Most are unprintable (I'm self-censoring here), but that's the way of this breed of men. Pronounced "gibb", with a hard G. "Guy In Back", the Navy pilot's term for what the Navy more formally calls "Radar Intercept Officer" (RIO) or "Naval Flight Officer" (NFO), etc. 360 = Ragna/Hakumen/Nu-13. No, really–don't laugh, it's official and therefore true. Painted yellow, like all moveable (nonflying) flight deck equipment, the tilly is compact but powerful, able to clear disabled aircraft or parts thereof from the landing area in a hurry. Despite how many times he gets knocked down, he's quick to get back up and continue trying until he succeeds. They will tell you the sad truth. Chronophantasma as a whole means "the phantom of time".). If you keep pulling the stick back, they get bigger again. And the guy who made it has an entire snake motif. During a cruise all the pilots descend together into a communal olfactory coma, where no one offends anybody anymore. Inspirational/memorial/patriotic buzzwords. (See, Chief Petty Officer. Terumi liquidates the Kagutsuchi branch in this fashion in, Takamagahara wanted Mu to destroy the Master Unit, and would reset if this became impossible. So how do you know? Air-to-air gunnery. It defines him and his flying career: The number of flight hours, hours in a. The Other Services, which have Colonels, use the term to distinguish "full" Colonels (COL) from pretenders like Lieutenant Colonels and Kentucky Colonels. And Litchi. Unlike him, I've warned the enemy off, as you see. In his final moments as a human, it was business as usual as he continued recording his research and studied the Boundary, Ragna is believed to be the reincarnation of the Black Beast. It would certainly produce some sudden rearrangement of the furniture akin to a minor earthquake. Even then, there is. Undeniably, the name Guantanamo now leaves a different impression on most people, with its ill-reputed terror-suspect prison facility. Compare, Fighter pilots breathe 100% oxygen at all times while airborne. The sequence continues with drogue chute, seat separation, and main chute deployment. Onboard ship their least favorite watches are the, The aircraft carrier likes to have close to 30, The side of the ship closest to the wind, or in the upwind direction. It's the Black Beast's, whose crest is a combination of Ragna and Nu-13's. Of course, this term has found its way into the civilian vocabulary, but it's of military origin. No one can seem to agree on how Arakune's name is pronounced. Simply the direction facing the wind, or a location in that direction: "Let's find another table. For a Navy pilot, sea tours alternate with shore duty. An important flight control innovation at one time. Let me cite the authoritative web page ", Any loose thread on your uniform. (If you have a twitch in your right thumb you probably shouldn't be flying a loaded aircraft. This would be a violation of Navy Regulations, and therefore is thought by some to not actually happen. But it's a lovely song, and even has a verse (the last) dedicated to airmen. They tell me that the guys who run this military 'training' course are actually. At the same time, the bird raises trailing feathers on the left wing, which spoils the lift there and lowers the left wing. It's technically the same three people on the cover. There aren't "walls" aboard a Navy ship. (Also known as "Emergency Power Pack" and other terms, but "RAT" is obviously more colorful.) You start with a full bag of luck and an empty bag of experience. The flight lead is normally the senior aviator in the flight. You, Now here we have the key to the military services. "Notice to airmen." Fighter pilots have to keep this sort of thing in mind at all times. Listed below: This series has character sheets for each sub-series. After more than 18 months of training the flight student has reached his zenith, and finally gets his coveted, What did you do, what did you do, to rate a Field Board? Poor, poor Tsubaki. If it's not VFR, it's, Radio transmission for "Will Comply". Izanami, The Goddess of Death who is possessing Saya, Ragna and Jin's younger sister and the Murakumo template. An automated guardian of Relius' own design, based off of Nirvana. Navy ships at sea spend a fair amount of time just ... being, but like sharks they have to keep moving so what's there to do but ... steam? The. Hype Dog is one of them. And that's not even mentioning the material collections where not even. They pull G's, pull up, pull left, pull right . It's the enlisted ranks that keep the Navy runnning, and it's the chiefs, the top enlisted ranks (E7-E9), that literally make it run. 06: BOO COCKY (4.71) Heaven's to Betsy, Maria is ready to ride. Then the NOL makes them look like the bad guys so that they can launch an all-out war on them. In the same year, about 20,000 Americans were murdered on our streets, but the impolite young men got about a hundred times as much press. Politicians, 2. 