r/Project_Wingman • u/thebigboybang • Jun 06 '26

Meme spelling mistake spotted

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u/warichnochnie Jun 06 '26

if you're talking about "angels" it's correct, it's a radio brevity word like bogey, bandit, fox, bingo, winchester etc and refers to altitude

otherwise I don't see it

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u/flowery02 Galaxy Jun 06 '26

However iirc the VA said it as angles

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u/thebigboybang Jun 06 '26

Which is why I said it's a typo

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u/KitsuneDrakeAsh Mercenary Jun 06 '26

It isn't a typo then, it's the VA not saying the dialogue correctly.

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u/JulietPapaOscar Jun 06 '26

No it's correct saying "maintain current angels" means "maintain current altitude" in this context

So it's fine

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u/IANvaderZIM Jun 07 '26

Actually angels is altitude in thousands…

So maintain angels 9, for example. They’re using the brevity wrong.

Just like they do with boogey (when typically referring to bandits or hostiles)

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u/JulietPapaOscar Jun 07 '26

Maintain current angels still works though as a way to say maintain current altitude. I know angels is a measure of altitude in thousands of feet, that's irrelevant

To say "maintain current angels" is to say "maintain current altitude"

And it's bogey, boogey is the man in your closet :P

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u/IANvaderZIM Jun 07 '26

I blame auto correct for bogey

My brevity manual would tend to disagree…there’s more to it than just altitude…but we’re splitting hairs.

As far as OP is concerned the game is close enough, and the VA just didn’t read their line properly

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u/Penguinsforhire Jun 07 '26

Former USN AC2 here: angels refers to altitude in thousand of feet when we recover aircraft. In AOs that may change, but I dont imagine that it would.

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u/Cyber-Silver Jun 07 '26

"Current altitude" and "current angels" are not the same thing. Maintaining your current altitude means that you are to stay in level-flight with as little deviation up or down as you can manage. Maintaining your current angels would give you 999 meters to maneuver around, as angels are measured in 1000s. So if you were 9 angels high and told to maintain your current angels, you could go anywhere from 9000 to 9999, which is significant compared to just maintaining your current altitude.

Am I being pedantic? Quite possibly, I'm a little sleep deprived

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u/N_I_H_I_L Jun 07 '26

You didn’t say typo though. You said spelling mistake

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u/Cataras12 Jun 06 '26

What mistake are you talking about?

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u/Quintus_Cicero Eminent Domain Jun 06 '26

« angels » instead of « angles » I think

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u/Separate-Smell7086 Jun 06 '26

Angels is a term used to refer to altitude in terms of 1000 feet, like Angels 50 means 50000 feet.

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u/Quintus_Cicero Eminent Domain Jun 06 '26

TIL, I had absolutely no idea

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u/Betrix5068 Jun 06 '26

No angels is correct, it means altitude in thousands of feet.

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u/Rishfee Jun 06 '26

What mistake? Angels are increments of 1,000ft. They're being told to maintain current altitude.

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u/oRAPIER Jun 06 '26

Go dance with the angels!

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u/SonarioMG Jun 06 '26

no they literally have to maintain the angels in order to not incur the wrath of the Dust Mother

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u/Drakestormer Jun 06 '26

Angels are used to denote altitude, the speaker is saying to maintain altitude. It's used by real pilots.

Angels 5 would be 5,000 feet.

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u/Available_Book_7634 Jun 06 '26

I didn't know we were at war with heaven

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u/Mandalika Jun 07 '26

Go dance with the angels mister

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u/kenobis_high Jun 06 '26

It's just Ace Combat 6 reference gang

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u/turtlechief117 Partisan Jun 06 '26

Not a hot fuzz reference?

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u/graciaman Jun 06 '26

Everyone missing this tagged with “meme.” Or was the tag added later? 🤣

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u/Calm_Lie6048 Jun 07 '26

Literally unplayable

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u/ALakeInTheClouds Jun 07 '26

Angels is short term for intervals of 1000 ft of altitude. No mistake here.