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Salkit Supplemental airfield lighting kit.
salmon 1 Streamlined bulge forming tip to wing of
aircraft having centreline gear and no outrigger (eg
sailplane); designed to withstand rubbing on ground.
2 Streamlined fairing on wingtip for purpose other than
housing fuel (applied to Su-25 where * incorporates
airbrakes; not used for EW tip pods so far).
Salomon damper Dynamic damper for crankshaft
balance weights to remove oscillatory loads.
SALR Saturated adiabatic lapse-rate.
SALS 1 Short approach-light system; F adds with
flashing lights, R with runway alignment indicator lights
(FAA).
2 Separate-access landing system.
3 Shipborne aircraft landing system.
4 Service de l’Aviation Légère et Sportive (F).
SALT Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (* I 26 May
1972, * II 18 June 1979).
salted weapon NW which has, in addition to normal
components, extra elements or isotopes which capture
neutrons at time of explosion and produce additional
radioactive products; generally, opposite to clean NW.
Salthorse Commander of a carrier despite being a nonaviator
(RN, colloq.).
Salti Synthetic-aperture lidar for tactical imaging.
Salto di Quirra NATO air firing range, including AAA
and SAMs, in Sardinia.
salvage 1 To scrap complete aircraft or other equipment
but recover parts or material.
2 To retrieve aircraft after landing away from any
airfield.
3 To retrieve potentially dangerous flight situation, eg
high rate of sink.
salvo 1 Simultaneous group of ECM bursts, esp. from
dispensed payloads; not necessarily all of same species, eg
could be two chaff, one IR, one jammer.
2 In close air support/interdiction, method of delivery
in which all weapons of specific type are released or fired
simultaneously (DoD).
3 See salvos.
salvos Air-intercept code: “I am about to open fire”; can
add further word specifying weapon(s), eg * mushroom =
“I am about to fire special weapon”, ie Genie (DoD).
SAM 1 Surface-to-air missile.
2 School of Aerospace Medicine (USAF).
3 Sound-absorbing material(s).
4 Standard (or standardized) assembly module.
5 Société Aérostatique et Météorologique, 1865 (F).
6 Special Air Missions squadron (USAF).
7 Standard avionic module.
8 Structural analysis and maintenance.
9 South American region, /SAT adds South Atlantic
(ICAO).
10 Situational-awareness mode.
11 Structural-anomaly mapping.
SAMA 1 Small Aircraft Manufacturers’ Association
(US).
2 Systema aeronautico modulare anti-cendio (I).
3 Semi-automated manoeuvre analysis.
Samar, SAMAR Search and maritime rescue.
samarium Sm, rare-earth metal, density 7.52, MPt
1,077°C, alloying element in magnets.
SAMD Stratospheric aerosol measurement device.
SAMF Société Aérostatique et Météorologique de
SANDF
France [1852, in 1863 merged wuth SdA to form SFNA]
(F).
SAMI System-acquisition management inspection.
Samir Système d’alerte missile IR (F).
SAMM 1 English form of VSMI, SSCM.
2 Surface-area movement management (TCAS).
Samoa Système aérotransportable mobile pour les
opérations aériennes (F).
Samoc SAM operations center.
Samos, SAMOS 1 Stacked-gate avalanche-injection
MOS.
2 Satellite and missile observation system.
SAMP Sol-air [or système d’autodéfense] moyenne
portée [short-range SAM]; / N adds navale, T terrestre
[land] (F).
Sampe, SAMPE Originally Society of Aerospace
Material and Process Engineers, now Society for the
Advancement of Material and Process Engineering
[office, Covina, CA91724–3751] (US).
sampled recording Automatic switching so that many
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