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Spad

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Spad
    spăd (Mining) A nail one or two inches long, of iron, brass, tin, or tinner iron, with a hole through the flattened head, used to mark stations in underground surveying.
Usage in the news

Tim King and his video crew prepare Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome staffer Steve Lopresti for a scene with the aerodrome 's 1916 SPAD VII replica. generalaviationnews.com

Eduard's new 1/48 scale Spad XIII is the late version with four French marking schemes. finescale.com

Squire 's move follows just four months as head of press for the party, a role she was given after two years as a spad for Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith. prweek.com

The SPAD XIII was loved by its pilots as it was known for its sturdiness. modelairplanenews.com

The project to design this RC SPAD XIII started in late 2009. modelairplanenews.com

Usage in scientific papers

The acquisition time per data point was 60 s for the SSPDs and 40 s for the Si SPADs.
Operating quantum waveguide circuits with superconducting single-photon detectors

The outputs of the waveguide circuit are routed to a pair of single-photon detectors (SSPDs or Si SPADs) via single mode optical fiber.
Operating quantum waveguide circuits with superconducting single-photon detectors

We note that SSPDs are more robust to damage from bright light than Si single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs).
Operating quantum waveguide circuits with superconducting single-photon detectors

The photon pair collection rate was measured as ∼5000 s−1 when collected into polarization maintaining fibres (PMFs) and coupled directly to twin Si SPADs.
Operating quantum waveguide circuits with superconducting single-photon detectors

Here, owing to the low dark counts and excellent timing jitter, the SSPD outperforms the Si SPAD by >10.
Operating quantum waveguide circuits with superconducting single-photon detectors

Usage in literature

Spads and Bristol fighters, Sopwith scouts and F.E. "A History of Aeronautics" by E. Charles Vivian

Virgil and Theodolinda were returning from their honeymoon, which they had spent touring in Quimbleton's Spad plane. "In the Sweet Dry and Dry" by Christopher Morley

Tom was assigned to a speedy Spad machine, one of great power and lightness into which he climbed. "Air Service Boys in the Big Battle" by Charles Amory Beach

He tried spads, but got wind up. "Mr. Punch's History of the Great War" by Punch

The Spad pilot makes use of the sun, of fog, of clouds. "Georges Guynemer" by Henry Bordeaux

Our Spad biplanes were drawn up in two long rows, outside the hangars. "High Adventure" by James Norman Hall

Part were the speedy little "Spads" which were used as scout planes. "The Fight for the Argonne" by William Benjamin West

The Major tells me that you are to get several new Spads in the next two or three days. "Aces Up" by Covington Clarke

His landing-gear swished against stubble and he fought with all his strength of body and of will to keep the Spad's tail down. "Triplanetary" by Edward Elmer Smith

An American flies over to the aerodrome and begins to carry out the wildest acrobatics with his fast "Spad" machine. "'Green Balls'" by Paul Bewsher