And as for "Sir, ahhhh, request high speed ahhhhh gear up low approach to pitch into the closed" - Yank-speak for run-in and break - words fail me!
That might be the USAF way, but in the Navy it's "request the break".
All I have to say is that one of you English gentlemen need to go to San Francisco and announce loudly in the bar that you'd "like to smoke a fag". You'll be in for a big surprise.