To spool up

It's not common, whatever it means. It indicates something like "get everybody informed and working"
[nq:1]I wonder also what "on the same page" means here.[/nq]
That's more common. It means that everybody is working together, on the same path, having the same understanding of the plan. We also say "singing from the same hymn sheet", which means the same thing.

David
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[nq:1]what does it mean?[/nq]
I suspect it originates with pilots of jet aircraft - the engines are said to "spool up" as they increase their rotation speed, which can take several seconds, i.e. power increase is rather gradual, as compared to a car engine.

John W Hall (Email Removed)
Cochrane, Alberta, Canada.
"Helping People Prosper in the Information Age"

[nq:2]what does it mean?[/nq]
[nq:1]I suspect it originates with pilots of jet aircraft - the engines are said to "spool up" as they increase their rotation speed, which can take several seconds, i.e. power increase is rather gradual, as compared to a car engine.[/nq]
My guess was computer related. Data is prepared and sent to the print spool.

[nq:1]That's more common. It means that everybody is working together, on the same path, having the same understanding of the plan. We also say "singing from the same hymn sheet", which means the same thing.[/nq]
I've heard "reading from the same playbook".

[nq:2]I suspect it originates with pilots of jet aircraft - ... increase is rather gradual, as compared to a car engine.[/nq]
[nq:1]My guess was computer related. Data is prepared and sent to the print spool.[/nq]
I think so. And I think it relates to the days when there were physical spools of tape containing information and programmes to run mainframes. See any 60s spy movie - the Master

Your sentence tells you the answer: spooling up brings everybody up to the same page it makes them current.
You can see the metaphor involved most clearly by thinking of two microfilm readers. You are looking at page 201 of a book on one, but the other is at page 156. You need to spool (spool = roll) the second one up to page 201 so that you are looking at the same page on both readers.

[nq:1]The person who wrote the sentence was probably thinking of print spooling on computers. That is another application of the same metaphor.[/nq]
No, I wasn't. I was mimicking a usage that has become common in the United States, particularly among quick-talking, cell-phone- and Blackberry-wielding digerati.

Mike Nitabach

[nq:2]I suspect it originates with pilots of jet aircraft - ... increase is rather gradual, as compared to a car engine.[/nq]
[nq:1]My guess was computer related. Data is prepared and sent to the print spool.[/nq]
Perhaps. I will refrain from comment on "data is". Spool was originally SPOOL:
Simultaneous Peripheral Operations On-Line
which was a print queue among other things.

[nq:2]what does it mean?[/nq]
[nq:1]I suspect it originates with pilots of jet aircraft - the engines are said to "spool up" as they increase their rotation speed, which can take several seconds, i.e. power increase is rather gradual, as compared to a car engine.[/nq]
Gee, sir, I guess it just flamed-out.
Mike.

[nq:2]My guess was computer related. Data is prepared and sent to the print spool.[/nq]
[nq:1]Perhaps. I will refrain from comment on "data is". Spool was originally SPOOL: Simultaneous Peripheral Operations On-Line which was a ... But I don't see how that suggests "get everyone up to speed", which is how I interpreted the original question.[/nq]
You're not forgetting that 'spool' was ur-o