SPAD

SPAD may refer to:

In aircraft manufacture

  • Société Pour L'Aviation et ses Dérivés, also Société Provisoire des Aéroplanes Deperdussin and Blériot-SPAD, French aircraft manufacturer (1912–1921)
  • SPAD VII, SPAD S.XII and SPAD S.XIII, French fighter planes of World War I produced by Société Pour L'Aviation et ses Dérivés
  • A-1 Skyraider, nicknamed Spad, an attack aircraft (1950s and 1960s)
  • Simple Plastic Airplane Design, a type of radio-controlled model airplane

In science

Other uses

  • Special adviser (UK), informal shorthand for a post in the United Kingdom Government
  • Self-propelled air defence, a self-propelled anti-aircraft weapon
  • Signal passed at danger, when a train passes a stop signal without authority to do so
  • Suruhanjaya Pengangkutan Awam Darat, the Land Public Transport Commission of Malaysia
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gollark: Perhaps a giant claimwall around Switchcity?
gollark: Idea: place claims in places which people may one day use then sell them at exorbiant prices if they try to.
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gollark: No, it doesn't. I thought that having it send to ingame accounts on the same switchcraft.kst thing would, then I realized that it just needed to switch the numbers around internally without going through the krist node.

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