Fighter Pilot Slang

Dupe A TIE Bomber Easy chair The pilot's seat in a fighter. Edge An A-Wing fighter. Eyeball A basic TIE fighter. Often shortened to simply eye. Fangs out Eager for a dogfight. Few starships short of a fleet Insane. Final Jump A euphemism for death, used by spacers. Flat-hatting Showing off or engaging in dangerous maneuvres. Flyboy A starfighter pilot. Flying the same vector Thinking along the same lines. FTL Faster than light. Full DSW Having enough power for drive, shields, and weapons. Furball A hectic dogfight. G-burp Spacer slang for a sudden surge from a starship's drive system. Gain angles Maneuvre for a better shot in a dogfight. Get lines Disengage and jump to hyperspace. Go black Head from a planet's atmosphere into space. Go blue Head from space into a planet's atmosphere. Goes away What an enemy fighter does when you hit it. Gripe A mechanical problem. An up gripe is a problem that allows continuing operations; a down gripe does not. Hangar queen A fighter that is often unable to fly because it needs repairs, and thus is raided for parts. Hawk circle A formation of fighters waiting to land. Hop A mission. How do you plot that course? A phrase meaning "how did you come to that conclusion?" HUD Heads-up display. Impstar An Imperial Star Destroyer. Judy Comms call indicating you are intercepting a bandit. Klick Kilometer. KM "Kriffing magic," a pilot's all-purpose explanation for how technology works. Latch Get into position to destroy an enemy fighter. Loud handle The lever that triggers a fighter's ejection seat. LTS "Likely to survive," indicating approval of a pilot's skills. No d�cor "Speak freely," without worrying about rank. Old Spaceman's Home Retirement; to a spacer. Painted Scanned by sensors. Peeper A TIE fighter used for reconnaissance. Pointer An X-Wing fighter. Punching up a jump Spacer's slang describing the act of entering coordinates into a navigation computer prior to making the jump to lightspeed. Raising ship Spacer's slang for leaving a planet in a starship or the act of lifting off. Roof A carrier's flight deck. Reading the g's Term used by fighter pilots in reference to dialing down an inertial compensator to get a tactile feel for the movements of their ships. Rocketjock A starfighter pilot. SA Situational awareness. SD Vic A Victory-class Star Destroyer Senth Herf An admiring assessment of another pilot's abilities. Set-down Spacers' slang for the act of landing a starship. Shock To hit a bandit with a blast from an ion cannon. Shocker An ion cannon. The Show ACM; dogfighting. Skull A Z-95 Headhunter. Skyboy A term used to address starfighter pilots. Slim A RZ-1 A-Wing interceptor. Snubfighter Small spacecraft like X-wings or TIE Fighters that are seen as expendable. Spacer An individual who lives most of his or her life in space. Spinner A B-Wing fighter, also known as a cross. Splash Shoot down. Squint A TIE/ln Interceptor. Star-hopper Another term for spacer. Suicide sled A starfighter, particularly one with weak shield. Trip A TIE Defender. Ugly A starfighter made from parts of varying origins. Vape or vap Short for "vaporize." Starfighter pilot slang for destroying a target, especially in a dogfight. Vapebait A poorly skilled fighter pilot who is an easy target. Victim A Victory-class Star Destroyer. Warp-lagged Spacer's slang for the feeling of tiredness after traveling in hyperspace. Wishbone A BTL Y-Wing starfighter. Woke up on the wrong side of the starship Spacer's slang for feeling grumpy, irritable, or to be easily annoyed. Zero angle The position behind the stern of a bandit.

3-9 line	A line across a fighter's wings, based on an imaginary clock in which 12 is ahead of a fighter and 6 is behind. The goal of dogfighting is to keep bandits in front of one's 3-9 line.
ACM	Aerial Combat Maneuvering, better known as dogfighting.
Bandit	A hostile fighter or starship.
Big L	Lightspeed barrier.
Bingo	Having enough fuel for a safe return.
Bird	Spaceship.
Bluelined	Disabled by an ion cannon blast.
Blue milk run	An easy hop, an ordinary and uneventful mission.
Bogey	An unidentified fighter or starship.
Bone	A Y-Wing fighter
Bright	A TIE/Advanced fighter.
Bumping	Engaging in ACM.
Burn sky until we see lines	Fly until you get into hyperspace.
Burnout	Spacer slang referring the loss of power in a starship's power plants.
Cargo hold	Spacers' slang for backside, bottom.
Centurion	A pilot with one hundred landings on a carrier or fighter base.
Check your 6	"Be careful, watch out behind you."
Clear skies	"Be well," a traditional spacer's farewell.
Clutch	A squadron of TIE fighters.
Cold nose	Operating with sensors down.
Connecting the navpoints	A comprehensive attempt at illustration or explanation of a subject.
DIE-wing	A TIE-Wing Ugly, referring to its alarmingly low combat survivability.
Dirt flier	An atmospheric fighter pilot.
Dirtside	On a planet's surface.
Dragship	An Interdictor-class cruiser.
Drift factor	A measure of a pilot's flakiness or inability to follow orders.
Drunken Mynock School of Instruction	The place where one with minimal piloting skills might have bought his or her pilot's license.