What is the governing principle of IP in military aviation?
In Catch-22 I found the mention of the abbreviation “IP”.
One of the surprising things always was the sense of calm and utter silence, broken only by the test rounds fired by the machine guns, by an occasional toneless, terse remark over the intercom, and, finally, by the sobering pronouncement of the bombardier in each plane that they were fully at the IP and about to turn toward the target.
What does IP mean?
I could not find anything that makes sense in Wikipedia. In the context of
Wikipedia I did not find anything that would make sense in the context of Wikipedia. The Wikipedia doesn’t have any metadata or references; there is an online library for this purpose.
According to the following list of military aviation
terms: IP – Initial Point – the last navigation way point for a strike aircraft before beginning a bomb run. The weapons officer controlled the aircraft Usually from the I.P. to the target What does
seem to match up to the context of the quote in the question.
