Glossary

ASCII	American Standard Code for Information Interchange, basically 7 bit text data.
ASRI	Australian Space Research Institute, check out the site ASRI
BAUD	The transmission rate of a serial communications channel in bits per second, 9600 Baud is roughly equivalent to 950 ASCII characters per second.
CAD	Computer Aided Design. e.g. Drafting package to produce layout drawings.
CAM	Computer Aided Manufacture. e.g. Programs to run machinery that does a lot of the work for you.
CIM	Computer Integrated Manufacture, Integration of CAD and CAM.
C/L	Control Line, A method of remotely controlling a vehicle such as a model airplane through the wire tether.
CRM	Customer Relations Management, clients are valued, remembered and attended to promptly.
DARPA	US Department of Defense, Advanced Research Project Agency, a part of the US Federal Government.
EPM	Environmental Protection Management, leave the World in a better condition then you found it and do not pollute!
ERM	Enterprise Resource Management is the whole of business electronic management method.
FDP	Flight Dynamic Pressure, the speed in flight where the dynamic air pressure forced onto a vehicle could cause a structural failure of that vehicle. FDP diminishes with decreasing air density due to an increase in altitude or a decrease in engine thrust.
GlowPlug	Or Glo-Plug, a coil of platinoid wire used to provide an ignition source to the cylinder/s of an internal combustion engine, used in place of a spark plug.
GNU	Recursive acronym of 'GNU is not Unix', provides some of the Open Source code for the Linux Operation system such as the GCC 'C' compiler.
GPL	General Public License, protects authors from legal prosecution, loss of intellectual property rights and outlines to users their freedom to use, modify, copy and distribute. You may obtain a copy from the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA.
HRM	Human Resource Management, know and value your staff and provide timely training, support, incentive, safety and welfare.
PDCA	Quality Assurance cycle! Plan the product, Do the manufacture, Check that the result is good and meets all standards set especially including customer satisfaction, Act on any need to upgrade manufacture or design and then go back to the start and do it again and again......
LINUX	An Open Source operating system based on the UNIX kernel and maintained by Linus Torvalds, replacement for the Windows operating system.
NACA	Forerunner of NASA.
NASA	National Aeronautical Space Administration, a national body of the Federal Government of the U.S.A.
OpenSource	Non propriety software that is provided with the source code and a license such as the GPL that allows the freedom to use and alter the code and re-compile the program to suit one's own needs, may also be free of any cost other than distribution charges.
RC	Radio or Remote Controlled vehicle such as an airplane, boat or car.
RPV	Remotely Piloted Vehicle such as a Radio Controlled Airplane.
side4linux	Simple Integrated Development Environment for Linux.
SOP	Standard Operating Procedure, providing written information to ensure that product manufacturing repeatability is maintained. This ensures that each part is correctly made out of the correct materials and is identical from batch to batch regardless of who the operator is or when it is made.
SSM	Staff Succession Management, the training of Staff to replace retiring Staff Members on a timely basis so as to ensure the continued supply and quality of the Company's Products.
Tether	A restraining device such as a wire used to restrain a moving vehicle generally into a circular path e.g. tether model cars or C/L model aircraft.
UAV	Unmanned Aerial Vehicle could be a RPV or may be controlled by artificial intelligence either from the ground or onboard or both.
UNIX	UNiversal system for Information eXchange, operating system funded originally by DARPA on which the Internet runs.

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