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FOR CENTURIES man looked longingly at the skies. Finally, some forty years ago, at Kill Devil Hill, near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright successfully completed the first mechanical flight. Today, thanks to the Wright brothers, man can fly. The Air Age is here! Thousands of military and commercial airplanes are speeding across the country on well-defined, carefully regulated air-ways. Air routes are reaching across every continent, into every corner of the world. No place on the globe is now more than 60 flying hours from your nearest air field. As aviation comes of age air traffic is becoming more and more of a problem to pilots. Uniform rules and regulations are necessary to insure maximum safety in flight. To the young men of America whose hearts are in the sky, we present this booklet. Its pictures teach the rules that every pilot must know before he can earn his wings. Learn what this booklet has to tell and you will have taken a long step toward the day when you can soy, "I've Got Wings." Art ideas for this booklet were contributed by personnel of the Air Traffic Control Division of the Civil Aeronautics Administration. "I've Got Wings" was prepared and published by the U.S. Army Air Forces, Flight Control Command. | |||
| "SLANGUAGE" | |||
| Ace | a combat pilot with five or more victories | ||
| Blanket Drill | sleeping | ||
| Blind Flying | a date with a girl you've never seen | ||
| Bumps | the effect of updrafts and downdrafts encountered in flight | ||
| Bunk Flying | talking aviation in quarters | ||
| Buzzing | flying dangerously low over people or property on the ground; (taboo) | ||
| Caterpillar Club | a jump for life in a parachute qualifies for membership | ||
| Chinese Landing | one wing low | ||
| Clinker | a poorly executed maneuver | ||
| Conservatory | a power-operated, glass-enclosed machine gun turret | ||
| Contact | a warning called out by the pilot to inform the mechanic the ignition switch is on | ||
| Cracking Good Show | highest possible praise of a performance | ||
| Dead Stick | gliding plane, after the engine has conked | ||
| Dogfight | combat between two planes | ||
| Drive It In The Hangar | stop talking aviation | ||
| Dummer | a bonehead act | ||
| Dust Bin | underside rear gun turret in an enemy aircraft | ||
| Eggs | bombs | ||
| Fat Friends | balloons | ||
| Flak | anti-aircraft fire | ||
| Flying The Iron Beam or Iron Compass | pilot flying along railroad | ||
| Flying Pig | aerial torpedo | ||
| Flying the Gauges | instrument flying | ||
| Gain Some Altitude | come to a more erect standing or sitting position. Used to correct the "civilian slouch" in new cadets | ||
| Geese | enemy bomber formation | ||
| Get Eager | do your best; strive to the utmost | ||
| Give It The Gun | advance the throttle to accelerate engine speed | ||
| Glasshouse | power operated turret | ||
| Go Into A Tailspin | get mad | ||
| Going Upstairs | gaining altitude; climbing | ||
| Good Show | a commendable action | ||
| Grab A Brace | come to a position of super attention; usually directed at new cadets | ||
| Hangar Pilot | mechanic who talks a great flight | ||
| Hedge Hopping | low flying | ||
| He's In A Flat Spin | a bit touched | ||
| Hit The Deck | when an aviator lands | ||
| Hitting The Silk | to make a parachute jump | ||
| Hot Crate | a speedy plane | ||
| H. P. | a hot pilot | ||
| Jinking | dodging anti-aircraft fire | ||
| Lame Duck | damaged plane | ||
| Laying The Eggs | dropping bombs | ||
| Life Saver | a parachute | ||
| Mustard | smart pilot | ||
| Office | the pilot's cockpit, usually in a large airplane | ||
| Onions | flaring anti-aircraft shells | ||
| Overshoot | to glide beyond the landing field before landing | ||
| Pea Shooters | the high-powered planes of the Air Forces | ||
| Pulpit | the cockpit | ||
| Ready Room | the room where pilots on duty assemble, ready for instant call to action | ||
| Reef Back | pull back the stick in flying a plane | ||
| Roll Up Your Flops | stop talking | ||
| Shoot Landings | to acquire practice in landing a plane | ||
| Short Snorter | a member of an unofficial flyers' club, each member of which carries a one dollar bill autographed by fellow short snorters. Any members being unable to show the bill upon request of a fellow member, must forfeit a comparable bill or note to each short snorter present | ||
| Shot Down In Flames | jilted by a girl friend | ||
| Show | action in the air | ||
| Slap On The Coal | open the throttle to give a plane more gas | ||
| Solo | flying alone; hence doing anything else without company | ||
| Spin Off | take a nap; or go to bed | ||
| Spit Curl | a side slip in a plane | ||
| Sugar Report | a letter to or from a girl friend | ||
| Tear Off A Strip | to give someone a bawling out | ||
| Tin Fish | an aerial torpedo | ||
| Woofing | the telling of tall tales | ||
| The data in the additional content section is courtesy of Galactic Central. | |||
