MMFD

On an early training mission a British Tornado had been asked by the air-traffic controller whether it had reached a certain turning-point. The pilot replied that he had not: he was still over MMFD.

 

As time went by, many American pilots heard of this place and scoured their maps to find it. It was a puzzle for two reasons: the British apparently spent a lot of time over it and it was not located on any American air map.

 

The theory was floated it might be a mishearing of KKMC which stood for King Khaled Military City, a large Saudi basee. This was discounted and the search went on. Finally the Americans gave up. Wherever MMFD was to be found, it was simply not on the war maps supplied by to USAF squadrons by their planners in Riyadh.

Eventually the Tornado pilots admitted the secret of MMFD. It stood for ‘miles and miles of fucking desert’

 

The Fist of God, Chapter thirteen, Frederick Forsyth