Aviation Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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toe-in n. Gunsauls decided a closer extraction was necessary. He lifted off again, approached the children’s location and balanced the front tips of the helicopter’s landing skids against the sloping hillside what pilots refer to as a “toe-in.” [English Aviation Jargon] [full cite] (Feb. 8, 2006)

torture taxi n. Trevor Paglen is a doctoral candidate at University of California, Berkeley and the author of the book about the so-called torture taxis, or what the CIA calls rendition planes. [English Automobiles & Transportation Aviation New or Nonce] [full cite] (Feb. 28, 2007)

touch time n. We’ve got new 717s, the Boeing 717, the average age is just a little bit over three years. And then we’ve got the older but very reliable MD80-series aircraft, and certainly as aircraft age, they require a lot more hands-on time, and I just want to make sure that we have adequate resources so that we are giving those aircraft all the, what I call the “touch time,” that they need. [English Aviation Jargon] [full cite] (Mar. 5, 2008)

touch-and-go n. Just as he took off a Hercules then reported ready, so we continued to orbit as he carried out his checks and took off. We then needed to allow a few minutes to allow the wake turbulence to subside before we continued. In all we did 6 touch-and-gos (rolls in military parlance) and 1 full stop landing, making a total of 7 in an hour and 10 minutes. [English Aviation Military Jargon] [full cite] (Aug. 3, 2007)

trap n. She had made more than 50 day and night “traps,” as the carrier landings are called. And, along with her fellow pilots, she was continually honing her skills. [English Aviation Military Nautical] [full cite] (Mar. 30, 2007)

trap n. The Greyhound, which looks as if it sprang from the womb of Howard Hughes’s Spruce Goose, is 50,000 pounds of flying metal that must set itself down on the pitching deck of a ship at 120 knots and come to a complete stop in two seconds and 200 or so feet. Our pilot made the “trap” on the first try. But tonight Adm. Gortney will watch from his seat on the bridge as freshly minted pilots (“nuggets,” in Navy parlance) miss their traps and “bolter” off the deck to try again. [English Aviation Military Jargon] [full cite] (Jul. 13, 2007)

traveler n. Boeing’s supplier partners did not install many of the electronic and hydraulic systems into their respective fuselage sections as planned. Boeing is shifting workers—known as “travelers” in airplane production argot—from other airplane programs, such as the 777 Jetliner, to make up for the unfinished work. That is sure to boost overtime pay, push workers harder, and create havoc as employees frantically try to catch up on the unfinished work. [English Aviation Employment Jargon] [full cite] (May. 22, 2007)

trike n. A “trike” is slang for something officially known as a “flexwing microlight aircraft.” They call it a trike because it has three wheels, like a tricycle. [English Aviation] [full cite] (May. 19, 2004)

trike n. Many residents of the town looked upwards on Easter Sunday morning to see eight small triangles making their way around the perimeter of the town at varying heights.…The flying machines are commonly called trikes, but the correct name for them is weightshift microlights. [English Aviation] [full cite] (Apr. 27, 2006)

tug n. Crews at Philadelphia, for instance, were short of equipment and fighting over the tractors—known as tugs—that they use to pull baggage carts. [English Automobiles & Transportation Aviation Jargon] [full cite] (Nov. 12, 2006)

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