TScar001

Mission means raid. Sortie the same, albeit of a more temporary nature. Still, I believe, in current use tho' others will no doubt correct me, are; 'bandits' and 'angels' equivalent to your 'bogy' and 'altitude'.

A few more general equivalents may be of help. I wouldn't venture to offer slang terms, because these go out of date very quickly and my info is well out of date. But here are a few more random general terms (US first)

Flight suit - flying suit
Base commander - station commander
Visor cap - SD cap
214th squadron - 214 squadron
Afterburner - reheat (but that may have changed since "my day")
Enlisted men - other ranks (or more commonly airmen in the case of the RAF)

There will be lots more which others can suggest, without having the specialised F35 experience you mention

Just wondering if you meant "grocers' " ?
:cool:

Officer's and their Ladies

SNCO's and their Wives

Airmen and their women

At Wyton in my day, we started calling them 'Spoons'.
They seemed very bemused at this and couldn't work out why.
One day one of the lads told them - and they were not happy when the realised that we had successfully taken the p1ss.

What about that fashionable new RAF term 'skillfade'?
:ugh:
And g-pants (US) are 'turning trousers'.

Haven't we all become so PC these days.....that the RAFP's more derogatory nickname (it's not that bad!) hasn't been mentioned yet!!

no longer Plods?

Fashionable new term my rear end!

'Skillfade' was an extant term as long ago as the 1980s!

To which one instantly adds:

O Club = Officers Mess
Base Housing = Married Quarters (is it now called Families Accommodation?)

... oh, there are dozens like that. The OP needs to send a shopping list of terminology to obtain translations!

From one post in another thread, never,never, never “kites” or “stood up”

If, when it formed, a squadron "stood up" (US style), can it be said to have "fallen over" (or "sat down again") on disbandment?

As opposed to 'stood down'?

I’ve fallen over at a few disbandments!

Formed, disbanded, reformed.

Exactly. Though some might say re-formed. When I were a lad, there were things called 'reform schools' for wayward youths.

Meanwhile, whatever happened to ops/operations, once part of the RAF's standard lexicon? Mission(s) now seems to be the preferred term.

Exactly. Though some might say re-formed.

Quite correct, although I have seen some squadrons that needed reforming.

Banned Phrases: The Aircrew Dictionary (of unacceptable cliche and overused phrases)
Try this,
I have just looked and the formatting was awful, but the info is still there.
It dates from 2001 and is VERY light hearted but may give you ideas

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No, I was only think about one grocer ;)

Billetting -= does not exist
transportation = ​​​​MT
Commisary = nix
BX = nix
Touch and Go = Roller
Low and Go = Overshoot
Huge number of diffs name for same facilities really