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Acronyms

Military Aviation Acronyms

Space Acronyms

Covers Boeing, Airbus, and FAA acronyms. It's a useful aid for everyone from student pilots to airline pilots new to an airliner to casual enthusiasts wanting to decode the alphabet soup of acronyms in an aviation magazine or novel.

Operationally focused, covering the terminology in common use in the US military aviation services, including the Air Force, Navy, and Marines. It also contains a healthy collection of collateral acronyms used by associated ground forces. The databases included also cover the myriad of terms associated with command structures, NATO, and Space Command. There is also a unique "Slang" section, which covers a great many informal terms that have fallen into common use. This section also includes the slang terms for various kinds of aircraft (e.g., F-16 as "lawn dart"). Lastly, there is an "Aircraft Ident" database, with the official US common names and their designators.

This is an invaluable aid for pilots, ground support personnel, and anyone else dealing with military aviation, including enthusiasts. Can also help a lot when reading a military-spnovel.

Covers some 15,000 acronyms from the Apollo and STS eras, as well as terms used by ArianeSpace, Boeing, Energia, and the USAF Space Command.

Invaluable for anyone visiting a space museum, NASA facility, tour directors, astronauts, and students of space flight.

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The databases are clearly presented, showing the acronym, definition, and which database it came from.

You can search by entering a term, or just thumb down to the approximate location and scroll.

The databases may be configured through a convenient Settings function, allowing one to select the specific type of information you're interested in at the time.

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