Originally Posted by
Stitchbitch
Unfortunately they - even those who should know better - do. They even use the spotters favourite expression ‘gone tech’ as well. Heard quite a few time on a Typhoon Squadron and down South..
Gone Tech was often used during my service career and throughout my civilian aircraft engineering career, certainly not a spotter term, several ex Tiffie mates also refer to it as the Tiffie, which as said was the common name used during the war, in a similar vein everyone used to call the R.A.F RAF as in a single word even though the likes of Bader frowned upon it.
several threads on here refer to it as such, one includes a debate.
Tiffie splashes Raptor?
AFTER TIFFIE