trivia #6

[monteini]

Durring WW2, military pilots developed a colorful "slan-quage."  Define the meanings of the following slang expressions:

1. Blanket drill
2. Chinese landing
3. Flying the iron beam
4. French landing
5. Geese
6. Laying eggs
7. Pulpit
8. roll up your flaps
9. rug dance
10. shot down in flames
11. sugar report

[Debonair]

#3 sounds like I Follow Roads

[Golfer]

Originally posted by monteini
Durring WW2, military pilots developed a colorful "slan-quage."  Define the meanings of the following slang expressions:

1. Blanket drill
2. Chinese landing
3. Flying the iron beam
4. French landing
5. Geese
6. Laying eggs
7. Pulpit
8. roll up your flaps
9. rug dance
10. shot down in flames
11. sugar report

4 - Landing only after discarding all weapons and ammunition

[AutoPilot]

4 - Landing only after discarding all weapons and ammunition

regardless of what the French are doing now a days,they flew right beside us in WW2 against the germans and Italians.They fought till the last man
in France while England sat back and watched.Just about all tactix of modern warfare are derived from a famous French leader.

[Krusty]

Individuals in France can fight, sure. But as a nation? I'm no French hater, I don't love 'em don't hate 'em, but it was well put by a couple of websites:


Google reply for search on French Victories

The Complete Military History of France

[Furball]

Originally posted by AutoPilot
in France while England sat back and watched.

excuse me?



who sat back and watched?

who sat back and watched while their ally was getting their historic cities firebombed?

who sat back and watched, whilst their ambassador fled the country saying britain was doomed?

the only thing Britain did not send to france was their Spitfires (what a wise choice that turned out to be).

[Krusty]

An entire flight of D520s, in 1940 one of the best planes in the war, tried to bounce a single hurricane mk1 [EDIT: They mis-took it for german], which easily lost all of them on a clear day and kept going on its merry way. Okay I'll give them the point that they TRY... but French AF vs LW? Slaughtered!

France had one of the largest standing air forces during the buildup before WW2. The problem is most of the planes were obsolete, and the few that did fight were shot down, and the rest were surrendered to the LW before ever getting a chance to fight, due to France's surrender.

So... I won't totally say I disagree that French fighting alongside us were just as good-- maybe we were a good influence. But left to their own devices they were almost helpless.

Coincidentally, the best planes the French had were passed to the LW as "advanced trainers" before LW pilots moved on to 109s.

[frank3]

>cough< trivia? >cough<

Rolling up flaps = raise flaps

Laying eggs = ofcourse dropping bombs

Shot fown in flames = either bandit or friendly is shot up and burning

Flying the iron beam might be following rail road?

[Mister Fork]

Originally posted by monteini
Durring WW2, military pilots developed a colorful "slan-quage."  Define the meanings of the following slang expressions:

1. Blanket drill - covers everyone
2. Chinese landing - no gear landing
3. Flying the iron beam - follow the railroad tracks
4. French landing - landing in enemy territory
5. Geese - donno
6. Laying eggs - droping bombs
7. Pulpit - from the cockpit PIC
8. roll up your flaps - raise flaps
9. rug dance - belly up landing
10. shot down in flames - crash and burn enemy shot down
11. sugar report - kills  

[AutoPilot]

But left to their own devices they were almost helpless.

So they didn't fly those missions over Italy hand in hand with american p-47s.

Just because you were never told about it doesn't mean it never happened.

[monteini]

ANSWER!


Durring WW2, military pilots developed a colorful "slan-quage." Define the meanings of the following slang expressions:

1. Blanket drill = Sleeping
2. Chinese landing = Landing with "one wing low"
3. Flying the iron beam = Navigating by following a railroad track
4. French landing = Keeping the tail high for as long as possible during the landing rool after wheel landing a taildragger
5. Geese = An enimy bomber formation
6. Laying eggs = dropping bombs
7. Pulpit = cockpit
8. roll up your flap = relax, and stop talking
9. rug dance = standing nervously in the commander's office while being chastised
10. shot down in flames = jilted by a girl
11. sugar report = a letter to or from a girlfreind

[Pooface]

Originally posted by AutoPilot
regardless of what the French are doing now a days,they flew right beside us in WW2 against the germans and Italians.They fought till the last man
in France while England sat back and watched.Just about all tactix of modern warfare are derived from a famous French leader.

