In air defence,the determination that an aircraft appearing on a radarscope,on a plotting board,or visually is the same as that on which information is being received from another source.

a kind of control stand or box in an aircraft featuring a slotted,rounded plate from which various controls project,such as the throttle lever,mixture-control lever,propeller-pitch lever,etc

A cathode ray scope on which signals appear as spots,with bearing angle as the horizontal coordinate and elevation angle as the vertical coordinate.

Part of the flight deck arranged for the take-off and landing of aircraft at an angle to the fore-and-aft axis of an aircraft carrier.