drone

en-verb

drone (third-person singular simple present drones, present participle droning, simple past and past participle droned)

drones (present singular third-person)
droning (participle present)
droned (participle past)
droned (past)

"I have a lot of advice for him," Ayers said in the interview, aired Tuesday night. "I want him to stop droning people. I want him to close Guantanamo. I want universal healthcare. Don't you think we deserve universal healthcare? Seriously."

2014, Colin Campbell, “Bill Ayers To Obama: 'Stop Droning People'”, in Business Insider:

“He won’t be waging wars all the world ― he’ll be waging ‘warsuits,’” Noah said. “Droning people with subpoenas all over the globe.”

2016, David Moye, “Trevor Noah: If Trump Is Elected, He’ll Wage ‘Warsuits’”, in Huffington Post:

“Are we still droning people? Yeah,” he said. “Are we still running covert operations that weren’t authorized by Congress? Yeah. Is the government still spying on Americans without warrants? Without due process. Yeah. When some libertarians talk about the great accomplishments we’re seeing on foreign policy, I don’t know what they’re talking about. Reaching out to these guys is one thing, but you have to move down the court. [Trump] actually made it harder for us to have a good relationship with Russia.”

2018, David Weigel, “The new ‘Dr. No’: Rep. Justin Amash, marooned in Congress”, in Washington Post:

(transitive, colloquial) To kill with a missile fired by unmanned aircraft.


drone

dronen (definite singular)
droner (indefinite plural)
dronene (definite plural)

From Middle Low German drone (sense 1), and English drone (sense 2).

a drone (radio-controlled pilotless aircraft)


drone

dronen (definite singular)
dronar (indefinite plural)
dronane (definite plural)


drone

head

drone (definite accusative droneu, plural dronelar)

droneu (accusative definite)
dronelar (plural)
drone (nominative singular)
dronelar (nominative plural)
droneu (accusative definite singular)
droneları (accusative definite plural)
dronea (dative singular)
dronelara (dative plural)
droneda (locative singular)
dronelarda (locative plural)
dronedan (ablative singular)
dronelardan (ablative plural)
droneun (genitive singular)
droneların (genitive plural)

(aviation) An unmanned aerial vehicle; drone.


plane

The plane is travelling impossibly slowly – 30km an hour – when it gently noses up and leaves the ground. With air beneath them, the rangy wings seem to gain strength; the fuselage that on the ground seemed flimsy becomes elegant, like a crane vaunting in flight. It seems not to fly, though, so much as float.

2013 September 6, Tom Cheshire, “Solar-powered travel”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 13, page 34:

plane

originally in Wisconsin Walloon community


spool

From Middle English spole (possibly via Old Northern French spole, espole), from Middle Dutch spoele, from Old Dutch *spōla, *spuola, from Proto-Germanic *spōlǭ (“spool”), from Proto-Indo-European *spel- (“to cleave, split”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Spoule (“spool”), Dutch spoel (“spool”), German Spule (“spool”), Swedish spole (“spool”), Icelandic spóla (“spool; reel”). The aviation usage is based on the visual similarity of one of the spools of a turbine engine to a spool used for thread (especially in cross-section).

der

The high-pressure spool rotates faster than the intermediate- and low-pressure spools, as the high-pressure turbine is driven by superheated combustion gases straight out of the burners, while the high-pressure compressor has to spin very fast to compress air that has already been compressed and heated by the low- and intermediate-pressure compressors.

(aviation) One of the rotating assemblies of a gas turbine engine, composed of one or more turbine stages, a shaft, and one or more compressor or fan stages.


ADO

(international standards, aviation) IATA airport code for Andamooka Airport, which serves Andamooka, South Australia, Australia.


ADC

(international standards, aviation) IATA airport code for Andakombe Airport, which serves Andakombe, Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea.