05: ARCHIpElago (4.62) The honeymooners are off to a good start. Knight: Jin and Tsubaki. If you're out driving with your hubby, the former ace Navy pilot, and he says "Drat it, honey, I've got a vibration in the port main mount! But stuff that sinks, that's another matter. . ", "Pre-flite" is the 4 months or so of academic, physical, and military training preceding "real" flight training. The speed brake is controlled with a thumb switch on the throttle, and you snap them back in hydraulically in a fraction of a second as you add full power. Generic term for female groupies congregating around Naval Air training bases. The board, of course, has a wooden lip around to prevent the pieces from sliding onto the deck when the ship rolls. For example, to hold your position in a. Messin' around, in an airplane or not. The Air Force's stabilized, In addition to any other slang meanings of this term, it's an aviator's endearing appellation for the, Loss of vision, soon to be followed by loss of consciousness, as a result of, "A dear child has many names." Mu-12, the console exclusive character for, humanity messing around with the Master Unit and the Prime Field Devices used to search it ends with the whole world being destroyed (after a series of events) and the Origin (the first PFD who bonded with the Master Unit) has to reset the world. But its greatest utility is in such useful phrases as ", In modern fighters, the Heads-Up Display, that magical evolution of the old, Here's some military shorthand that seems to make sense. Jet engines take a second or more to spool up to full RPM, and the power always lags that much behind the throttle movement. "Drop at Own Request." Their job is to go in, To you who read this some years from now, when I am but ashes . "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas." It's just the (usually magnetic) direction that the aircraft is pointed. See ", The concept that makes airfoils (wings) work. An automatic sequence is started which jettisons the canopy and fires the rocket and/or explosive charge that powers the seat up the seat rails and out. the reason the BlazBlue world come to be is because of Susano'o's own conflict with Amaterasu, specifically with him wanting to see "his sister" suffer and desiring freedom from "her" control. Simply "Operations", usually flight ops to the aviator. To the Navy pilot, Gitmo means a couple of weeks' training deployment away from the distractions of home life, where he can concentrate fully on such professional development matters as snorkeling in the salt water lagoon and getting, A flexible word generally meaning useful specific instruction or information. On the other hand, the lower garment is always ", An irreverent term for the U.S. In the final portion of a landing approach you're "on final". Such as, Did I put my shades in the outboard or inboard pocket of my flight suit? In the case of electrical or hydraulic failure, this small turbine can be deployed into the air stream to provide emergency power. (Reverse that for countries that drive on the wrong side of the road. (To a Navy man, of course, the hallway in his house is a passageway, too.) The dip in question is a common but completely unauthorized maneuver by a pilot on final approach to the carrier. Rachel the zoner is associated with either Ragna or her butler Valkenhayn. Relius' puppet Detonator Fluctus Redactum: Ignis. It's not unheard of that the tow plane gets hit. (The poem was once dug out for political purposes by LBJ's speech writer, but seems to have survived that.) An accident can lead to a, Darker than just black. Staying true to his status as, Noel Vermilion definitely has Insight. This may be because the English version seems to have the former as the intended pronunciation, whereas the announcer is never redubbed from the original Japanese, where all the names are pronounced slightly different. How motivational is this? A pilot had best not use this system all the time, or he'll be rusty at the skill he will need when the system fails, Uh... That's the back end of the boat. Jin's katana Hyouken / Mucro Algesco (Ice Sword): Yukianesa (Snow Woman); it has the ability to form ice, at the price of sanity. You don't wear it indoors, and when you don't wear it you're "uncovered. The occasional residence that pops up to be terrified adds satisfaction. It's all about "active" or "passive". ", The carrier's landing area is "fouled" when it is not ready to land aircraft. The, We don't mean a landing on a carrier, though that's obviously a carrier landing. It has to do with ", The most critical part of the flight, even though you're back on Earth (or sea). However, while we know. Drawn in chibi style like the other BlazBlue characters. The student pilot has just had enough, or can't get the hang of it, or realizes he's about to get. This inane exercise or "game", which is best played in a bar, is testimony to the theory of evolution. I won't try to convey the feeling of sitting in a class