aircraft | | |
n. (artifact) | 1. aircraft | a vehicle that can fly. |
| ~ fly-by, flypast, flyover | a flight at a low altitude (usually of military aircraft) over spectators on the ground. |
| ~ crash landing | an emergency landing under circumstances where a normal landing is impossible (usually damaging the aircraft). |
| ~ crop-dusting, spraying | the dispersion of fungicides or insecticides or fertilizer on growing crops (often from a low-flying aircraft). |
| ~ stabilisation, stabilization | the act of making something (as a vessel or aircraft) less likely to overturn. |
| ~ aircraft engine | the engine that powers and aircraft. |
| ~ bay | a compartment in an aircraft used for some specific purpose.; "he opened the bomb bay" |
| ~ bogy, bogie, bogey | an unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft. |
| ~ cabin | the enclosed compartment of an aircraft or spacecraft where passengers are carried. |
| ~ cockpit | compartment where the pilot sits while flying the aircraft. |
| ~ craft | a vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space. |
| ~ cruise missile | an unmanned aircraft that is a self-contained bomb. |
| ~ fuel system | equipment in a motor vehicle or aircraft that delivers fuel to the engine. |
| ~ heavier-than-air craft | a non-buoyant aircraft that requires a source of power to hold it aloft and to propel it. |
| ~ lighter-than-air craft | aircraft supported by its own buoyancy. |
| ~ nose | a front that resembles a human nose (especially the front of an aircraft).; "the nose of the rocket heated up on reentry" |
| ~ skeletal frame, underframe, skeleton, frame | the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape.; "the building has a steel skeleton" |
| ~ skin | an outer surface (usually thin).; "the skin of an airplane" |
| ~ stealth aircraft | an aircraft designed in accordance with technology that makes detection by radar difficult. |
| ~ destabilization | an event that causes a loss of equilibrium (as of a ship or aircraft). |
| ~ driftage | the deviation (by a vessel or aircraft) from its intended course due to drifting. |
| ~ fleet | group of aircraft operating together under the same ownership. |
| ~ airplane pilot, pilot | someone who is licensed to operate an aircraft in flight. |
| ~ brownout, dimout, blackout | darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft). |
| ~ aviate, pilot, fly | operate an airplane.; "The pilot flew to Cuba" |
| ~ touch down | come or bring (a plane) to a landing.; "the plane touched down at noon" |
| ~ heavier-than-air | relating to an aircraft heavier than the air it displaces. |
| ~ lighter-than-air | relating to a balloon or other aircraft that flies because it weighs less than the air it displaces. |
| ~ sweptback | (especially of aircraft wings) angled rearward from the point of attachment.; "aircraft with sweptback wings" |
| ~ sweptwing | (of an aircraft) having sweptback wings.; "a sweptwing aircraft" |
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