ADN

(international standards, aviation) IATA airport code for Andes Airport, which serves Andes, Antioquia, Colombia.


yaw

en-verb

yaw (third-person singular simple present yaws, present participle yawing, simple past and past participle yawed)

yaws (present singular third-person)
yawing (participle present)
yawed (participle past)
yawed (past)

Unknown, first attested in the mid-16th century. Perhaps related to yar (“quick, agile”), or alternatively from Old Norse jaga (“to chase, drive, move back and forth”), from Middle Low German jagen (“to hunt, chase, pursue”), from Old Saxon *jagōn, from Proto-West Germanic *jagōn, from Proto-Germanic *jakkōną (“to hunt”).

der

you're (some non-rhotic accents, especially with the pour–poor merger)

(intransitive, aviation) To turn about the vertical axis while maintaining course.


grease

en-verb

grease (third-person singular simple present greases, present participle greasing, simple past and past participle greased)

greases (present singular third-person)
greasing (participle present)
greased (participle past)
greased (past)

From Middle English grece, from Anglo-Norman grece, from Vulgar Latin *grassia, noun derived from Latin crassus (“fat, thick”).

To my amazement, I greased the landing despite the tricky crosswinds.

(transitive, slang, aviation) To perform a landing extraordinarily smoothly.

laskeutua todella pehmeästi

to perform a landing extraordinarily smoothly


kiss

From Middle English kis, kys, kus, forms of cos influenced by kissen, from Old English coss, from Proto-West Germanic *koss, from Proto-Germanic *kussaz.

(aviation) A low-speed mid-air collision between the envelopes of two hot air balloons, generally causing no damage or injury.


skin

en-noun

skin (countable and uncountable, plural skins)

From Middle English skyn, skinn, from Old English scinn, from Old Norse skinn (“animal hide”), from Proto-Germanic *skinþą, from Proto-Indo-European *sken- (“to split off”), nasal variant of *skeh₁i-d- (“to cut”). Partially displaced native Old English hȳd (“skin, hide”), from which derives hide. Unrelated to shin.
Cognate with Dutch schinde (“bark”), dialectal German Schinde (“fruit peel”); also Breton skant (“scales”), Old Irish ceinn, Irish scainim (“I tear, burst”), Latin scindere (“to split, divide”), Sanskrit छिनत्ति (chinátti, “he splits”).

hinasuna

outer protective layer of the body of a person or animal

don't sell the skin till you have caught the bear

(aviation) The outer surface covering much of the wings and fuselage of an aircraft.


honeycomb

en-noun

honeycomb (countable and uncountable, plural honeycombs)

Alhambra
Oxford English Dictionary
United States Army

The noun is derived from Middle English hony comb, from Old English huniġcamb, from huniġ (“honey”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kn̥h₂ónks (“honey”)) + camb (“comb”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵómbʰos (“peg; tooth; row of teeth”)). The English word is analysable as honey + comb. The Oxford English Dictionary posits that the arrangement of several plates of wax “hanging parallel to each other from the roof of the hive suggests a comb with its teeth”.
The verb is derived from the noun.

kennosto

something resembling honeycomb in having numerous cells or small holes

hunaja

something resembling honeycomb in sweetness; something desirable or pleasant

(countable, by extension) Something resembling honeycomb (sense 1) in having numerous cells or small holes.

(chiefly aviation) Material manufactured with small hollow cells, sometimes sandwiched between two flat sheets, which is used to make light, stiff structural components.

kennosto

material manufactured with small hollow cells


INS

inertial navigation system
w:inertial navigation system

(aviation) Initialism of inertial navigation system.


parrot

First attested in 1525. From Middle French perrot, either a diminutive of Pierre or a shortened form of perroquet (whence also parakeet). Compare French pierrot and Occitan parrat. A number of origins have been suggested for perroquet, such as Spanish periquito and Italian parrocchetto. The relationship between these various words is disputed. Replaced earlier popinjay.


