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moment weight
moment weight Mass of gas-turbine or other blade
multiplied by distance of its c.g. from axis of rotation.
Moms, MOMS 1 Modular opto-electronic multispectral
scanner.
2 Mission Operations and Mission Services (NASA).
MON 1 Above mountains (ICAO).
2 Mixed oxides of nitrogen.
3 Motor octane number.
4 Month.
Mon Monitor (NASA).
Mona Advanced hyperbolic/computer/display airborne
navigator system (from modular navigation).
Monab Mobile naval airbase, on shore (USN).
Monel Range of corrosion-resistant Ni-Cu alloys.
monergol Hydrazine (F), often capital M.
Money flare Flame from petrol-soaked roll of asbestos
in steel basket (RAF, 1918 to WW2).
Monica Large series of active radars used by RAF
bombers 1943–46 for rear warning of interception.
monitor 1 To listen out on a particular frequency.
2 Pipe, usually on RIV or CFR vehicle, through which
water/foam or other retardant is delivered.
monitored system One continuously subjected to surveillance
and if necessary corrective action (eg isolating failed
channel) by separate avionic subsystem; feature of
autoland and other highly reliable systems.
monitor lane In a flight-control system, this duplicates
the functions of the command lane for both the command
and standby lanes.
monkey strip Strong fabric strip securing backseater
[esp. when standing to fire gun] to aircraft (UK, colloq.,
1916–40).
Monnex Dry-powder fire extinguishant.
monoball mount Primary structural joint, eg pylon to
wing, where loads are transmitted radially across
spherical surface.
monobloc 1 Shaped from single block, usually by
forging or casting.
2 Control surface in form of single aerofoil, not hinged
downstream of fixed fin or tailplane; also called slab type
or all-moving.
monochromatic EM radiation of single frequency, or
extremely narrow band.
monochromator Various devices for filtering out
unwanted wavelengths.
monocoque Three-dimensional form, such as fuselage,
having all strength in skin and immediate underlying
frames and stringers, with no interior structure or bracing.
Some purists argue there must be skin only.
monocrystal Turbine blade or other item formed from
metal grown as a single crystal, devoid of inter-grain
boundaries which would weaken it mechanically.
Adjective monocrystalline.
MONOCV, Mono-CV Future single-hull aircraft
carrier.
monofuel Fuel used alone without need for air or other
oxidant; eg HTP, MMH.
monohud Monocular HUD, for one eye only.
monolithic Usually means monocrystal, but see next.
monolithic rocket Having solid grain cast or extruded in
one piece.
monomer Substance consisting of single molecules, esp.
one which can be polymerised.
monomethyl hydrazine Rocket propellant; hydrazine in
MOQA
which one hydrogen atom is replaced by methyl group
N 2 H 3 .CH 3 .
monoplane Aerodyne having single wing, or single wing
each side of the axis of symmetry.
monopropellant Monofuel used in liquid rocket, eg
HTP.
monopulse Radar technique using four overlapping
pencil beams, two for azimuth, two for elevation, with
circuitry so arranged that, when target is at centre, output
voltage vanishes.
monorail Installed along ceiling of paratroop transport,
to which static lines are hooked.
monoslabs Standard heavy concrete castings set into
ground to form large grid, seeded with grass, in unpaved
regions of airfield subjected to severe jet erosion.
monospar Wing construction based on single spar,
strong in bending and torsion.
monostatic radar Radio whose transmitter and receiver
are co-located.
Monroe effect Formation of hot high-velocity jet by
explosion of shaped charge.
monsoon 1 Winds which reverse direction seasonally,
blowing seaward in winter.
2 In India, seasonal rains.
Monte Carlo method Computation based on computerized
random sampling.
Montgolfière Common term for early (pre-c1850) hotair
balloons.
Montreal Protocol Mandatory regulations for civil
aircraft, especially safety and environment (ICAO).
MON25 Mixed oxides of nitrogen comprising 25 per
cent nitric oxide (the remainder the tetroxide NTO.
mooring area Water reserved for mooring of marine
aircraft.
mooring band Reinforces upper part of envelope in line
with mooring lines.
mooring drag See trail rope.
mooring guy Rope or cable for securing aerostat.
mooring line See mooring guy.
mooring mast Rigid or cable-braced high mast to which
airship can be fastened and up/down which all supplies
and people can pass; also called mooring tower, but
purists reserve this term for a large and elaborate structure
with lift[s], for mooring giant rigids.
Moose Manned oribital-operations safety equipment.
MOOTW Military operations other than war.
MOP 1 Ministry of public works (Spanish-speaking
countries).
2 Magnetic orange pipe.
3 Modulation on pulse.
4 Minimum operational performance; see * RS.
5 Massive ordnance penetrator.
6 See next.
MOP costs Maintenance and overhaul personnel costs.
Mopitt Measures of pollution in the troposphere.
MOPRS Minimum operational performance requirements
standards.
Mops, MOPS 1 Minimum operational performance
standard[s].
2 Million operations per second.
Moptar Multiple-object phase tracking and ranging;
short-baseline CW phase-comparison.
MOQA Maintenance operations Quality Assurance.
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