I have made this answer a community wiki, so we can avoid pointshopping and flood of condlicting answer. Only edit this if you are sure of what you think you know. **Kick the tires and light the fires** ---------- This phrase refers to the pre flight inspection, *kicking the tires*, a pilot performs on his/her aircraft before hopping in and starting the engines, the *fires* part comes from old planes having very short exhaust manifolds, so flames could often be seen at the tips of the headers on startup with fuel priming and rich fuel setting. ---------- **Cookers** ---------- ---------- **Bird** ---------- Copy Shot ---------- ---------- Dirty up ---------- ---------- Hot rock ---------- ---------- Chop and drop ---------- ---------- Running on fumes ---------- ---------- Conga line ---------- ---------- Dry/wet feet ---------- ---------- Bag= flight suit ---------- Use of Bag to describe the flight suit comes from it's saggy fit. The fabric, at least in older ones, was certainly not stretchy, so the form of the suit had to be such, that it felt comfortable when sitting and operating knobs, buttons and such in cockpit. This, unfortunately, made the suits look saggy and baggy when the pilot was posing heroicly by the aircraft... ----------