What does FAB mean?
What does FAB mean in regards to the series?
shareFAB comes from the popular 1960's use of the shortenned term FAB for FABULOUS
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What does FAB mean in regards to the series?
If you mean in the "context" of the series, the letters don't stand for anything, but International Rescue uses "FAB" to mean the same as another pilot saying "Roger" or "copy that" or (sometimes) "affirmative." If you listen to the many ways in which the phrase is used, it often affirms that they've heard and understood the previous remark said to them (not just the final remark said). It's also used as an interjection at times (Scott does this when he's flirting with Penny, for example).
Fans keep trying to apply a meaning to the initials, but they never had an official meaning within the series and simply came from the shortened version of "fabulous." However, Stingray's "PWOR" meant "Proceding With Orders Received" and Captain Scarlet's "SIG" meant "Spectrum Is Green" (or, in other words, GO)! share
I read somewhere FAB meant fully acknowledged broadcast.
shareSorry, but some fan made that up; the Andersons have both said that the initials don't stand for anything. The Tracys couldn't "fully acknowledge" a broadcast when they were often still in the middle of sending and receiving information or, just as common, merely commenting on how cool something happened to be. Sometimes it was used as pilots use "Roger," or "Affirmative," but just as often it's used as an interjection. Rarely is it said as a final remark.
"F.A.B" as it exists in the series doesn't stand for anything, but lots of people seem to have fun trying to force a meaning on it anyway.
Fab means 'forward all birds".
Gerry 1st heard the the term while he was in the Royal Air Force during the mid 50s, he was told it was a code word used by the USAF during WW2, it was sent to hundreds of American bombers at the same time to send them on their way to bomb Germany, this was once all the planes from up to a dozen different airfields had met up in the sky. The idea was for so many was safety in numbers, ie more dificult for German fighters to shoot the down.