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AETC
AETC Air Education & Training Command (USAF,
Randolph AFB, established 1 July 1993).
AETE Aerospace Engineering and Test Establishment
(Cold Lake, Alberta).
AETG Aircraft Environment Task Group [2004–]
(Balpa).
AETMS Airborne electronic terrain mapping system
(3-D colour-coded in real time, plan or elevation).
AETW AET (2) washed.
AEU 1 Airborne, or antenna, electronics unit.
2 Auxiliary equipment unit.
AEW 1 Airborne early warning.
2 Air [or airborne] electronic warfare.
3 Air Expeditionary Wing (USAF).
4 Aircraft empty weight.
AEWC, AEW&C, AEW + C Airborne early warning
and control.
AEW/EW Airborne early warning and electronic
warfare.
AEWF Airborne Early-Warning Force (NATO).
AEWS Airborne electronic-warfare system; hence
AEWS 2 means system of systems.
AEWTF Aircrew Electronic-Warfare Tactics Facility
(NATO).
AF, a.f. 1 Audio frequency, sounds audible to average
human ear (20 to 16,000 Hz). In simple radio communications
RF carrier is modulated so that it “carries” AF
superimposed upon basic waveform.
2 Aerodynamic force.
3 Auto-flight.
4 Airway facilities.
a/f 1 Airfield.
2 Airframe.
AF 3 Anti-fire fighting foam.
AFA 1 Air Force Association [office, Arlington, VA
22209–1198 (US).
2 Air Force Act (UK).
3 Aircraft Finance Association [office, Washington
DC] (US).
4 Association of Flight Attendants [office, Washington
DC 20005–4006] (US).
5 Audio-frequency amplifier.
6 Air Force Academy [Colorado Springs, Est. 1 April
1954] (USAF).
7 Air Freight Association [Washington DC] (US).
8 Academia de Força Aérea (Brazil).
AFAA 1 Air Force Audit Agency (1 July 1948, Norton
AFB, later Washington DC).
2 Airline Flight Attendants’ Assoc., Buellton CA.
AFAC Airborne forward air controller.
AFADS Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron
(USAF Thunderbirds).
AFAES Aviation facilities and aircraft engineering
support (MoD, UK).
AFAF Australian Federation of Airfreight Forwarders
[office Sydney].
AFAFC Air Force Accounting and Finance Center
(Lowry AFB).
AFAITC Armed Forces Air Intelligence Training
Center (Denver).
AFAL Air Force Armament Laboratory (Eglin AFB).
AFALC Air Force Acquisition Logistics Center
(Wright-Patterson AFB).
AFAMC See AMC(5).
AFCI
AFAMRL See AAMRL.
AFAP Australian Federation of Air Pilots [office South
Melbourne, Vic. 3205] (Australia).
AFAPD Air Force application[s] program, or protocol,
development.
Afarmade Associación Española de Fabricantes de
Armamento y Material de Defensa y Seguridad [E-28006
Madrid] (Spain).
AFARPS See ARPS.
AFAS Aircraft in the future air-traffic management
system.
AFASD Air Force Aeronautical Systems Division,
formerly part of AFSC, HQ Wright-Patterson AFB, now
Aeronautical Systems Center.
AFATC Air Force Air Transport Command (1942–47).
AFATL See AFAL, Tadded Testing.
AFAvL Air Force Avionics Laboratory, now Wright
Laboratory (Wright-Patterson AFB).
AFB 1 Air Force Base (USAF).
2 Air Force Board (RAF).
AFBCA Air Force Base Conversion Agency (Arlington,
Va, established 15 November 1991).
AFBMD Air Force Ballistic Missile Division, became
BMO.
AFC 1 Air Force Cross (decoration).
2 Aircraft flyaway cost.
3 Aramid-fibre composite.
4 Automatic-feedback control, for interlocking
coherent systems.
5 Audio, or automatic, frequency control, or compensation.
6 After [1973] fuel crisis.
7 Aeronautical Frequency Committee (office
Annapolis, MD).
8 Automatic flare control.
AFCAA 1 Air Force Cost Analysis Agency (Arlington,
Va, established 1 August 1992).
2 Air Force Computer Acquisition Center (Hanscom
AFB, part of AFCC).
AFCAC African Civil Aviation Commission (Int.,
established 1969).
Afcap Air Force contract augmentation program.
AFCAS, Afcas Automatic flight control augmentation
system.
AFCC 1 Air Force Communications Command (HQ
Scott AFB, formed from AFCS 15 November 1979,
became AFC 4 A 28 May 1993).
2 Office of the Chief of Staff (USAF).
AFCCCCA See AFC 4 A.
AFCE Automatic flight control equipment, linked
Norden bombsight to autopilot.
AFCEA Armed Forces Communications & Electronics
Association, [office, Fairfax, VA 22033–3899]; [European
office, Brussels B-1140] (US, Int.).
AFCEE Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence
(Brooks AFB, established 23 July 1991).
Afcent, AFCENT Allied Forces, Central Europe
(Brunssum, Netherlands).
AFCESA Air Force Civil Engineer Support Agency
(Tyndall AFB, established 1 August 1991).
AFC 4 A Air Force Command, Control,
Communications and Computer Agency (Scott AFB,
established 28 May 1993).
AFCI Arc-fault circuit interruption.
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