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FLAV: Flightline avionics
Load Toad or Loadie: Weapons
Tire Kickers/Booger Hookers: Crew chief
RAMROD: Flightline Supervision
AMRAAM: AIM-120
Sidewinder: AIM-9
Willie Pete: White Phospherus 2.75" rocket
Gun: M61A1 Vulcan cannon
Mav: AGM-65
HARM: AGM-88
-70: -60 + C-10
JDAM: pronounced jaydam, any of the GBU-38 or GBU-31 GPS guided bombs
WCMD: pronounced wickham d, any of the CBU-103 and above bomblet dispensers
SMS: F%$^!!!
MFL: S*!@!!!
Troubleshoot: digging deep in the -94FI
Shooting wires: digging deep in the WD

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How about this stuff, I don't even know the real names:

Spider harness tool to initially service the LG struts, or cable connection on the PW engine.
Cross over cables the cables for checking the ISA
Halon bottle fire bottle/ 300lb extinguisher
Noner most people that work in a office.
-60 generator set. what is it m832-60 generator set, man where are my CDC when I need them.
70 set -60 and a C10
Bunny suit intake suit, i don't know the actual name for it.
Getting short about to leave, ether TDY ends or PCS
Leak and sceak leak and transfer checks.
Bumber pads the ruber pads that stop the NLG wheel from spinning.
Line turn over turn over tool at the aircraft.
Pett for installing o-ring or seals.
T handle JFS pump handle.

How many of you got your troops to try and find a yard of Flight Line? or P.E.P. type S.I.? some K-9 P.E.E.

How about forms made up words/acronyms, Those count? Like: PNL, Inst, OPs Ck, IFOC, REQ, C/W, Temp, QVI, IPI, MLG,NLG, CB

I think is funny, we use this terms every day, and they are so hard to remember them when trying to write about them.

aggressor267 wrote:

"Put it to bed" when you do your Bpo/Pr at the end of the day.

On that note, I once had a pro super named Otha, Anyway he was alway telling us when we put the jet to bed to button up all the access panels so with that it became "Othatizing the jet"

Destro wrote:

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aggressor267 wrote:
"Put it to bed" when you do your Bpo/Pr at the end of the day.

Just want to be sure -the exact defination of Bpo/pr at the end of the mission.
Are we talking about the maintainance such as hydraulic fluid replenishment done prior to locking down the Viper after the end of scheduled operations? Please advise. TIA.
Hugh Gilmartin

That would be follwed by "Wake the jet up", usually the next morning.

The BPO/PR is completed at the End of the Flying Day, Normally... Sometimes it can be just a BPO if you know the aircraft is not scheduled to fly again for a couple days. In between flights is the Thru-Flight inspection or TH. At the beginning of the flying day again normally a WAI or Walk around Inspection is accomplished. Again this all depends on the Command, the country, or Air Force and a bunch of other reasons. I have worked for 3 militarys now and have seen every possible and impossible combination no matter what the 00 20 says.
AZ

Speed Brakes are called BOARDS

Shortcut wrote:

The external wing tanks were known as 370s because they held 370 gallons of fuel.

AKA "Wing Bags". And the 300 was also called the Centerline Bag.

Goggs - night vision goggles
Fat finger - pilot inputing data via the Up Front Control
Give it back to the taxpayers - pilot ejecting
Go Cold Mike - pilot telling the backseater to turn off his microphone so the pilot doesn't have to hear backseater breathe/talk/puke/etc. Can also be told to crewchief during ground ops that pilot has to turn on microphone to talk
Brain bag -pilot's helmet bag
Tool kit - pilots bag for carrying DTCs and tapes
Window - Canopy
Blow the Canopy - pilot terminology for describing emergency jettison of the canopy. However "blow the window" would never be used
Heavyweights - bombs that are at least 500 pounds
Practice bombs - actual inert practice bombs weighing 25 pounds
Squeeze off a round - farting
Racehorse - Term used to tell backseater or flight members that number 1 is being conducted
Strapped in - term used to say pilot shoulder harness/lap belt is connected
Going super - exceeding the speed of sound
Burning worms - flying low and fast
Noseplugs - screw on more aerodynamic part of heavyweight inert bombs in lieu of a fuse[/b]

BROWN BEAR - In-Flt brevity comm for saying an intestinal incident occurred (usually under Gs).
This almost always results in a sortie cut short, much ridicule, a new callsign, a lot of beer to MX and an
unpleasant shameful cleaning duty for the offender. Hope to never have to say it.

The large ESC hose refered to as the Anaconda

I thought Eielson's fuel barn was the black hole? I hate to admit this one, but eielson aircraft are tundra darts and the bays where all the broke aircraft go is the bay of pigs

My favorite F-16 slang word is Viper. It just has that thing to it.

Beer Can = Cabin Temp Sensor Controller

A few others I thought about:

- Petrolatum=splooge (used to lube up fuel tubes on external tanks)
- R2=remove and replace
- G2G=good to go (the jets fixed)
- Shoot the tube=intake inspection
- Ghostbuster=metal, portable water pack for cold water rinse
- OFO=Out F**king Off (nowhere to be found)
- Balls XX=a jet with double zeros in the tail # (as 0042 or balls 42)
- [Link pending approval], Water and Trash (fleet in the heavy world)
- Friday Kit=Comm Cord, Headset, TO Bag (great for one go days)
- Combat Pre-Flight=Quicker than normal pre-flight (usually on TDY's)
- Dogged Up=a jet with all three external tanks on
- Three Point=engine removal/install term
- G-suit insert=Pilot
- Pit Dad (Mom)=NCO in charge of hot pits for the day
- Suck, Squeeze, Bang, Blow=How a jet engine works (also known as PFM)
- Dummy Panel=Blank panel in CP that crewchiefs sometimes engrave name/tail #, etc on
- DAAB=Dumb as a brick
- Spangquentin=Spangdahlem
- No hope Pope=Pope
- Shady J=Seymor Johnson
- Apex=9/64's internal wrench (proper name)
- Calibrated elbow=applying "proper" torque without a torque wrench

blkdog wrote:

Speed Brakes are called BOARDS

Worked with a guy whose call sign was "Boards"...if you'd seen his ears, you wouldn't have to ask.

ive heard putting the gear down is called "dangling the dunlops"

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Viper Slang terminology