Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cepu.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!hao!hplabs!sdcrdcf!trwrba!cepu!scw From: scw@cepu.UUCP (Stephen C. Woods) Newsgroups: net.columbia,net.aviation Subject: Re: No joy? Message-ID: <370@cepu.UUCP> Date: Wed, 10-Oct-84 18:43:01 EDT Article-I.D.: cepu.370 Posted: Wed Oct 10 18:43:01 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Oct-84 01:25:22 EDT References: <586@ihlts.UUCP> <177@resonex.UUCP> Reply-To: scw@cepu.UUCP (Stephen C. Woods) Organization: VA Wadsworth Med. Center; LA CA Lines: 51 Summary: In article <177@resonex.UUCP> tggsu@resonex.UUCP (Tom Gulvin Root) writes: >Let's see... I think that 'No Joy' means that no target was aquired during a >search operation by a fighter pilot (scenario: Ground controller: >'target .5 km ahead, angels 45'. Pilot: 'No joy'). > >Others that I've read about: > 'Tally Ho!' - In general, used to mark fighter responsibilities > among wingmen and to acknowledge an attack order. > I recall that some fighter competitions were called > 'tally ho' in the '60s or '70s. Also to indicate to the ground controller or other A/C that a target has been spotted. (The inverse of 'no joy'). > 'Below bingo' - condition of a thirsty fighter prior to air > refueling. (does anyone know what 'bingo' means?). Yes, a light comes on indicating that there is less that n (for some small n) min of fuel remaining. > >Does anyone else here watch ABC's "Call to Glory" TV show? They really seem >to be making an effort at a quality series about life in the USAF test >area in the '60s. Even thoug[...]ries that includes a husband/wife >relationship with children and daily problems and career struggles and >neighbors and plausible plot lines and... I got turned off on this show by the add during the Olympics. Guess I'll have to take a shot at it. Another term that I just remembered is 'Winchester', used by ground attack aircraft to indicate that they have expended all of their ordanace. Musk-ox 8 (FAC): Roger Boxcar 1, that really cleaned their clocks. I got another target for ya. Boxcar 1 (F4D): Sorry Muskox, Boxcar 1&2 are RTB, Winchester. Mx 8: OK Boxcar 1, thanks for the show. Boxcar 3, Muskox 8, over. BC 3 (Leader of next flight): Roger Muskox, We're at FL 300, be down in 3, 2 F4s, wall to wall snakes, send your target, over. Snakes are Snake-Eyes a general purpose 250 Lb bomb with high drag fins added to aid in low altitude delivery (sorta keeps the plane from getting blown up by its own bomb). -- Stephen C. Woods (VA Wadsworth Med Ctr./UCLA Dept. of Neurology) uucp: { {ihnp4, uiucdcs}!bradley, hao, trwrb, sdcrdcf}!cepu!scw ARPA: cepu!scw@ucla-cs location: N 34 3' 9.1" W 118 27' 4.3"