feet dry en · X
Meanings
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Flying over land.
The aircraft headed “feet-dry” by the pilot's judicious use of rudders and afterburners.
1979, Approach, volume 24, number 11:Feet wet: Fighter direction brevity code used to report that a plane had left land ("feet dry") and was now over water.
1994, Paul T. Gillcrist, Tomcat!: The Grumman F-14 Story, page 196: