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Calow
(liquid or granules); gives protection in high-temperature
use.
Calow Contingency and limited objective warfare.
Calpa Canadian Air Line Pilots’ Association [office,
Brampton, ON].
Calrod Electric heater [many types] fitting inside shafts
of FCS or other mechanisms.
Cals, CALS 1 Computer-aided logistics support.
2 Computer-aided acquisition and logistic [or lifetime]
support.
3 Continuous acquisition and life-cycle support.
4 Carrier aircraft-landing system.
Calsel Proposed Selcal modification in which signal is
combined with a gating tone to produce automatic
receiver function.
CALT China Academy of Launch-vehicle Technology,
Beijing.
Caltech California Institute of Technology, Pasadena,
name since 1920, founded 1891 as Throop Polytechnic
Institute.
Calthrop Patented designs of aircrew parachute,
c1917–.
CalVer Calibration verification.
Calvert lighting Original system of crossbar approach
lighting.
CAM 1 Cockpit angle measure (flight deck vision limitations
expressed as angles).
2 Catapult armed merchantman (UK ships, 1941–43).
3 Chemical-agent munition (or monitor).
4 Circulation aérienne militaire (F).
5 Computer-assisted manufacture, or computer-aided
manufacturing.
6 Conventional attack missile.
7 Content-addressable memory.
8 Counter-air missile.
9 Centre of Aviation Medicine (RAF).
10 Commercial, or Contract, Air Mail routes (US, from
1926).
11 Cockpit audio monitoring.
12 Cabin assignment module (CIDS, later FAP).
13 Civil Aeronautics Manual (US).
14 Control-actuator mechanism.
15 Continued airworthiness management.
cam Rotating or oscillating member having profiled
surface to impart linear motion to second member in
contact with it.
CAMA Civil Aviation Medical Association (US, office
Oklahoma City).
CAMAA Commercial application of military airlift
aircraft (USAF).
camber 1 Generally, curvature of surface in airflow.
2 Curvature of aerofoil section, locus of points
measured along centreline or upper or lower surface at 90°
to camber line itself, positive when centreline is arched in
direction of lift force (see upper *, lower *, centreline *,
conical *, reflex *, mean *, local*).
3 Centreline of aerofoil.
4 Inclination of landing wheels away from vertical
plane.
cambered blade Helicopter main-rotor blade incorporating
camber, instead of having symmetric profile.
cambered Krüger Krüger having flexible profile to
increase camber when open.
Camps
cambered wing Wing section whose centreline is not
coincident with chord.
CAMBS Command active multi-beam sonobuoy.
Camden Co-operative air and missile defense exercise
network.
CAMDS Chemical agent munitions disposal system.
CAME Continuing airworthiness management
exposition.
CAMEA Canadian Aircraft Maintenance Engineers’
Association.
Camel Cartridge-activated miniature electromagnetic
Camera axis Perpendicular to film plane through
optical centre of lens system.
camera gun Camera, usually colour ciné, aimed at target
with aircraft gun and operated by gun-firing circuit; used
to provide combat confirmation, intelligence information
and, with unloaded gun(s), as training aid.
camera obscura Dark room equipped with lens
projecting image of external scene on to wall or floor
(formerly used as bombing target with roof lens for
recording of bomb release position).
camera recorder One or more cameras arranged to
provide continuous film of instrument panel or similar
data source.
camera tube TV converter of optical scan into electrical
video signals (Orthicon etc).
CAMF Christian Airmen’s Missionary Fellowship,
became MAF).
camfax Camera facsimile, especially for synoptic charts.
cam follower Driven member in sliding or rolling
contact with cam.
CAMI 1 Computer-aided (or -assisted) manufacturing
and inspection.
2 Civil Aerospace Medical Institute [originally CARI],
Oklahoma City (US).
Camic, CAMIC Civil Aviation Management Institute
of China.
Camir Centre for Aviation Maintenance and Inspection
Reliability (US).
CAML Cargo-aircraft minelayer.
cam lobe Profiled projection from straight or circular
baseline.
Camloc handle Patented self-tightening latch for
cowlings and skin access panels.
CAMMS Co-operative aggregate mission-management
system, for multiple UAVs.
CAMM2 Computer-aided maintenance-management
system, Version 2.
CAMOA Continued airworthiness management organisation
approval.
Camos Computer-aided meteorological observing
system.
camouflage Attempt to change appearance to mislead
enemy, esp. by concealment with portable material or
painting to reduce visual contrast with background.
camouflage detection photography Use of film whose
spectral response differs from that of human eye (eg IRsensitive).
campaign fire An enormous forest or other fire calling
for the assembly of large resources.
Campbell diagram Plot of natural frequencies against
rpm for rotating part.
Camps Civil-aircraft missile protection system, [i.e.,
protection against missiles].
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