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Old 27th Jul 2020, 07:16
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DaveReidUK
 
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Originally Posted by tdracer
There were several internal Boeing acronyms that may not have gone over well in general use. My favorite was "Airborne Integrated Data System" - AIDS (basically an aircraft level health monitoring system) - this in the late 1980s at the same times the Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome was a big concern.
I don't think AIDS was specifically a Boeing acronym. From the 1973 report on the previous year's crash of a BEA Trident:



Though I recall that the S in this context stood for Systems in the plural, rather than the singular. The individual in question became a pioneer of QARs.

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