lanterna

lanterna (indefinite nominative singular)
lanternas (genitive indefinite singular)
lanternan (definite nominative singular)
lanternans (definite genitive singular)
lanternor (indefinite nominative plural)
lanternors (genitive indefinite plural)
lanternorna (definite nominative plural)
lanternornas (definite genitive plural)


aerial

en-adj

aerial (comparative more aerial, superlative most aerial)

more aerial (comparative)
most aerial (superlative)

General American, Mary–marry–merry merger

From Latin āerius + -al, from Ancient Greek ἀέριος (aérios), from ἀήρ (aḗr, “air”).

In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.

2013 June 7, Ed Pilkington, “‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 6:

(aviation) Pertaining to a vehicle which travels through the air; airborne; relating to or conducted by means of aircraft.


slip

en-verb

slip (third-person singular simple present slips, present participle slipping, simple past and past participle slipped or (obsolete) slipt)

slips (present singular third-person)
slipping (participle present)
slipped (participle past)
slipped (past)
slipt (obsolete participle past)
slipt (obsolete past)

From Middle English slippen, probably from Middle Low German slippen, from Old Saxon *slippian, from Proto-West Germanic *slippjan, from Proto-Germanic *slipjaną (“to glide”), an iterative form of *slīpaną (“to slip, slide”), from Proto-Indo-European *sleyb- (“slimy; to slide”). Possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *slewbʰ- (“slip, slide”), or related to Proto-Germanic *slībaną (“to split”); related to Old English slipor (“slippery”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian slipje (“to slip”), Dutch slippen (“to slip”), German Low German slippen, slupen (“to slip”), German schlüpfen (“to slip”).

der

(intransitive, aviation, of an aircraft) Clipping of sideslip (“to fly with the longitudinal axis misaligned with the relative wind”)..


slip

there's many a slip between the cup and the lip

there's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip

(nautical, aviation) A difference between the theoretical distance traveled per revolution of the propeller and the actual advance of the vessel.

jättämä

nautical: difference between theoretical and actual advance of a vessel


carrier

но́сьбіт

person or object that carries someone or something else

Southwest, the nation’s largest domestic carrier, is installing seats with less cushion and thinner materials — a svelte model known in the business as “slim-line.”

2013 December 22, Jad Mouawad, Martha C. White, New York Times, retrieved 2013-12-23:


skid

From Middle English *skid, from Old Norse skíð (“a billet of wood, a beam or plank on which something rests”), from Proto-Germanic *skīdą (“log, clapboard”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey-t-, *skey- (“to split, divide, separate”). Cognate with English shide, from Middle English schyd, schyde, schide (“plank, beam”), German Scheit (“piece of wood, log”). Doublet of ski.

inh

(aviation) A banked sideslip where the aircraft's nose is yawed towards the low wing, often due to excessive rudder input.


skid

en-verb

skid (third-person singular simple present skids, present participle skidding, simple past and past participle skidded)

skids (present singular third-person)
skidding (participle present)
skidded (participle past)
skidded (past)

Don't use excessive rudder when turning, especially at low airspeed, as this causes your plane to skid through the turn, which can cause you to very rapidly enter a spin if the inner wing stalls.

Because of the jammed ailerons, the pilot had to use careful rudder inputs to skid his plane in order to turn it so he could get lined up with the runway.

