Posted on 05/18/2011 6:46:23 PM PDT by TankerKC
AC is well recognized as ‘aircraft commander’ in the USAF.
I still have mine at home, but as the years have gone by, I've forgotten what we used them for...LOL
http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/AC
Acronym Definition
AC Area Code
AC Alternating Current (electricity; physics)
AC Adult Contemporary (radio format)
AC Author’s Correction
AC Ante Cibum (Latin: Before Meals)
AC Air Conditioning/Conditioner
AC Account
AC Accept (ITU-T)
AC Aircraft
AC Antigua
AC Acute
AC Access Control
AC Acceleration (Front Page Sports Football ‘95 et al)
AC Acre (state of Brazil)
AC Annual Conference (Church of the Brethren)
AC Advisory Committee
AC Aachen (Germany)
AC Accountancy
AC Alice Cooper (musician)
AC AutoCAD
AC Atlantic City
AC Apple Computer
AC American College
AC Audio Codec
AC Air Canada (airline code)
AC Analytical Chemistry
AC Autonomic Computing
AC Ascension Island (top level domain)
AC Air Compressor
AC Athletic Club
AC Alan Cox (Linux kernel hacker)
AC All Clear
AC Academic Institution (DNS zone for UK academic institutions; as in .ac.uk)
AC Air-Cooled
AC Anderson Cooper (news correspondent)
AC Armored Core (video game)
AC Apple Cider
AC Air Cargo
AC Ace Combat (video games 1-5)
AC Animal Control
AC Animal Crossing (video game)
AC Asheron’s Call (game)
AC Advent Children (movie sequel to Final Fantasy VII game)
AC Assassin’s Creed (videogame)
AC Army Corps
AC Access Card
AC Alameda County
AC Arm Chair
AC Australian Capital Territory
AC Anonymous Coward (Slashdot)
AC Adapter Card (FS-1037c)
AC Actual Cost
AC Amherst College
AC Advisory Circular (aviation)
AC Age Concern (UK)
AC Atmospheric Chemistry
AC Automobile Club
AC Aircraft Carrier
AC Air Combat (game)
AC Atomic Clock
AC Adenylate Cyclase
AC Advanced Computing
AC Autocheck
AC Activated Charcoal
AC Assistant Coach
AC After Class
AC Authentication Code (telecommunications)
AC Acceptance Criteria
AC Auto Clicker (gaming)
AC Air Traffic Controller (USN Rating)
AC Asphalt Concrete
AC Allis Chalmers (manufacturer of agriculture and industrial equipment)
AC Adjudicator
AC Active Component
AC African Caribbean
AC Area of Concern (school grading system)
AC Affinity Chromatography
AC Account Control
AC Actinium
AC Action Code
AC Air Carrier
AC Alpha Centauri (game)
AC Account Code (Sprint BCS-29)
AC Aberdeen College
AC Anti Christ
AC Armor Class
AC Application Context
AC Applied Cryptography (book)
AC Aquatic Center
AC Administrative Control
AC Acromioclavicular (shoulder joint)
AC Akademikernes Centralorganisation
AC Axiom of Choice (math)
AC Analysis Console
AC Advocacy Center
AC Arithmetic Coding
AC Adjacent Channel
AC Hydrogen Cyanide
AC Aleister Crowley (novelist)
Ac Acetyl Group (chemistry)
AC Anglican Communion
AC Assistant Commissioner
AC Anterior Chamber
AC Account Current
AC Andersen Consulting
AC Air Corps
AC Aero Club
AC Altocumulus (cloud formation)
AC Agir Ensemble Contre le Chômage (Paris, France)
AC Alcohol Concentration
AC After Christ
AC Auxiliary Contact
AC Access Channel
AC Analog Computer
AC Attribute Certificate
AC Armored Cable (electricity)
AC Advanced CMos
AC Air Curtain
AC Asbestos Cement
AC Ascension Islands (ISO country code)
AC Antecubital
AC Amount Claimed
AC Associazione Calcio (Italian: soccer club)
AC Area Coordinator
AC Asynchronous Communications
AC Acquisition Center
AC Accounting Clerk
AC Access Category
AC Automatic Computer
AC Actual Count
AC Added Copy (libraries)
AC Albion College (Albion, MI)
AC Asphalt Cement
