Tally Ho, No Joy, and other Air Combat Operational Brevity Terms

[Evan Morris]

Interesting glossary of terms used by fighter pilots:


http://www.combatsim.com/archive/htm/htm_arc4/pilot_tk.htm


This particular site seems to be aimed at players of air combat computer
simulation games, but listening to radio traffic here in the Buckeye
Military Operations Area I have heard F-16 Air National Guard pilots use
most of these terms in air combat training exercises.

Hey, it beats listening to talk radio all day.

Anyone with a fast net connection can hear a .wav file of this sort of
thing at
http://www.word-detective.com/2-26.wav






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Evan Morris
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