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Aviation

Dealing with vehicles or machines used in flight or propulsion through the air.

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tactical air navigation (TACAN)

Aviation; Avionics

A basic guidance mode, providing lateral guidance to a TACAN station; Equipment that determines range and bearing to a radio station with a TACAN transmitter.

terrain avoidance (TA)

Aviation; Avionics

Flight of an aircraft that maintains a constant barometric altitude but flies around obstacles.

terrain following (TF)

Aviation; Avionics

A basic guidance mode that provides vertical guidance to maintain an operator selected radar altitude above the terrain. Flight such that the aircraft tries to maintain a constant ...

marker beacon

Aviation; Avionics

A transmitter operating at 75 MHz that provides identification of a particular position along an airway or on the approach to an instrument runway. The marker beacon is ...

mean time between failures (MTBF)

Aviation; Avionics

A performance indicator calculated by dividing the total unit of flying hours (airborne) accrued over a period of time by the number of unit failures that occurred during the same ...

rabbit tracks

Aviation; Avionics

(1) Also called running rabbits which refer to the distinctive display produced by another (alien radar) radar system transmission. (2) The small dots that remain on the display ...