victorhadin's definitions

Cyrillic

An alphabetical system, highly phonetic in nature, used in many Eastern European and traditionally orthodox nations.

-Confused the living crap out of me when I visited Bulgaria.

Bulgarian use the cyrillic alphabet.

by victorhadin December 7, 2003

engineer

1) More useful to society than an insurance salesman.
2) More useful to the arms industry than a big bucket of grenades.
3) More likely to use statistics than 345% of the population.
4) Enjoys overcomplicating things.

The aerospace engineer is the guy in the plane who is whimpering quietly and looking worried.

by victorhadin March 25, 2003

Trailing vortex

The trailing vortex, also known, smewhat erroneously, as the 'wingtip vortex', is created due to the pressure differentials between the upper and lower sides of an aircraft wing. The resultant vorticity 'coils up' to form distinct trailin vortices, trailing from the wingtips. The assumption of perfect line-vortex systems from the wingtips is inherent in the horseshoe vortex model.

The trailing vortex was visible in the air.

by victorhadin December 7, 2003

color

Slang.

Colonial slang of 'colour'.

"Behold, for I cannot spell color correctly!"

by victorhadin March 25, 2003

wanker

Slang.

1) One who masturbates to excess.
2) One who uses the word 'skillz' and takes it seriously.

"Stop saying skillz, you bloody wanker! Speak properly!"

by victorhadin March 25, 2003

Supermanouevreability

The ability of an aircraft or aerial vehicle to maintain accurate pitch control in the post-stall regime of high-alpha flight.

Evident in:

-Eurofighter Typhoon.
-Su37.
-F22.
-Most Hollywood fighters. Hollywood clearly knows things the aerospace industry doesn't.

Ha. Let's see how many people bother looking *this* up. ;)

by victorhadin December 7, 2003

Stall

A loss of lift over a lifting body, usually caused by separation of the flow from the upper surface of the lifting body/ aerofoil.

Common types of stall by flow separation include leading edge, trailing edge and thin aerofoil stalling.

The plan stalled, and fell wildly out of control.

by victorhadin December 7, 2003