holding pattern

The term applied to the dogfight in progress over any radio facility serving a terminal airport.

ATC: Cessna 78 Romeo, enter holding pattern

Me: Oh crap

by IrishRepublicanArmy December 22, 2003

Air Traffic Control

A game played by airline pilots and air traffic controllers. The game has no rules, and neither side knows how it is played, but the goal is to prevent flights from arriving in time for passengers to make connecting flights.

Flying used to be fun, but its not with this air traffic control shit.

by IrishRepublicanArmy January 24, 2004

Dependency Theory

A theory that argues that, due to the exploitative nature of the relationship between advanced capitalist (western) societies and the Third World, the development of the former resulted in the underdevelopment of the latter. Because of its reliance on external sources of demand and investment opportunities, Western capitalism penetrated virtually all parts of the Third World and eventually laid down the foundations of dominance-dependence relationship structures between North and South which tended to engender and perpetuate underdevelopment in the Third World. According to this theory, exchanges between the North and the South, such as trade, foreign investment, and aid, are asymmetric and tend to stifle the development of the latter and to reinforce their dependence. The theory also contends that local elites with vested interest in the structure of dominance and in monopolizing (monopoly) domestic power cooperate with international capitalist elites to perpetuate the international capitalist system.

See also HF allocation, the example.

by IrishRepublicanArmy March 04, 2004

Tony's New York Pizza

The place to be in northern virginia.

Pretty much the classic italian pizza place. Complete with nice italian dudes making some nice pizza and great calzones.

and yes, they are really italian, enuf said..

I went to Tony's New York Pizza and ate 7 slices of pizza, it was yummy.

by IrishRepublicanArmy November 15, 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

FRS jammer

usally this:

a device (usally a heavly modified FRS base station radio) that has been set up to jam frequencies in the FRS radio band, used to annoy little kids and to hold a channel for yourself. Some FRS jammers even add music to thier transmissions, which makes it all the more interesting.

"I can't hear anything on channel, that radio op's got his FRS jammer on again"

by IrishRepublicanArmy October 15, 2003

U-boat

literally "unterseeboot" or German for "Under water boat"

OK, It's a German submarine.

by IrishRepublicanArmy December 21, 2003