zero-zero
English
Adjective
zero-zero (not comparable)
- Pertaining to the ejection of the occupant of an aircraft from a grounded stationary position (i.e. zero altitude and zero airspeed).
- 1965, Aircraft engineering
- Test vehicles used during this extensive programme were a launching stand for the zero-zero ejections...
- 1988, René J. Francillon, McDonnell Douglas aircraft since 1920
- Both cockpits were enclosed under a large canopy and both crew sat on zero-zero ejector seats.
- 2002, Walter J. Boyne, Air warfare: an international encyclopedia: Volume 1 (page 190)
- To lessen these forces, as well as achieve zero-zero seat capability—the ability to eject while sitting motionless on the ground—rocket sustainers were added.
- 1965, Aircraft engineering
- (military) Involving neither of two powers increasing their stockpile of nuclear weapons.
- a zero-zero treaty