(intransitive, transitive, aviation) To operate an aircraft in a banked sideslip with the nose yawed towards the low wing.


flag

en-noun

flag (countable and uncountable, plural flags)

From Middle English flag, flagge (“flag”), further etymology uncertain. Perhaps from or related to early Middle English flage (name for a baby's garment) and Old English flagg, flacg (“cataplasm, poultice, plaster”). Or, perhaps ultimately imitative, or otherwise drawn from Proto-Germanic *flaką (“something flat”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat, broad, plain”), referring to the shape.
Germanic cognates include Saterland Frisian Flaage (“flag”), West Frisian flagge (“flag”), Dutch vlag (“flag”), German Flagge (“flag”), Swedish flagga (“flag”), Danish flag (“flag, ship's flag”). Compare also Middle English flacken (“to flutter, palpitate”), Swedish dialectal flage (“to flutter in the wind”), Old Norse flögra (“to flap about”). Akin to Old High German flogarōn (“to flutter”), Old High German flogezen (“to flutter, flicker”), Middle English flakeren (“to move quickly to and fro”), Old English flacor (“fluttering, flying”). More at flack, flacker.

onomatopoeic

imitative

cog

I was shooting an IFR approach down the San Francisco slot, when all of a sudden the ILS flag popped up.

1966, Barry J. Schiff, All about Flying: An Introduction to the World of Flying, page 72:

[…] and then the OFF flag popped up and the needle went dead.

1980, Paul Garrison, Flying VFR in marginal weather, page 139:

(aviation) A mechanical indicator that pops up to draw the pilot's attention to a problem or malfunction.


guard

From Middle English garde, from early Middle French or late Old French guarde (“a guardian, warden, keeper”) (whence modern French garde), from the verb guarder. Doublet of garda, which is from Irish.

der

(aviation) The aircraft emergency frequency, a radio frequency reserved for emergency communications, typically 121.5MHz for civilian use.


steward

nl-noun

steward m (plural stewards, feminine stewardess)

(aviation) steward, male flight attendant


steward

pl-noun

steward m pers (female equivalent stewardesa)

stewardesa (feminine)
steward (nominative singular)
stewardzi (nominative plural)
stewardowie (nominative plural)
stewardy (derogatory nominative plural)
stewarda (genitive singular)
stewardów (genitive plural)
stewardowi (dative singular)
stewardom (dative plural)
stewarda (accusative singular)
stewardów (accusative plural)
stewardem (instrumental singular)
stewardami (instrumental plural)
stewardzie (locative singular)
stewardach (locative plural)
stewardzie (singular vocative)
stewardzi (plural vocative)
stewardowie (plural vocative)
stewardy (derogatory plural vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from English steward.

ubor

(aviation) steward, flight attendant, air host


cannon

en-noun

cannon (countable and uncountable, plural cannons or (mainly UK) cannon)

cannons (plural)
cannon (UK mainly plural)

Attested from around 1400 as Middle English canon, canoun, from Old French canon, from Italian cannone, from Latin canna, from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na). Doublet of canyon.
This spelling was not fixed until about 1800.

Any similar device for shooting material out of a tube.

(military, chiefly aviation) An autocannon.


batsman

batswoman

batsman; when is treated as both male and female

(aviation, historical) An officer who used a pair of hand-held bats to signal to aircraft as they came in to land on the flight deck.


direct

en-adj

direct (comparative more direct, superlative most direct)

more direct (comparative)
most direct (superlative)

/daɪ̯əˈɹɛkt/

Borrowed from Latin dīrectus, perfect passive participle of dīrigō (“straighten, direct”), from dis- (“asunder, in pieces, apart, in two”) + regō (“make straight, rule”). Compare dress. Doublet of derecho.
For the meaning development compare with Russian напра́вить (naprávitʹ, “to direct, to turn, to aim, to level, to point”), отпра́вить (otprávitʹ, “to send, to dispatch, to forward”) connected with пра́вить (právitʹ, “to govern, to rule, to drive, to steer”).

m+

(aviation, travel) Having a single flight number.


canard

Borrowed from French canard (“duck, hoax”).
etymology note
The primary English meaning of canard comes from the Medieval French expression “vendre un canard à moitié”, which literally means “to sell half a duck” or “to half-sell a duck”. This was perhaps the punch line to a joke. Eventually the punch line came to stand for the joke and then finally the word alone stood for the whole concept. The story may perhaps have gone like this: A duck seller is successful and content as the only duck seller on a street, selling his ducks for eight francs each. A new duck seller moves in across the street who steals all the business by offering his ducks for seven francs each. Then a price war ensues, back and forth, until the new duck seller is down to three francs for a duck. The original duck seller is beside himself with worry and frustration, but finally he puts up a big sign that says, “Two francs” and then in small print at the bottom “for half a duck.” In this way, to half-sell ducks may have come to mean tricking people with something that is literally true but misleading. It has this same metaphorical meaning in French. Now in English, it simply means anything that is deliberately misleading, a hoax.

