The most common cause of compressor stalls in early versions of the Pratt & Whitney JT9D engines powering the 747-100/200 was the use of excessive reverse when the airplane had slowed too much for the degree of reverse used. This was exacerbated if it was a high-time engine. Typically a compressor stall in these engines back then was not written up.
COPYRIGHT 2004 The Gale Group Inc. Human intelligence, or HUMINT, is the gathering of information through human contact. It is, along with signals intelligence and imagery intelligence (SIGINT and IMINT respectively), one of the three traditional means of intelligence gathering.
Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Humbug. In English the word Humbug refers to a person or thing that tricks, deceives, talks, or behaves in a way that is deceptive, dishonest, false, or insincere, often a hoax or in jest. The term was first described in 1751 as student slang. It is now also often used as an exclamation to mean 'nonsense' or 'gibberish'. When referring to a person, a humbug means a fraud or impostor, implying an element of unjustified publicity and spectacle. In Britain, the term is also used for certain types of candy.