It was sometimes used imprecisely, as in my early years of flying, but later we were better about using bogey to indicate an unknown aircraft and bandit to indicate an enemy.īreak – A maximum-performance turn, usually in response to a threatening aircraft or missile. It can also be used as a verb, to describe when an aircraft has reached the fuel level and bingos to its base.īogey – Technically, this is any radar contact. Bingo is established before takeoff and varies based on conditions such as weather. This is a refinement of the general category of bogey.īingo – A fuel state at which the aircraft should stop performing its mission, whether training or combat, and start returning to its base or heading for aerial refueling. Despite the word “attack,” it is not related to weapons, and applies to all aircraft.īag – Aviator slang for the Nomex flight suit.īandit – An enemy aircraft. "Angels two-five" means 25,000 feet.Īngle of attack – The angle at which an aircraft wings meet the air stream. The F-14’s afterburners had five stages or zones, so Zone 5 was max burner.Īngels – Altitude in thousands of feet. Increases thrust by fifty percent or more, but fuel consumption goes up ten times or more. Friendly fighters are always listed before the "v."Īfterburner, or burner – Assembly that injects pure fuel into a metal tube that extends aft of the basic engine, and ignites it. It could involve one friendly fighter against one enemy, known as a one-versus-one or 1v1, or multiple aircraft on each side, such as 2v3. Brazil operated 3 Skyhawks as of 2020 and private companies in the United States operate Skyhawks as contracted adversary trainers.ĪCM – Air combat maneuvering, a general term for training for close-in air-to-air combat with enemy fighters. Topgun flew single-seat A-4s with non-essential equipment removed to save weight, and the most powerful engines the Navy could fit into them. The TA-4 version included a second seat with complete flight controls, and hundreds were used to train student pilots and NFOs. From 1974 through 1986, the Navy’s famous flight demonstration team the Blue Angels used A-4s. Built by Douglas Aircraft, which later became McDonnell-Douglas, it was used extensively in Vietnam and flown by a half-dozen foreign forces. Note: Topgun used different types of A-4 Skyhawks over the years, these specs are for the A-4F.Ī-4 Skyhawk – Developed in the mid-1950s, the A-4 provided the Navy and Marine Corps with a simple, versatile aircraft that could be operated from aircraft carriers. Each type is further described in the glossary, in alphabetical order. This chart compares important specifications of the three main aircraft types in TOPGUN DAYS - A-4, F-5, and F-14 - showing top speed, fuel capacity, etc. Paramount Pictures decided to use it as two words when they titled their movie, "Top Gun." Some Navy people used two words, it was not a big deal in the 1980s but now has become more formalized as one word and usually all caps: TOPGUN. Up front, the question: Is "Topgun" one word or two? The Navy generally used it as a single word when referring to the squadron, officially called the Navy Fighter Weapons School. Some of these terms are slang or lingo, others are defined in doctrine. They may differ from how they are used by other services or other countries. Terms used in Bio's books Note: These definitions refer to how the terms are used in a US Navy environment, in the 1980s and 1990s.
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