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Amdar
Amdar, AMDAR Automated mission data airborne
recording.
AMDB Airport-mapping database.
AMDP Air Member for Development and Production
(UK, WW2)
AMDS 1 Automatic manoeuvre device system.
2 Anti-missile discarding sabot.
AMDSS Airborne mine-detection and survival system
(USN).
amdt Amendment (FAA).
AMDWS Air and missile defense work station (USA,
USAF).
AME 1 Authorised medical examiner.
2 Alternate [alternative is meant] mission equipment.
3 Air Mobility Element (USAF).
4 Angle-measuring equipment.
5 Amplitude-modulation equivalent, or equipment.
6 Aircraft, multi-engine [L adds land, S sea].
7 Aviation Maintenance Engineers Association
[Fredericton, NB, Canada].
AMEA Aircraft Maintenance Engineers Association
(US).
AMEC Advanced multifunction embedded computer.
AMeDAS Automated met data-acquisition system (J).
AMEL 1 Active-matrix electroluminescent [D adds
display].
2 Aircraft maintenance engineer’s licence.
amended clearance Clearance altered by ATC while
flight en route, typically requesting change of altitude or
hold, to avoid future conflict unforeseen when clearance
filed.
American National Family of 60° screw (bolt) threads,
basically divided into National Coarse (NC), National
Fine (NF) and National Special (N), which have in part
superseded SAE and ASME profiles.
AMES 1 Airborne mission-equipment subsystem.
2 Advanced multiple-environment simulator.
Ames Major NASA laboratory, full title Ames
Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., mainly associated
with atmospheric flight (from 1939).
AMET 1 Advanced military engine(s) technology.
2 Accelerated mission endurance test.
AMF 1 Allied [Command Europe] Mobile Force [-A
adds Air].
2 Armé Marin & Flygfilm (Sweden).
3 Airborne maritime and fixed [radio stations].
AMFA Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association
[office, St Ann, MO] (US).
AMFI Aviation Maintenance Foundation
International [office, Basin, WY] (US).
AMF-JTRS Airborne and maritime fixed-station joint
tactical radio system (USAF/USN).
AMFP Adaptive matched-field processor, or
processing.
AMG 1 Antenna mast group.
2 Aero mission gear.
AMGCS Advanced movements guidance control
system (airport).
AMHF American Military Heritage Foundation.
AMHMS Advanced magnetic helmet-mounted system.
AMHS Aeronautical message handling system.
AMI 1 Airline modifiable information.
2 Avionics midlife improvement.
A/MI Airspeed/Mach indicator.
AMMTIAC
AMICS Adaptive multidimensional integrated control
system.
AMID 1 Airborne mine[field] detection [ARS adds and
reconnaissance system, S adds system].
2 Airport management and information display [S adds
system].
Amids, AMIDS 1 Advanced missile-detection system.
2 Airport management information and display
system.
AMII Air manoeuvre information infrastructure.
AMIK Automtic target-recognition system (Sweden).
AMIMU Advanced multisensor inertial measurement
unit.
amino Group –NH 2 which can replace hydrogen atom
in hydrocarbon radical to yield amino acids; these play
central role in metabolic pathways of living organisms;
thus of interest in space exploration.
AMIPS Adaptive multiple-image projector system.
AMIR 1 Air Mission Intelligence Report, detailed and
complete report on results of air mission.
2 Anti-missile infra-red.
AMIRS Advanced multirole IR sensor.
AMIS 1 Anti-materiel incendiary submunition.
2 Aircraft-movement identification section.
AMIZ Australian Maritime Identification Zone [up to
1,000 n.m. planned].
AMJ Advisory material joint.
AMK 1 FAA-approved airplane modification kit.
2 Anti-misting kerosene.
AML 1 Adaptive manoeuvring logic.
2 Aeronautical Materials Laboratory (USN, established
1935).
3 Admiralty Materials Laboratory (Holton Heath).
4 Approved model list (FAA).
AMLCD Active-matrix [or advanced multifunction]
liquid-crystal display.
AMM 1 Aircraft maintenance manual.
2 Aircraft maintenance and modification.
3 Anti-missile missile.
AMMC Aeronautical materiel management center.
AMMCS Airborne multiservice/multimedia communications
system.
ammeter Instrument for measuring electric current (d.c.
or a.c., or both in case of ‘universal testers’) with reading
usually given in amperes.
AMMF Approximate model-management framework[s].
AMMM Affordable multi-missile manufacturing
[program].
ammo Ammunition (UK colloq.).
Ammod, AMMOD Automatic man-made object detection
(UAV).
Ammonal High explosive (AMMONium nitrate +
ALuminium, and often finely divided carbon).
ammonia NH 3 , gas at ISA SL, pungent, toxic, present in
atmosphere of Jupiter (ice crystals and vapour) and more
distant planets (frozen solid). Ammonium chloride in ‘dry
batteries’, nitrate in many explosives, perchlorate plasticised
propellants in large solid rocket motors, sulphate
soldering and brazing flux and in dry cells, and several
compounds in fireproofing.
AMMP Attack-mission management processing.
AMMTIAC Advanced Materials Manufacturing
Training and Information Analysis Center (USAF).
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