RAAF Radschool Association Magazine - Vol 19                                          November 2007

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Where are they now?

 Shaun Osborne wrote, “Hi there, tripped over the Radschool’s stuff whilst I was searching for some other stuff and thought you might be interested in the 36RAC site built to support a re-union in 2002. (www.cybergate9.net/36rac/). Number 36 Radio Apprentice Course (36Appy) was formed in 1982 to train as electronics technicians. Graduations took place in 1984 and in some cases these blokes have not seen each other since. I now work at the The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, (UK) been over here about four years now as am one of those honorary brits as my mother was born here... cheers Shaun”

The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." which uses every letter in the alphabet, was developed by the Western Union company to test their telex/telecommunications equipment.

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.

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