long out of service, I changed this to "transport aircraft", however it may mean that the information is just outdated. As the sentence sounds rather uncertain anyway, I suggest to cut out the sentence. Any objection? --dealerofsalvation 01:35, 6 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Regarding the question in the previous sentence, none whatsoever. RASAM (talk) 15:23, 17 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]


'presented/developed'

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"In 1994, the automotive component manufacturer Bosch presented the electronic stability control (ESC) system on Malmsheim Airfield."
This sentence appears at the end of the 'Post War' section. I think a better word than 'presented' would be 'developed'; as my dictionary defines 'present' thus: "in place in question; here; now existing, occuring, being dealt with, etc." Not exactly suitable is it? RASAM (talk) 15:23, 17 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No, Bosch didn't "develop" the ESC there – the development centre ;) at Malmsheim is yet to be built. "present" is a verb as well, in the sense of "performing a presentation", cf. wikt:present#Verb and the sample sentence there. Mayby you prefer "reveal", or wikt:showcase#Verb, or wikt:introduce#Verb item #2. That's all fine by me, or do you have any other suggestions? --dealerofsalvation 21:19, 17 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
How about 'unveilled'? RASAM (talk) 23:01, 22 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
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