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Show a airplane. The twirlnner who shows unusual awkwardness Is In danger of being dubbed a "Hun," which Is the worst appellation In a colorful lan-us;e. lan-us;e. . I . ! Airy Language Developed By the War's Sky Pilots :1 j Aerial warfare has developed a j new language of slang. Soma of Us ' phrases are so colorful as to seem ' likely of adoption by the American J public, which has a fancy for taking, j unto Itself every vivid term that helps j to make Its Ideas clear, i It aeems especially appropriate for That last description can be under-I under-I stood by even the layman. I Nor does It take long for the hud-! hud-! ding amateur's companions to decide ; whether he needs the hot water bag. K the decision Is against him they are llkelv to remark that he never can wield "the Joy stick." which Is nothing I more or less than the control lever of I the air pilot to Indicate his readiness i to ascend by the remark that "the bus is buzzing." Who could say more : fittingly that the motor waa working and the airplane waiting? The word "spin" has a sinister implication on the fighting front A spin usually ends in death, and if an aviator reports that he "had a little spin." It means that he missed destruction de-struction by Inches. When an airplane air-plane loses balance. It begins to revolve re-volve like a lop. which is the genesis of the word spin in the flying man's vocabulary. For an aviator to say that he has a little "elevator Inspection" on hand J is his graphic way of indicating that he must examine that part of his airplane's mechsnlsm which' governs its ascent and descent. The word "stunt" does not mean, as might be supposed, a trick of some sort. For an aviator to say that he Is "going to do a stunt" implies that he has been ordered on a bomb throwing throw-ing excursion over enemy territory. In the American airman's eyes the aviator who has a weakness for performing per-forming before an audienae. preferably prefer-ably feminine, is an "up stage actor." To the Englishman he is a "pylon pilot." Both terms carry scorn of the deepest dye with them, and indicate that the man in question needs "a hot ' water bag for his feet." |