BUS or BUSS

[Ironflight]

Originally Posted by az_gila

Paul, how many "S" did NASA use in it's documentation when it refered to multiple busses (or buses......)?

It was usually written as "buses"....but do you really want to take grammar lessons from engineers?

[1001001]

Originally Posted by Ironflight

It was usually written as "buses"....but do you really want to take grammar lessons from engineers?

Our old joke was : "Yesturday I cudn't spel enginer and now I are one"

[laz]

Like most words we use in the US definitions can be in the eye of the beholder. I will ultimately differ to Bob Nuckolls. Allhis diagrams seem to use BUS, not BUSS. I also checked some Aircraft manuals form my previous life. For newer I used the Airbus A320 manual, they were all BUS. Just to make sure that no overseas infulence came into play I used my Convair 580 manual form 1976. again BUS. I don't know where the BUSS came from but it is defiantly in the minority.

What started this was when a friend of mine had his panel built by a very reputable firm and they used BUSS to label the avionics and main Bus/ Buss. In my every ending desire to copy/steal other peoples ideas i immediately changed mine to BUSS on the drawings. I have now changed it back.

At the end of the day all this is really good for is a argument over an adult beverage at Oshkosh. That what makes this fun.

[BillL]

Originally Posted by Ironflight

I just pulled my old Shuttle Systems Handbook off the shelf behind me to confirm what we used in the program, and the Orbiter was full of "bus's", not "buss's".......so if you want to play with the big boys....use "bus".

I just looked in my old, old, Apollo flight handbook and it said the same.

Funny, I looked up the references too, I would have sworn it was "buss", so this is my learning for today.

[laz]

According to Stein Both are correct and they have used both. Buss comes from Cooper Bussman who made electrical bus architecture popular.

According to my wife they both contain B an S and I should have never brought the subject up. Sorry

[terrykohler]

"Condition" Inspection or "Conditional" Inspection???

Is further flight determined by condition of the equipment, or is it conditional based upon the inspection? Usage seems about evenly split on the forums. Personally, "annual" seems to make more sense/cents/since.

Terry, CFI
RV9A N323TP

[SteinAir]

Indeed both are sort of industry standard jargon...and if you're paying attention you'll note we keep changing our website from Bus to Buss to Bus to Buss just to keep people on their toes! Sort of like a Gray or Grey panel!

Cheers,
Stein

[mbishop]

Originally Posted by laz

Like most words we use in the US definitions can be in the eye of the beholder. I will ultimately differ to Bob Nuckolls. Allhis diagrams seem to use BUS, not BUSS. I also checked some Aircraft manuals form my previous life. For newer I used the Airbus A320 manual, they were all BUS. Just to make sure that no overseas infulence came into play I used my Convair 580 manual form 1976. again BUS. I don't know where the BUSS came from but it is defiantly in the minority.

What started this was when a friend of mine had his panel built by a very reputable firm and they used BUSS to label the avionics and main Bus/ Buss. In my every ending desire to copy/steal other peoples ideas i immediately changed mine to BUSS on the drawings. I have now changed it back.

At the end of the day all this is really good for is a argument over an adult beverage at Oshkosh. That what makes this fun.

I had my red pen in my hand reading your post.

</Engineer Mode>

[Captain_John]

Yup, it is a bus.

Bus's would imply ownership. Buses would be plural.

CJ

[Neal@F14]

Bus.

Buss is a brand name of fuses.