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Show Muscle Stretchers and Mice Can Make a Jet Jockey Flute Happy Go Handle Jet engine throttle control. Panic Button State of emergency emer-gency when the pilot mentally pushes buttons and switches in all directions. Console Pilot's cockpit con rol panels which, because of the preponderance pre-ponderance of switches and knobs, reminds one of the console of an organ. Binders Brakes. Mchomp on the Binders Apply brakes. Pucks Brake lining disks. Ejector The end portion of the tail pipe through which jet gases escape into the air. Pants Duct Where air-in ducts meet to pass air into the compressor com-pressor section of the engine. Railroading Inadvertent shuttling shut-tling between normal and emergency emer-gency fuel systems. Belly Bank Red splice strap, where tail section of F-84 is joined to the main fuselage section. Jet Jockeys Pilots who fly jet aircraft. Blow Torch Term applied to jet engine or to plane using jet engine. en-gine. Oil Burner Term applied to jet engine because it uses an oil type fuel, a refined form of kerosene. kero-sene. Squirrel Cage Highly active section of "brain" department, such as jet maintenance and engineering en-gineering offices, where mechanical mechan-ical and flight problems are worked out. i A new language is in the making mak-ing that of the jet pilots. Its all Greek to the average man, and even to the pilots of World War II it's slightly unintelligible, but the "men from Mars" know what they're talking about. Here's an abridged version of their dictionary: Hot Seat Pilot's ejection seat. Squirt Job Jet plane. Squirting Pertaining to jet flight. Bird Cage Area of jet plane where fuel, oil and hydraulic lines connect to engine's accesory section. sec-tion. Hose Nose Pilot dressed with helmet and oxygen mask. Man From Mars Jet pilot with full flight equipment: Helmet, parachute and one man dinghy, Mae West, oxygen mask, bailout bottle, goggles and flying suit. Muscle Stretcher A boost system sys-tem which augments pilot's efforts ef-forts to move elevators on some types of planes. Flute Head of control stick which is filled with buttons and controls in such a manner as to bear a faint resemblance to a flute. Flute Happy Control s t i c k "happy," or when the pilot does everything that's in the book as well as many things which are not. Mice Tail pipe inserts which facilitate adjustment of nozzle area and thus permit maximum thrust. Fat or Had It Made Any completely com-pletely successful operation, such as landing, take-off, target run, etc. In short, "everything is okay." |
