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Airfoil: Reynolds Wrap for manufacturing aircraft wings.
Airspeed: Speed of an airplane. Deduct 25% when listening to a Navy pilot.
Angle of Attack: Pick-up lines that pilots use.
Arresting Gear: A Policeman's equipment.
Bank: The folks who hold the lien on most pilots' cars.
Barrel Roll: Sport enjoyed at squadron picnics, usually after the barrels
are empty.
Carburetor Icing: A phenomenon happening to Aero club pilots at exactly
the
same time they run out of gas.
Cone of Confusion: An area about the size of New Jersey located near the
final approach beacon at an airport.
Crab: The squadron Ops. Officer.
Dead Reckoning: You reckon correctly, or you are.
Engine Failure: A condition which occurs when all fuel tanks become filled
with air.
Firewall: Section of the aircraft specially designed to let heat and smoke
enter the cockpit.
Glide Distance: Half the distance from an airplane to the nearest
emergency
landing field.
Hydroplane: An airplane designed to land on a wet runway, 20,000 feet
long.
IFR: A method of flying by needle and ripcord.
Lean Mixture: Non-alcoholic beer.
Motor: Word used by student pilots and Yankees when referring to the
engine.
Nanosecond: Time delay built into the stall warning system.
Parasitic Drag: A pilot who bums a ride back and complains about the
service.
Range: Usually about 30 miles beyond the point where all fuel tanks fill
with air.
Rich Mixture: What you order at the other guy's promotion party.
Roger: Used when you're not sure what else to say.
Roll: The first design priority for a fully loaded KC-135A.
Service Ceiling: Altitude at which cabin crews can serve drinks.
Spoilers: The Federal Aviation Administration.
Stall: Technique used to explain to the bank why your car payment is late.
Steep Bank: Banks that charge pilots more than 10% interest.
Tactics: What a clock sounds like when it needs fixing.
Tail Wind: Results from eating beans, often causing Oxygen deficiency in
the
immediate vicinity.
Useful Load: Volumetric capacity of the aircraft, as regarding weight of
cargo.
Up: A chant used by pilots taking off from Colorado Springs, who want to
discover the meaning of life.
VOR: Radio navigation aid, named after the VORtex effect of pilots trying
to
home in on it.
Yankee: Any pilot that asks Houston tower to "Say again".
Zero: Style and artistry points earned for a gear-up landing.



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