(aviation) A type of aircraft in which the primary horizontal control and stabilization surfaces are in front of the main wing.

(aviation, by extension) A horizontal control and stabilization surface located in front of the main wing of an aircraft.


cricket

From Middle English creket, crykett, crykette, from Old French criket (with diminutive -et) from criquer (“to make a cracking sound; creak”), from Middle Dutch kricken (“to creak; crack”), from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn, from Proto-Germanic *krakōną, related to Middle English creken, criken (“to creak”), all ultimately of imitative origin.
Compare Dutch kriek (“cricket”), Middle Dutch krikel, criekel, crekel (“cricket”) (with diminituve -el), Middle Low German krikel, krekel (“cricket”), German Kreckel (“cricket”). More at creak.

onomatopoeic

imitative

(aviation, slang) An aural warning sound consisting of a continuously-repeating chime, designed to be difficult for pilots to ignore.


instrument

From Middle English instrument, from Old French instrument, from Latin īnstrūmentum (“an implement, tool”),
From īnstruō (“build, construct; arrange”) + -mentum.

suffix

Flight within clouds must be made by reference to your instruments.

flight instrument
flight instrument#English

A tool, implement used for manipulation or measurement.

(aviation, usually in the plural) Ellipsis of flight instrument.


hangar

hangaren (definite singular)
hangarer (indefinite plural)
hangarene (definite plural)


hangar

hangaren (definite singular)
hangarar (indefinite plural)
hangarane (definite plural)


spot

en-verb

spot (third-person singular simple present spots, present participle spotting, simple past and past participle spotted)

spots (present singular third-person)
spotting (participle present)
spotted (participle past)
spotted (past)

From Middle English spot, spotte, partially from Middle Dutch spotte (“spot, speck”), and partially merging with Middle English splot, from Old English splott (“spot, plot of land”), from Proto-West Germanic *splott, from Proto-Germanic *spluttaz (“segment”), from Proto-Indo-European *splt-no- (“an off-split, segment”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pel- (“to split”). Cognate with North Frisian spot (“speck, piece of ground”), Low German spot (“speck”), Old Norse spotti (“small piece”). See also splot, splotch.

cog

The aircraft is spotted on the catapult, and the console operator turns the crank to FIRST READY, causing the exhaust valve to close.

1959, Aviation Boatswain's Mate 3 & 2: Navy Training Courses, United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel, page 315:

This spotting order varies from carrier to carrier to suit the flight-deck layout. Certain aircraft must be spotted in a specific location to permit servicing, loading of ammunition, starting, maintenance, and so forth.

(aviation, military, transitive) To position (an aircraft) on the deck of an aircraft carrier ready for launch by catapult.


walk

en-verb

walk (third-person singular simple present walks, present participle walking, simple past and past participle walked)

walks (present singular third-person)
walking (participle present)
walked (participle past)
walked (past)
walk (infinitive)