run on this principle, but I remember ", Junior Officer, meaning officer grades O-1 through O-3, i.e., Ensign, Lieutenant (junior grade), and Lieutenant. Bad guess. But as a noun it comes into its own. The pilot signals the cat officer with a shake of the head; the cat officer signals this to the cat operator by crossed forearms. If there's one thing aviators hate, it's catching flak, whether in the air or in the skipper's office. An exercise carried out for their own amusement by the Navy's Bureau of Personnel. (Where there's a flight crew of two, it gets trickier. "Try to stay away from Captain Hazama" does not mean "charge Captain Hazama with guns blazing", Noellie. Makoto's family is heavily implied... in fact, scratch that, they're, Aside from them, there's also Trinity, Celica and Nine respectively (although Nine's hair is pink) in the novels. Other characters also use it in some of their Distortion Drives and Astral Heats. The curve has a surprising upward tail on the left (low speed) side. The domain of the. ), Directions to whatever, usually given as a, Pilot Induced Oscillation. Normally the simple acknowledging ", Most carrier-based aircraft can fold their wings hydraulically to save space on the deck. During landing (", The carrier's heading for flight operations. Hakumen's little story that he tells Tsubaki is full of this once you've listened, is at least crazy enough to off her best friend for a chance with Jin and has a pretty absurd case of. While "a flight" may mean simply the event between a take-off and a landing, in this specialized meaning, Every Navy flight (see entry above) has a designated flight leader. You "instrument train" on a hop to Maine. Same thing in the air. It is, of course, the big open building ashore where maintenance is done on the aircraft, and where the flight squadrons have their spaces: offices, ready room, etc. That is, Astral Heats are only unlocked in the console versions when a character completes their Arcade Mode; with each Arcade Mode being one iteration of the, If you've played the games, you already know what's going to happen. Joe's grin, about fifteen feet back in the ready room, told the story. There are also special kind of souls that can control the flow of life, such as that of Celica and presumably, Type A: Jin, Noel/Mu, Tsubaki/Izayoi, Valkenhayn, Relius, Azrael, Celica, Hibiki, Mai (NOL members, mostly), Type B: Ragna, Bang, Kokonoe, Naoto (Impulsive People), Type AB: Carl, Litchi, Hazama, Platinum, Nine (Intellectuals, for the most part). Celica was born in September 8th, also the birth day of Virgin Mary, and it reflects her motherly and benevolent personality as well as being a nun later. . Don't think they're not it the heat of battle! Jet engine air intakes can have enormous suction, and are notorious for swallowing up whatever gets in their way, from sailors to birds to nuts and bolts left on the deck. Arriving at the gunnery range you spend 30 harrowing minutes watching the would-be gunners struggle with the pattern. An airborne aircraft may hear. The one with the eight hundred 13-year old pilots who operate the air combat game controllers? It's not pretty. In the Story Mode credits, the voice actors' names are shown properly. But did you know how to spell it? Opposite of, Shore leave for the crew when the ship is in port. The Navy Hymn–"Eternal Father, Strong to Save"–has moistened many an eye, since it's invariably played at memorial services, something aviators are all too familiar with. By EXTEND, Score Attack Mode gets lighter in that the AI is just very high and you don't fight any Unlimited characters. The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire. Illustration of F-8 section go, courtesy John Fitzgerald. Mu-12 and Izayoi (Noel and Tsubaki's alter egos respectively): Mu is the mage with her powerful zoning capabilities and low health, while Izayoi is the thief with her quick attacks and high mobility. But he lacks insight as he's mostly motivated by anger than a true righteous cause. Long before it became the common English word for a chewing, it was the German common abbreviation for their anti-aircraft artillery: When a jet engine quits, it "flames out," the fire is gone. The needle points toward whatever station you've dialed in. And it's actually a prototype to the Murakumo Units that, once released, gives the user armor and weaponry eerily similar to one as well, referred to now as Zero-shiki Heiki (Zero-Weave Weapon): Izayoi (Sixteenth Moon). Though I don't think even an ape would ... no, it takes a Marine. [No sooner do I make this fine ironic point than Dave "Fireball" Johnson points out that nuclear ships run by steam(! There's a reason why Bang's Nox Nyctores has Lord Tenjo's name in it. "All Pilots Meeting." (Are you paying attention? Made you wish you'd get shot down and captured. When you have The Duty you're expected to be serious for several hours at a stretch, which can be a significant challenge for a J.O.