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blisk n. Aircraft engines can be damaged by foreign objects entering the engine and hitting the fast-spinning airfoils. Modern jet engines use integrally-bladed rotors, often known as blisks, which are made using materials of the highest quality in order to improve efficiency while ensuring safety. To repair these components, material added to restore the damaged blisk airfoils must meet the same stringent property requirements as new components. [English Aviation] [full cite] (Mar. 19, 2007)

blue ice n. Stan Walchesky and neighbors on Neupert Road in Jefferson began noticing the stuff last week and speculated that it was “blue ice,” the euphemism for the chemically treated lavatory waste that sometimes falls from airplanes. [English Aviation] [full cite] (Dec. 23, 2005)

bolter v. 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 Slang] [full cite] (Jul. 13, 2007)

box office n.

Box Office: Formerly known as the Cockpit. Renamed by Female Pilots.

[English Aviation Military Slang] [full cite] (Jun. 22, 2007)

box office n. There are swept tip designs that lessen the factors contributing to noise and some noise canceling technology has been tested _inside_ the cockpit (or “box office” if it’s a female crew [g]). [English Aviation Slang] [full cite] (Jun. 27, 2007)

box office n. Flew with someone the other day and she referred to it as a box office. [English Aviation Slang] [full cite] (Jun. 27, 2007)

box office n. They don’t sit in a “cockpit” though, they sit in the “box office” Just goes to show, women will do anything to promote themselves, just like guys. [English Aviation Slang] [full cite] (Jun. 27, 2007)

box office n. “Yes,” said the attendant, “In fact the entire crew is female.”…“We no longer call it the cockpit. Now it’s the box office.” [English Aviation Slang] [full cite] (Jun. 27, 2007)

box office n. Most airliner cockpits (box office if it’s a female crew) were designed back in the fifties when traffic was not a serious consideration. [English Aviation Slang] [full cite] (Jun. 27, 2007)

box office n. Womem shouldn’t fly. Why do you think they call it a cock-pit and not a box office. [English Aviation Slang] [full cite] (Jun. 27, 2007)

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