B A R R Y wrote in news:tTPhk.18342$Ri.7069
@flpi146.ffdc.sbc.com:

Bertie the Bunyip wrote:

That'd be "Airborne"

I can't count the times I've hear instructors say:

"I want to be be wheels-up by 1930..." To tell a student to be ready to
be ready to go.

Maybe it's regional, but I don't think so!


Nah, it's common enough. it's further of evidence of terminology going down
the ****ter.


Bertie