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Show Fliers of Jets Disclaim Slang Say Jargon Attributed To Them Not Factual CHANDLER, Ariz. The air force's aviation cadets training at Williams air force base here to be jet fighter pilots declared that the new jargon widely attributed to them is the invention of fiction writers who sit up late writing but have never visited a jet fighter base. "We never call our flying blowtorches blow-torches fizz jobs," Cadet Richard C. Brown of Castleton, N.Y., declared de-clared seriously. "You often hear them called stovepipes that's most common but somebody must have dreamed up the name 'lightning rod.' There's really no particular jargon attached to jet flying. "When you're going on a flight you get in the cockpit of the jet and set fire to its tail. You don't 'light the wick.' Then as soon as the engine's burning you taxi out and roll down the runway. As soon as you leap off, or break ground, you suck up the flaps and wheels and you're flying at jet. If you have a light supply of juice you climb at about 200. If the tio tanks are full you climb about 300 miles an hour. That's all there is to it." Cadet Arthur P. Lempanthis of Buffalo, N. Y., concurred and added that after once getting into a Lockheed F-80 Shooting Star "it. would be really tough" to have to fly in a wartime F-51 Mustang that "mosies along" under 500 miles an hour. The F-80 is a single-jet fighter and a troublesome thought occurred oc-curred to Cadet Brown when he contemplated the future. "We won't be flying F-80's all our lives," he said, "and sometime some-time we might get into something like the F-90. That's a big penetration pene-tration fighter. But it has two jet engines. Will people think we're box-car pilots?" |