225 definitions by IrishrepublicanArmy

ELT

Emergency Locator Transmitter. The ELT is a small radio transmitter that is installed in an aircraft and is designed to being transmitting upon impact (the crash) or it can be manually switched on. The ELT transmits a distincive signal on the international emergency frequencies of 121.5 MHz (VHF) and 243.0 MHz (UHF). This signal is picked up by ground stations, search and resuce aircraft (see Civil Air Patrol and Coast Guard, and satelites. Direction-finding equipment is then used to "home-in" on the signal and locate the downed aircraft.

Click on the recording above to listen to the sound of real ELT radio signal.

by IrishrepublicanArmy January 18, 2004

homer's car

Wow

i wanna drive it

watch the show

Homer: "I want my car repaired with quality GM parts"

Repair Guy: "But your car was built in Croatia, it's built from old Soviet tanks!"

by IrishrepublicanArmy December 12, 2003

hotmail

probably the only thing microsoft has gotten close to doing right.

Dispite the fact that my hotmail account works like 6 out of 10 times and all i get is porn spam, its still better then the ISP e-mail account we have with outlook and all that crap.

by IrishrepublicanArmy January 2, 2004

Aluminum Overcast

Pilot slang for the the B-17 flying fortress.

The pimpmobile of bombers.

We still gots a few Aluminum Overcast's flying, thanks to the Confederate Air Force

by IrishrepublicanArmy November 16, 2003

10-50

Police radio code for "car crash"

Car 459, this is Fairfax Post, 10-50 on I-66.

by IrishrepublicanArmy December 8, 2003

Type 4 Algorithm

Unclassified cryptographic algorithm that has been registered by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, but is not a Federal Information Processing Standard. NTIA

I don't know who used the TYPE FOUR, in fact, I don't even have a HF receiver.

by IrishrepublicanArmy January 24, 2004

testosterone

The male sex hormone, (C19H28O2), screted by the testes, that stimulates the devolpment of the male sex organs as well as the male sex drive.

I'm a 16-year old male, and the testosterone is pretty much flooding my brain.

by IrishrepublicanArmy January 2, 2004