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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: "Below Bingo" (a guess)
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Date: Thu, 11-Oct-84 10:39:48 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 11 10:39:48 1984
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Regarding the meaning of "Bingo" in the phrase "Below Bingo", indicating
low-on-fuel: Is there not a low-fuel warning system that includes an
audible warning alarm, which might be implemented as a bell or tone? If
this is (or was, at one time) a bell, which could be characterized as
"going 'bing'", than "below bing-o" would mean that the alarm has sounded
and you need fuel NOW!

(Seems reasonable, but reason has little to do with such jargon...)

(And now, I suppose the audible alarm is one of those recorded or
synthesized voices which calmly announce "Fuel low" in a sexy female
voice...)