Script on LN Eagle 91-0332

[slogen51]

Just a bit of trivia really but since 91-0332 has returned from deployment recently some extra letters have appeared on the fins :-

on the Left/starboard fin the letters "AEW" and "EMXS" on the port tail:-

91-0332 Raider 22 EMXS Lakenheath 14-11-17 by Mike B, on Flickr

wondering what the meanings are?

[plmc135]

Shame the photo show EMXS Mike Apparently it stands for Expeditionary Maintenance Squadron and AEW usually stands for Airborne Early Warning.

[POL]

AEW = Air Expeditionary Wing

EMXS = Expititionary Maintenance Squadron

[Seahornet1]

...on the Left/starboard fin the letters "AEW" and "EXMS" on the port tail...

Port is left (both four letters) and starboard is right (both longer than four letters)...

[Seahornet1]

...EMXS = Expititionary Maintenance Squadron

Wonder why the X is after the M, then...?

[POL]

MX = maintenance

Bit like WX is weather

[Seahornet1]

MX = maintenance

Bit like WX is weather

... and TX is transmitter, and RX is receiver, etc...

I should have thought of that, thanks!!

[big john]

Extreme pedantism, only Naval aviators use left and right on aircraft. so as to avoid confusion when working with ships.

[slogen51]

...on the Left/starboard fin the letters "AEW" and "EXMS" on the port tail...

Port is left (both four letters) and starboard is right (both longer than four letters)...

D'oh and I googled it to look clever! And that was before I went to the pub! KO

[slogen51]

AEW = Air Expeditionary Wing

EMXS = Expititionary Maintenance Squadron

Cheers

[paddyboy]

Well caught Mike

That's 4 things I have learned from this post

What those two sets of letters mean, and (finally) what sides Port and Starboard are to a landlubber like me

Cheers

Paddyboy

[stickshaker]

Extreme pedantism, only Naval aviators use left and right on aircraft. so as to avoid confusion when working with ships.

Actually, we went away from port and starboard in the RAF a long time ago - a bit tricky at the time changing ingrained habits but it did bring us into line with most of the rest of the world.

[Tiga1050]

...on the Left/starboard fin the letters "AEW" and "EXMS" on the port tail...

Port is left (both four letters) and starboard is right (both longer than four letters)...

D'oh and I googled it to look clever! And that was before I went to the pub! KO

Regardless of who uses which method, port = left and starboard = right. The picture at the start of this thread featured a view of the right / starboard fin.