Show Sorri something ething wrong if RAF pilots tut put up a black blacka the RAF has developed a language 9 all its own many of the terms such as browned off for bored and IP put cutup up a black for doing something wrong have been adopted now into common usage some expressions have been borrowed from the united states including flinging a wool woo which means to have a date with a girl and roughneck which in the RAF does not mean a tough guy but an person gen means the real inside information on anything andt and similarly duff idoff gen means wrong information A flap is a sudden operation to be in a flap or or in a flat spin means to be busy on a job too busy to do anything else the chief plumber is of course arse the chief engineer the quack hackl is the doctor the second dickey is the second pilot and a stick is an RAF HAF photographer to pilots who go dicing or on a shaky do are attacking a difficult and dangerous target tt if its an an easy target its a piece ot of cake atter after they drop their bombs they sometimes stooge around to take a beaker meaning to hang around to have a look to carry the can is to hold the baby or to be the scapegoat while pilots suffering from that morning after feeling are newt ed 11 |