Chinese Pidgin English: walkee

From Middle English walken (“to move, walk, roll, turn, revolve, toss”), a conflation of Old English wealcan (“to move round, revolve, roll, turn, toss”) (ġewealcan (“to go, traverse”)) and Old English wealcian (“to curl, roll up”); both from Proto-West Germanic *walkan, from Proto-Germanic *walkaną, *walkōną (“to twist, turn, roll about, full”), from Proto-Indo-European *walg- (“to twist, turn, move”).
Cognate with Scots walk (“to walk”), Saterland Frisian walkje (“to full; drum; flex; mill”), West Frisian swalkje (“to wander, roam”), Dutch walken (“to full, work hair or felt”), Dutch zwalken (“to wander about”), German walken (“to flex, full, mill, drum”), Danish valke (“to waulk, full”), Latin valgus (“bandy-legged, bow-legged”), Sanskrit वल्गति (valgati, “amble, bound, leap, dance”). More at vagrant and whelk. Doublet of waulk.

cog

Still keeping his tail in the air, Red coaxed the “Airknocker” ahead and as we grasped his struts he slowly retarded the throttle. We walked the plane between two tiedown blocks and not until we had tied the struts did Red cut the switch.

1950, Flying Magazine, volume 46, number 3, page 18:

(transitive, aviation) To operate the left and right throttles of (an aircraft) in alternation.


buffet

en-noun

buffet (countable and uncountable, plural buffets)

From Middle English buffet (“buffet”), from Old French buffet, diminutive of buffe, cognate with Italian buffetto. See buffer, buffoon, and compare German puffen (“to jostle, to hustle”).

The aircraft configuration was such that there was little or no warning of the stall onset. The inboard slats were extended, and therefore, the flow separation from the stall would be limited to the outboard segment of the left wing and would not be felt by the left horizontal stabilizer. There would be little or no buffet. The DFDR also indicated that there was some turbulence, which could have masked any aerodynamic buffeting. Since the roll to the left began at V₂ + 6 and since the pilots were aware that V₂ was well above the aircraft's stall speed, they probably did not suspect that the roll to the left indicated a stall. In fact, the roll probably confused them, especially since the stickshaker had not activated.

1979 December 21, National Transportation Safety Board, “Aircraft and Flightcrew Performance”, in Aircraft Accident Report: American Airlines, Inc., DC-10-10, N110AA, Chicago-O'Hare International Airport, Chicago, Illinois, May 25, 1979, archived from the original on 2022-08-17, page 54:

(aviation, uncountable) The vibration of an aircraft when flying in or approaching a stall, caused by separation of airflow from the aircraft's wings.


trap

trap (countable and uncountable, plural traps)

From Middle English trappe, from Old English træppe, treppe (“trap, snare”) (also in betræppan (“to trap”)) from Proto-West Germanic *trappjā (“trap, snare”), from Proto-West Germanic *trappjan (“to step”), from Proto-Germanic *trapjaną (“to tread, stamp”), from Proto-Indo-European *drebʰ- (“to step, trip, trample”).
Cognate with Dutch trap (“trap, snare”), German Low German Trapp (“trap”). Akin also to West Frisian traap (“stepping, treading, stairway”), German Treppe (“step, stair”), Old English træppan (“to step, tread”). Connection to "step" is "that upon which one steps". French trappe and Spanish trampa are ultimately borrowings from Germanic.

vēuháutsīe

a type of trap to catch birds using bait with adjustable loop

After 100 traps, the arresting cables have to be replaced to minimize the danger of a worn or fatigued cable snapping under an aircraft.

(aviation, military, slang) A successful landing on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear.


trap

en-verb

trap (third-person singular simple present traps, present participle trapping, simple past and past participle trapped)

traps (present singular third-person)
trapping (participle present)
trapped (participle past)
trapped (past)

After three consecutive bolters, the pilot finally trapped successfully on the Nimitz.

