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FAETUPAC
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Proper noun
en proper noun
en US military en Fleet Airborne Electronics Training Unit (Pacific) Squadron.
en 1962 unknown author Flight International IPC Transport Press Limited 82 523 The US Navy loves acronyms, and sometimes creates lip-curlers like FAETUPAC – Fleet Airborne Electronics Training Unit Pacific, our host for the day.
2002, Edwin Leigh Armistead, AWACS and Hawkeyes: The Complete History of Airborne Early Warning Aircraft, MBI Publishing Company, 0-7603-1140-4, chapter 1 “The Development of Airborne Early Warning (AEW) Aircraft”, page 13:
As the testing continued throughout 1947 and 1948, the operational use of TBM-3Ws was accomplished through the Fleet Aviation Electronic Training Units (Atlantic-FAETULANT and Pacific-FAETUPAC).