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GIB
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gib GiB Gib.
Translingual
Symbol
1 3 Gibraltar
mul GI ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 alpha-2
mul Gibraltar
English
Pronunciation
en individual letters or one syllable?
Noun
en aviation slang en guy in back someone who sits in the back of a jet.
en backseater
en Lynda Twyman Paffrath Angels Unknown San Mateo, C.A. Lightbourne Books 2002 257 https://archive.org/details/angelsunknownsto0000paff/page/257/mode/1up 978-0-971-29655-8 You undoubtedly know that each F-4 Phantom jet carried two pilots in separate, tandem cockpits. Major Dennis Harper was the frontseater and was the AC or Aircraft Commander. Jim was the backseater or the GIB.
en Mike McCarthy Phantom Reflections: The Education of an American Fighter Pilot in Vietnam Westport, C.T.; Lonton w:Praeger Security International 2007 154 https://archive.org/details/phantomreflectio0000mcca/page/154/mode/1up 0-275-99327-2 When I originally checked out in the airplane, we got a few orientation rides in the backseat to familiarize us with the systems, but I was not very knowledgeable about all their intricacies. I came to have a much better appreciation of what the GIBs had to put up with in the back.
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