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C-wing Blended wing/body.
CA 1 Controller Aircraft; holder of this office is also
Deputy Chief of Defence Procurement (UK).
2 Controlled airspace.
3 Cabin attendant[s] (airline costings).
4 Conversion angle.
5 Circuit analog.
6 Cruiser, gun armed [can have SAM secondary armament]
(USN).
7 Cetyl alcohol, a lubricant.
8 Control advises.
9 Conflict alert.
10 Component availability.
C/A 1 Coarse acquisition (GPS).
2 Course acquisition.
CAA 1 Civil Aviation Authority [1972–, said to mean
‘campaign against aviation’; London WC2B 6TE] (UK).
2 Civil Aeronautics Authority [1938–40] (US).
3 Civil Aeronautics Administration [1940–58, part of
Department of Commerce, became FAA] (US).
4 Civil Aviation Administration (Israel).
5 Conformal-array antenna, or aerial.
6 Chromic-acid anodizing.
7 Cargo Airline Association (US).
8 Component application architecture.
9 Continued airworthiness assessment (FAA).
CAAA 1 CAA(1) Approved.
2 Commuter Airlines Association of America, also
called C3A or C-triple-A, and now the RAA.
3 Canadian Aviation Artists Association.
CAAC Civil Aviation Administration of China, from
1964.
CAACU Civilian Anti-Aircraft Co-operation Unit
(UK, various dates 1950–71).
CAADRP Civil Aircraft Airworthiness Data
Requirements [originally Recording] Programme (UK).
CAAFI 1 Commercial aviation alternative fuels initiative
(Int.).
2 CAA(1) of the Fiji Islands.
CAAFU CAA(1) Flying Unit, originally for navaid calibration,
now examines candidates for licences.
CAAG CFIT/ALAR Action Group (FSF).
CAAM Continued airworthiness assessment methodologies
(FAA).
CAAP Common avionics architecture for penetration.
CAARC Commonwealth Advisory Aeronautical
Research Council (Int., office in London).
CAARP Cooperatives des Ateliers Aéronautiques des la
Région Parisienne (formed 1965).
CAAS 1 Computer-assisted approach sequencing.
2 Common avionics- [sometimes translated as aviation]
architecture system.
3 Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore.
CAASA Commercial Aviation Association of Southern
Africa [office, Johannesburg].
CAASD Center for Advanced Aviation System
Development (Mitre Corpn.).
CAASP Common avionics architecture system
program (USSOF).
CAASS Computer-aided aircrew scheduling system
(USAF).
CAATER Co-ordinated access to aircraft for
transitional environmental research (EU).
CAATS 1 Computer-assisted aircraft trouble-shooting.
CACA
2 Canadian automated ATC system.
3 Computer-aided aerodrome training suites.
CAAV CAA of Vietnam.
CAAVTS Compact airborne automatic video tracking
system.
CAAZ CAA of Zimbabwe.
CAB 1 Civil Aeronautics Board (US, 1940–84).
2 Common avionics baseline.
cab 1 Structure containing cockpit of large aircraft,
often excluding nose.
2 Airport tower, especially workplace of controllers.
CABA Consolidated agile-beam antenna.
cabane Structure of braced struts used to carry load
above fuselage or wing, such as upper wing of biplane or
parasol wing, engine nacelle or bracing wires to wingtips.
cabin 1 Enclosure for aircraft occupants; today excludes
cockpit or flight deck.
2 Occupied part of simulator, with or without motion.
cabin altitude Altitude corresponding to pressure inside
cabin.
cabin blower In some pressurized aircraft, shaft-driven
cabin blower, also called cabin supercharger.
CabinCall First certificated system allowing use of
mobile phone, initially on business aircraft.
cabin crew Staff who attend to passengers in flight.
cabin distribution system Links CTV with passenger and
crew telephone and data terminals.
cabin file server Links CMU to ISVSs and POSTs.
cabin fog Caused when cold dry input hits warmer
humid cabin air.
cabin pressure Ambiguous; can mean absolute pressure
inside aircraft or pressure differential (dP) between cabin
and surrounding atmosphere.
cabin supercharger See cabin blower.
cabin telecommunications unit A complex PBX for
satcoms, to Arinc 746.
cable 1 Non-SI unit of length, = 2.1945610 –2 m,
2 Traditional term for filament for winch or other
surface launch of glider, irrespective of material.
cable cutter One-shot guillotine, powered by cartridge,
on wing leading edge to cut barrage cables.
cable-drag drop Low-level airdrop with load extracted
and arrested by ground cable installation.
cable hover Design requirement for ASW helicopter
autopilot while dunking.
cable-strike protection See wire-strike protection system.
cabotage Freedom of air transport operator to pick up
or set down traffic in (usually foreign) country for hire or
reward.
cabrage Rotation of aeroplane about lateral axis to
increase angle of attack (obs.).
cab-rank patrol Close air-support technique in which
instead of striking designated targets or targets of opportunity,
aircraft loiter awaiting assignments from surface
forces.
CABS Centre for Airborne Systems (DRDO).
cabs, CABS Cockpit air-bag system [USA/Simula].
CAC 1 Combat Air Command.
2 Combat-assessment capability.
3 Computer acceleration control.
4 Centralised approach control.
5 Caution advisory computer.
6 Ciurse acquisition code.
CACA National certification authority (Poland).
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