LOL

the french air force didnt exist after april 1940. it was the BRITISH who helped the 8th AF over germany, and the americans only got there because 2 years previously the brits managed to hold on to the ideals of freedom, and keep fighting an enemy that outnumbered us 4:1. and we won!!!!

it was also the BRITISH who aided in the assault in the pacific and north africa. not the french. get your facts straight before digging at a nation that changed the course of the entire war. if not for us, the war would have been over before you americans even threw in the towel, and you would be speaking nazi german. so please, shut up:aok

edit: just read your quote again. 1/2 of our squadrons were in france during april and may 1940, defending our ally france, whose AF had folded and surrendered itself to hitler a month before we left. we had to bring our forces back to england to defend ourselves, so that we could regain strength, and go back to liberate france a few years later.

i think anyone that said the british sat on their arses during ww2 is a moron

[straffo]

Originally posted by Krusty
Individuals in France can fight, sure. But as a nation? I'm no French hater, I don't love 'em don't hate 'em, but it was well put by a couple of websites:


Google reply for search on French Victories

The Complete Military History of France

you deserved this :

US military victories:

1775-1783: The British crown presents a bill to American settlers who must now pay for their protection. Ungrateful settlers who are
already allergic to taxes go on a rampage and attack tea boxes on a ship; several Americans are wounded in explosions.
Americans win their sole victory in Saratoga when general Burgoyne realizes that Canadian merchants sold him ragweed instead of tea before his departure. Facing a mutiny he decides to surrender.
In the following years Americans will lose most of ther battles due to their lack of discipline and massive desertions. In 1781, 30,000 French soldiers & sailors accept to integrate 11,000 American mascots who
will play music from afar while the French win the Battle of Yorktown.
1812: The American army is crushed trying to invade Canada and abandons annexation plans.
During the 19 the century, several raids are led against Indian women and babies with the US troops achieving some victories, but fail in their effort to ethnically cleanse the Indians. Nevertheless, some sucessful slaughters will lead them to believe that they are mighty and couragous warriors.
1861-1865: Americans win an impressive victory against themselves but it took a while. The Civil War as it comes to be called, will turn out to be the only war Americans ever win. Mind you they beat themselves, but why digress.
1898: The Spanish succeed a master coup and get rid of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines at the expense of the Americans,
leaving them the impression that they won the war. Soon the US discovers that there is no oil there, and that their new possessions are
a wastebasket, more than anything else.
1900-1950: A series of military interventions against banana republics in South America and the Caribbean against people armed with slingshots and spears has a beneficial effect on the American ego.
1918: The Americans arrive just on time to see the victory of the French and the British against the Germans. They then turn around, and try to claim the high ground by sabotaging the peace treaty and stabbing France in the back when it tries to enforce reparations and prevent Germany from rearming, thus setting the stage for WWII.
1941-1945: While as many as 20 million Russians die bleeding the Wermacht to death, the US wait until the Germans are left with the Hitler Youth, a childrens' force comprised of 14 year old soldiers to launch their assault. They are still saying today that they suffered heavy loses at their hands. In the whole Normandy Campaign they suffer less casualties than the French did in the first six months of 1940, and inflict less damage on the Germans, yet this is enough for them to claim they liberated Europe. That claim alone is the biggest piece of historical myth in history.
1950-1953: The US fails to beat North Korea, in 1953 the borders are still roughly what they were three years earlier.
1963-1973: Americans suffer cruelly from the lack of AC and marijuana of a poor quality in Vietnam. When they realize that their soldiers
can be killed in a war they retreat.
1983: The combined aviation, navy and ground troops apply an audacious plan and succeed to beat a bunch of cuban workers armed with shovels in Granada. The celebrations go on for weeks with parades and chants of USA, USA.
1991: Americans align more soldiers than the French or the British combined and succeed in crushing an army of barefoot *****e drafted against their will who are armed with empty rifles and have barely had a thing to eat in months. But even this so-called victory is hollow as it is actually led by the Daguet division from France which leads the charge while American soldiers console themselves by rounding up prisoners that TV crews did not want.

2003: Iraq. Need I go on? I think not.

[AutoPilot]

the 8th AF over germany

was talking about fighting germans in Italy,guess you missed that.

And you got it backwards,if thw US didnt help out england and russia,then those 2 countrys would be speaking german.

[Pooface]

Originally posted by AutoPilot
was talking about fighting germans in Italy,guess you missed that.

And you got it backwards,if thw US didnt help out england and russia,then those 2 countrys would be speaking german.

errrm, england won the battle of britain all on its lil lonesome (i saw a documentary on this, and many americans interviewed thought that they had won it and the english were defenceless), and went on to raid france and germany with few losses compared to that of the germans, before the yanks entered the war. by the time the americans arrived in force, the luftwaffe were beaten in europe and focused on russia. i will take a page out of straffo's book and add that the americans seemed jolly pleased that they won an air war where in some areas they outnumbered the germans by 15:1. and yes, i know you were talking about italy, where the brits comprised 65% of the allied forces in the med and north africa yet you seem to think that the french air force (that didnt exist at the time, sure i'll give you that there were very small french resistance forces with either crappy planes, or no planes at all) played a major role. please dont take this as a personal attack, i just find it very annoying when people badmouth my country (of which i am very proud) with no reason, or a reason that is completely incorrect.

and straffo, the americans may seem to exaggerate their combat victories:p , but they do very good food, and have many redeeming features;). i personally would love to live with such polite, and friendly people (i mean this, americans are always up for a good chat:aok ). well, new yorkers can piss me off a lot tho