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ATC by iRiShREPUblicANarmY January 24, 2004

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.

World War Three 

For a completely inchorent definition see The Third World War
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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.
ELT by IrishRepublicanArmy January 18, 2004

supermegafast 

Pretty much when you're typing so fast that you make so many typographical errors that it is impossable for other people to understand what you are saying, your typing supermegafast
im typing soofats taht poelpep dontt undrtnat waht iim sayuing
An annual ham radio festival that includes a flea market, prizes, and seminars.
I went to the Vienna Wireless hamfest and picked up a nice HF/VHF transciever.
hamfest by IrishRepublicanArmy January 10, 2004

emergency 

1) A medical or behavioral condition of which the onset is sudden. It manifests itself by symptoms of such severity that a prudent lay person with an average knowledge of medicine and health could reasonably expect that the absence of immediate medical attention would result in: placing the health of the afflicted person in serious jeopardy; placing the health of an individual with a behavioral health condition or others in serious jeopardy; causing serious impairment of the individual's bodily functions; causing serious dysfunction of any bodily organ or part; causing serious disfigurement of the afflicted individual.

2) Any instance for which, in the determination of the President, federal assistance is needed to supplement state and local efforts and capabilities to save lives and protect property and public health and safety or to lessen or avert the threat of a disaster in any part of the United States. Emergency Program: The interim program of the National Flood Insurance Program as implemented on an emergency basis to provide a first layer of subsidized insurance before the detailed risk studies from which actuarial rates are computed have been completed.

3) A. Any occasion or instance--such as a hurricane, tornado, storm, flood, tidal wave, tsunami, earthquake, volcanic eruption, landslide, mudslide, snowstorm, fire, explosion, nuclear accident, or any other natural or man-made catastrophe--that warrants action to save lives and to protect property, public health, and safety (FEMA definition). B. A sudden occurrence demanding immediate action that may be due to epidemics, technological catastrophes, strife or to natural or man-made causes (World Health Organization definition).

4) any sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action
emergency by IrishRepublicanArmy January 10, 2004