I once had to defend myself against an air marshal who was offended by such rubbish (as he saw it) as ‘hardware’ and ‘software’. Incidentally, while ‘gasoline’ is clearly now a preferred spelling, I have had to write quite an essay on ‘kerosene/ kerosine’. To this end I have included brief entries on such words as ‘generic’, ‘oxygen’ and ‘gasoline’, which are not aerospace terms. He cited as an example ‘barrier pattern’, a term which BAe Manchester had asked me to define! My sole objective is to create a useful product. In a previous edition I was criticised by a reviewer for using words ‘which have no relevance to aerospace’. I read their meanings through several times and decided not to include any in these pages. They explained ‘These actions are defined in ways that may seem arcane to the nonspecialist, but each term has a specific meaning.’ The terms are: Activate, Active list, Assign, Attach, Consolidate, Constitute, Designate, Disband, Disestablish, Establish, Establishment, Inactivate, Inactive list, Organize, Provisional organizations, Redesignate, Re-establish, Relieve from active duty, and Unit. I recently studied a list of terms used by the US Air Force to describe the status of each of its component organizations.

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