A 'Mickle manoeuvre' is a descriptive term for an easy task, usually related to something within information technology, specifically networking and usually to enhance the reputation of simplicity and success rate of the task in hand. It describes something that is simple to do with two free hands and is accompanied by a gesture of two hands pushing and pulling as if working with network cabling. It has grown with use and is now also used to describe any simple manoeuvre with little risk of failure. The term may have been coined from a Nasa article regarding Helicopter Simulations co-authored by Marlin H. Mickle http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19880016993_1988016993.pdf
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