[Healeys] Tango Uniform

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adj b slang: military phonetic alphabet for letters btb and bub,
used as
euphemistic abbreviation for btits upb.
etymology: from military aviation, where the flight attitude indicator on the
aircraft instrument panel contained a miniature representation of an airplane
which showed the flight attitude b climb, dive, bank; one style of the
indicator was shaped with bvb forms between the bdotb b representing
the fuselage
(body) and the bdashesb b representing the wings; (bv*vb see illus.)
the bvb
s were frequently referred to as btitsb; the term referred to the
potentially hazardous inverted flight condition b bupside downb b
where the btitsb
would be seen as being bupb.
bDonbt get btango uniformb!b


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