| Acceptance, airplane |
Receipt of legal title by the resident factory representative of
the procuring party
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| Accident, aircraft |
An event involving one or more military aircraft that occurs
while the aircraft is engaged in any phase of aerial flight and
which results in death or major injury to persons or damage to
aircraft which requires ten or more man-hours of labor to remove,
repair and replace the damaged part or assembly
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| Aircraft |
Any type of airplane or glider.
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| Airframe weight |
Empty weight of an airplane less the following government
furnished equipment: engines, propellers, wheels, brakes, tires and
tubes, auxiliary power plant, turbo-superchargers, radio receivers
and transmitters, starters, batteries, generators, turrets and
power-operated gun mounts.
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| Airplane, combat |
Any type of bomber, fighter or reconnaissance airplane.
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| Airplane, first-line |
One suited to perform the mission for which it was originally
intended.
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| Airplane, military |
One produced for the use of the armed forces or a commercial
airplane seating twelve or more passengers.
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| Airplane, miscellaneous |
One employed for such a non-tactical purpose as administrative
or training flights.
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| Airplane, second-line |
One no longer considered operational due to such factors as age
and obsolescence.
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| Airplane, total |
All types of bomber, fighter, reconnaissance, transport, trainer
and communications airplanes.
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| Cognizance |
Responsibility for negotiating for and inspecting the airplane
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| Delivery, airplane |
Transfer of possession from the resident representative of the
procuring agency to a representative of the Air Transport Command,
a public carrier or another transporting agency.
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| Personnel in bulk allotment |
Personnel authorized to AAF activities in the form of a group of
individuals rather than by Tables of Organization and Equipment.
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| Personnel in committed units |
Personnel in units manned and equipped under a Table of
Organization and Equipment and scheduled to be shipped overseas at
a known date.
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| Personnel, field students |
Enlisted personnel being trained on the job to fill any air
force personnel requirement except the performance of permanent
duties in the Continental US.
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| Personnel in permanent party |
Personnel performing regular and recurring duties in Continental
US.
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| Personnel casualties, missing, interned and
captured |
Include also personnel formerly missing but returned and
personnel formerly interned and captured and repatriated.
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| Personnel casualties, wounded and evacuated |
Include also personnel formerly wounded but recovered and
returned to duty.
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| Sortie |
An airplane airborne on a mission against the enemy.
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| Sortie, effective |
One which carries out the purpose of the mission.
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| Sortie, non-effective |
One which for any reason fails to carry out the purpose of the
mission.
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| Training, pre-flight |
The initial training given to pilots, bombardiers, and
navigators to acquaint them with the fundamentals of flight.
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| Training, primary |
Training give to pilots subsequent to pre-flight training and
consisting of military instruction, academic instruction in ground
school and a specified number of hours of instruction in a
single-engine trainer airplane.
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| Training, basic |
Training given to pilots subsequent to primary training and
consisting of further military and ground instruction and a
specified number of hours of instruction in trainer aircraft more
powerful than those used in primary training.
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| Training, advanced |
Training given to pilots subsequent to basic training and
consisting of further military, ground and flying instruction, the
latter in training aircraft more powerful than those previously
used.
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| Training, transition |
Training given to pilots subsequent to advanced training and
designed to teach them to fly the particular model airplane they
are to fly in combat.
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