AC Anthrocon (anthropomorphics convention)
AC Association Class
AC Arc Consistency (constraint programming AI research)
AC Augustana College (ELCA college, Sioux Falls, SD)
AC Association for Coaching (London, UK)
AC Absorption Chiller
AC Companion of the Order of Australia
AC Attachment Circuit
AC Appeal Cases
AC Automation Company
AC Attenuation Correction
AC Anthony Carter (ex-NFL player)
AC Agent Code
AC Antioch College (Yellow Springs, OH)
AC Associate Commissioner
AC Anderson College (South Carolina)
AC Acción Ciudadana (Spanish: citizen action; Guatemala)
AC Assembly Complete
AC Anno Christi (Latin: In the Year of Christ; epigraphy)
AC Air Controller
AC Access Customer
AC Aircraft Commander
AC Arc Cutting
AC Aylesbury College (Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, UK)
AC Air Commodore
AC Arret Cardiaque
AC Acoustic Coupler
AC Angelina College
AC Asphalt Content
AC Alignment Check
AC Auxiliary Circuit
AC Air Change
AC Assistant Camera (film production)
AC Allied Command
AC Assist Control (ventilation)
AC Aelod Cynulliad (Welsh: Member of the National Assembly for Wales)
AC Appeals Council (Social Security)
AC Action for Change (Mauretania)
AC Allergic Conjunctivitis
AC Alicyclic
AC Academic Complex
AC Association Control
AC Abdominal Circumference (measure of fetal growth in pregnancy)
AC Adoptionscentrum (Sweden)
AC Atlas Centaur (US intermediate class expendable launch vehicle)
AC Autocannon
AC Air Conduction
AC Auto Carrier (chassis supplier of original Cobra roadster)
AC Access Concentrators
AC Angel Crew (band)
AC Asbury College (Kentucky, USA)
AC Ante Christum (Latin: Before Christ)
AC Advance Construction
AC Astrographic Catalogue
AC Appellation Contrôlée (beverages)
AC Authentication Center
AC Air Cadets
AC Alternative Certification (teaching)
AC Area Commander
AC Advent Christian
AC Automatic Callback (Bellcore)
AC After Coupon
AC Apelação Cível (Civil Appeal; Brazil)
AC Assistant Chef
AC Acid Ceramidase
AC Anonymous Caller
AC Aircraftman
AC Adriamycin and Cytoxan (chemotherapy protocol)
AC After Colony (Gundam Wing animated series)
AC Academia Cotopaxi (Quito, Ecuador)
AC After Colony
AC Admirals Club
AC Area Commissioner (UK scouting)
AC Associativity and Commutativity (math)
AC Aviation Cadet
AC Avanti Cristo (Italian: Before Christ)
AC Airspace Control
AC Anarchist’s Cookbook
AC Administrative Complex
AC Army Component
AC Absolute Ceiling
AC Adams Central (High School; Hastings, NE)
AC Aromatherapy Council
AC Active Counter
AC American Choppers (TV series)
AC Ambient Computing (Workshop)
AC Antenna Controller
AC Actual Commitment
AC Addictions Counselor (New Life Ministries)
AC Ambassador College
AC Acquisition Category
AC Armoured Core (game)
AC Austin Croshere (NBA player)
AC Adjustment Center (prisons)
AC Bureau of Arms Control
AC Attack Center
AC Auto-Cannon (gaming, Mechwarrior)
AC Answer Complete
AC Anthony Consulting (Yorktown, VA)
AC Associate Contractor
AC Apollo’s Chariot (Busch Gardens roller coaster)
AC Advanced Challenge (activity, Camp Yawgoog, BSA)
AC Aiming Circle (field artillery aiming instrument)
AC Aviation Challenge
AC Ashbury College (Canada)
AC Application Control Architecture
AC Agent Cost (Sprint)
AC Automatic Correlation
AC Atmospheric Corrector
AC Affinitätschromatographie (German)
AC Affirmative Constructive (debate)
AC Accountability Measurement
AC Awaiting Connection
AC Aryan Circle (gang)
AC Alternate Call (listing)
AC Ante Cenam (Latin: Before a Meal)
AC Auscultacion Cardiaca (Spanish: Cardiac Auscultation)
