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puke


Someone who flies a different kind of aircraft than you, as in fighter puke or attack puke.
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turkey


Nickname for the F-14 Tomcat
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aaa


Anti-aircraft Artillery. Rapid-firing cannon or machine guns, often aimed by computers and radar.
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acm


Air Combat Maneuvering, or dogfighting.
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admiral’s doorbell


The yellow button in an F/A-18 cockpit that jettisons all the external stores in an emergency. If you hit it, you’ll be “ringing the admiral's doorbell” to explain why.
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agl


Above Ground Level. An airplane’s altimeter reads height above Mean Sea Level (MSL), the more realistic measurement over land is height Above Ground Level. Most military aircraft have a radar-altimeter, which reads aircraft height above ground level.
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air boss


Head of the Air Department on board a carrier; he rules the flight deck.
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air wing


The entire complement of aircraft fielded by the carrier in battle: fighters, attack jets, early-warning planes, tankers, helicopters, antisubmarine patrol craft, etc.
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alert 5


A manned aircraft can launch within five minutes. The Navy has time restrictions as to how long a crew can stand an Alert-5 watch. Similarly, Alert 15, Alert 30, Alert 60.
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aluminum cloud


The F-14 is so large that it is sometimes referred to by this term.
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