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If you are reading any Blackbird related literature or web sites, you may want to take a look at these acronyms and other definitions for reference. When preparing these, I made sure that every one of the following applies specifically to Blackbird programs.             PAUL R. KUCHER

 

AB - afterburner
ACC - Air Command Combat
AD - Aerodynamic Disturbance
ADF - Automatic Direction Finder
ADI - Altitude Direction Indicator
ADP - Advanced Development Projects
ADS - Accessory Drive System
AFB - Air Force Base
AFCS - Automatic Flight Control System
ALCM - Air Launched Cruise Missle
AIC - Air Inlet Computer
AIM - Air Intercept Missle
AMRAAM - Advanced Medium Range Air to Air Missle
AMS - Avionics Maintenance Squadron
ANGEL - Code-name For The U-2 Project
ANS - Astro-inertial Navigation System
AOA - Angle of Attack
APW - Automatic Pitch Warning
ARCHANGEL - Code-name For Early Blackbird Designs
ARCP - Air Refueling Control Point
ARCT - Air Refueling Control Time
AREA 51 - Groom Lake, NV
ASARS - Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar System
AWACS - Airborne Warning And Control System

BLACK SHIELD - Code-name For The A-12 Operations

CAPRE - Capability Reconnaissance
CG - Center of Gravity
CIA - Central Intelligence Agency
CINCLANT - Commander In Chief Atlantic
CINCSAC - Commander In Chief SAC
CIT - Compressor Inlet Temperature
COLD WALL - Name Of The Research Project At NASA Dryden
CPA - Closest Point of Approach
CR - Combat Ready
CRM - Cockpit Resource Management
CSD - Constant Speed Drive
CSIS - Center for Strategic and International Studies

DAFICS - Digital Automatic Flight and Inlet Control System
DCI - Director of Central Intelligence
DEF - Defensive Systems
DET - Detachment
DFRC - Dryden Flight Research Center
DIA - Director of Intelligence Agency
DME - Distance Measuring Equipment
DMZ - Demilitarized Zone
DPM - Drips Per Minute
DPR - Duct Pressure Ratio

EAR - End Air Refueling Point
ECM - Electronic Counter Measures
EEG - Electroencephalogram
EGT - Exhaust Gas Temperature
EIP - EMR Improvement Program
ELINT - Electronic Intelligence
EMR - Electro Magnetic Recorder
ENP - Engine Nozzle Position
EPT - Effective Performance Time

FCF - Functional Check Flight
FCO - Fire Control Officer
FCS - Fire Control System
FISH - Code-name For The Convair Parasite Aircraft
FRS - Flight Reference System
FYDP - Five Year Defense Plan

GCA - Ground Controlled Approach
GCI - Ground Controlled Intercept
GMT - Greenwich Mean Time
GUSTO - Code-name For Stealth Studies

HABU - Nickname For The Blackbird
HSI - Horizontal Situation Indicator

ICBM - Inter Continental Ballistic Missile
IGV - Inlet Guide Vane
ILS - Instrument Landing System
INS - Inertial Navigation System
IP - Instructor Pilot

JP - Jet Propellant
JRC - Joint Reconnaissance Center

KEAS - Knot Equivalent Air Speed
KIAS - Knot Indicated Air Speed
KINGFISH - Code-name For Convair Competitor To ARCHANGEL
KTAS - Knots True Air Speed

NASA - National Aeronautics & Space Administration
NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NOTAM - Notice To Airmen
NRO - National Reconnaissance Office
NSA - National Security Agency
NWS - Nose Wheel Steering

OBC - Optical Bar Camera
OL 8 - Operating Location 8 (Kadena)
OXCART - CIA Code-name For A-12

PSD - Physiological Support Division
PVD - Peripheral Vision Device

RAF - Royal Air Force
RAM - Radar Absorbing Material
RSO - Reconnaissance Systems Officer
RW - Reconnaissance Wing

SAC - Strategic Air Command
SAM - Surface To Air Missile
SAS - Stability Augmentation System
SENIOR BOWL - D-21/B-52 Program
SLR - Side Looking Radar
SRC - Strategic Reconnaissance Center
SRS - Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron
SRW - Strategic Reconnaissance Wing

TAC - Tactical Air Command
TACAN - Tactical Air Navigation
TAGBOARD - D-21/M-21 Program
TAS - True Air Speed
TEB - Triethylborane

UAV - Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

 

COURTESY OF PAUL R. KUCHER AT SR-71.ORG

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