AC Associazione Calcistica (Italian: Soccer Association)
AC Analyst Console
AC Authorized Consultants
AC Acknowledged Connectionless
AC Altai Consulting
AC Autistics and Cousins
AC Ambush At Corellia (Star Wars novel)
AC Air Coordinator
AC Aberración Cromosómica (Spanish)
AC Air Controlman
AC Apostolic Carmel (Catholic congregation)
AC Airframe Change
AC After Crowning (Dungeons & Dragons)
AC Agro Centro (Guatemala)
AC Assigned Capital
AC Anthony Calhoun (sports anchorman)
AC Area Correlator
AC Assessment Counselor (New Life Ministries)
AC Allied Chat (gaming)
AC Ash Catchem (Pokémon protagonist)
AC Abstinence Committed
AC Anterior Clavicular (joint)
AC Armament Computer
AC Ancho Canyon
AC Alimbic Cluster (Metroid Prime Hunters video game)
AC Action Chit
AC Assumption Iloilo
aC Ante de Cristo (Spanish: Before Christ)
AC ARTS Controller
AC Attack Console
AC Authorised Certified (seed)
AC Attack Cargo Plane (military aircraft designation, as in AC-130)
AC Antennal Commissure
AC Active Commanding
AC Atheist Crew
AC Autocars and Accessories Ltd.
AC Auxilio Ciudadano (Spanish, special police & military task force)
AC After Catch Yards (yards gained after catching a pass, football)
AC DCS/Comptroller
AC Allen Cowlings (OJ Simpson trial)
AC AWP Control
AC Aperture Card Sil Negative
AC Aerocasillas SA
AC Aktivacní Centrum (Czech: Activation Center)
Whatever.
Context.
Context is everything.
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Very marshy where he went down, probably the soft much helped absorb the impact, allowing the crew to get out.
Back when I was working in the Aero Barrio, I had a friend (happened to be a J-school grad) who VERY seriously asked how we designed the storage for “those plates that the flames from the engines push against”.
He was buying, so I didn’t even laugh at him.
IIRC, I told him that design wasn’t on my Department’s job list. Don’t recall what lie I told to cover that coughing fit, though.
Would you believe that I can still go into grid without a checklist?
That's the theory. But they have rejected that contingency and will assume the GPS and INS will see them through.
I remember the first time the Raptors flew to Okinawa — they had to turn around and return to Hickam — as they crossed the International Date Line, their computers malfunctioned. Simple programming omission.
I wish I really had one. One of the last of the old celestial navigators — I felt like a dinosaur. But we won the Cold War....
.... only to hand the US over to a socialist dream.
Are you sure about that? (I do remember vaguely seeing something about former Boeing 720's in military service.) With a different airframe, the Boeing 720 should have had a separate military designation to distinguish it from military C-135's and VC-135's and their recon/EW kin.
Apparently I’m not sure about that. The 707 lineage is a little more complicated than I thought. Ignore anything I said on the subject!
“Isn’t a KC-135 technically a 717?
The KC-135 is based on the 707 airframe.
As I recall, the 717 designation was applied to the DC-9 when Boeing acquired Douglas. “
Almost true.
In the beginning Boeing crafted the 367-80 (Dash 80) prototype. The Dash-80 developed into the KC-135 and into the 707 Model. The 717 designation was used initialy for the KC-135, later 717 was also used for the 707-020 which was also called 720. Many decades later the MD95 (a 4th generation DC-9) was sold by Boeing as the 717.
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