(aviation, military, slang, intransitive) To successfully land an aircraft on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear.


ditch

ditch (third-person singular simple present ditches, present participle ditching, simple past and past participle ditched)

ditches (present singular third-person)
ditching (participle present)
ditched (participle past)
ditched (past)

From Middle English dich, from Old English dīċ (“trench, moat”) from Proto-Germanic *dīkaz (compare Swedish dike, Icelandic díki, West Frisian dyk (“dam”), Dutch dijk (“dam”), German Teich (“pond”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ- (“to stick, set up”) (compare Latin fīgō (“to affix, fasten”), Lithuanian diegti (“to prick; plant”), dýgsti (“to geminate, grow”)). Doublet of dike.

inh

совершать вынужденную посадку на воду

When the second engine failed, the pilot was forced to ditch; their last location was just south of the Azores.

(transitive, intransitive, aviation) To deliberately crash-land an airplane on water.


DAC

(international standards, aviation) IATA airport code for Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, which serves Dhaka, Bangladesh.


rigid

From Middle English rigide, from Latin rigidus (“stiff”), from rigeō (“I am stiff”). Compare rigor. Merged with Middle English rigged, rygged, rugged (“upright like a spine, rigid”, literally “ridged”), from ridge + -ed.

The rigid could reach the greatest sizes and speeds of any airship, but was expensive to build and bulky to store. Rigids fell out of favor after the R101 and Hindenburg disasters made the type seem unsafe to the travelling public.

atmospheric pressure
atmospheric pressure

(aviation) An airship whose shape is maintained solely by an internal and/or external rigid structural framework, without using internal gas pressure to stiffen the vehicle (the lifting gas is at atmospheric pressure); typically also equipped with multiple redundant gasbags, unlike other types of airship.


TCP

(travel, aviation) Initialism of to complete party (followed by total number in group. Code used in OSI to advise an airline that other passengers are travelling with a person but are booked separately)


AAC

(international standards, aviation) IATA airport code for El Arish International Airport, which serves Arish, North Sinai, Egypt.


AAC

en-noun

AAC (countable and uncountable, plural AACs)

aeronautical approach chart
aeronautical approach chart#English

(aviation) Initialism of aeronautical approach chart.

airborne aircraft carrier
airborne aircraft carrier#English

(military, aviation) Abbreviation of airborne aircraft carrier.

aircraft armament change
aircraft armament change#English

(aviation, military) Initialism of aircraft armament change.


NTSC

w:National Transportation Safety Committee

(aviation) Synonym of KNKT (“Komite Nasional Keselamatan Transportasi”); Initialism of National Transportation Safety Committee; (Indonesia)


RF

Combination of prefix F and prefix modifier R

(US, military, aviation) reconnaissance fighter; an unarmed fighter modified for photo-reconnaissance (prefix)


piste

→ Catalan: pista

→ Dutch: piste

→ English: piste

→ German: Piste

→ Greek: πίστα (písta)

→ Persian: پیست (pist)

→ Turkish: pist

Borrowed from Italian pista, variant of pesta (“footprint”).

piste d’atterrissage


kello

kello (nominative singular)
kellot (nominative plural)
kello (accusative nominative singular)
kellot (accusative nominative plural)
kellon (accusative genitive singular)
kellot (accusative genitive plural)
kellon (genitive singular)
kellojen (genitive plural)
kelloa (partitive singular)
kelloja (partitive plural)
kellossa (inessive singular)
kelloissa (inessive plural)
kellosta (elative singular)
kelloista (elative plural)
kelloon (illative singular)
kelloihin (illative plural)
kellolla (adessive singular)
kelloilla (adessive plural)
kellolta (ablative singular)
kelloilta (ablative plural)
kellolle (allative singular)
kelloille (allative plural)
kellona (essive singular)
kelloina (essive plural)
kelloksi (singular translative)
kelloiksi (plural translative)
kellotta (abessive singular)
kelloitta (abessive plural)
kelloin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
kelloni (nominative singular)
kelloni (nominative plural)
kelloni (accusative nominative singular)
kelloni (accusative nominative plural)
kelloni (accusative genitive singular)
kelloni (accusative genitive plural)
kelloni (genitive singular)
kellojeni (genitive plural)
kelloani (partitive singular)
kellojani (partitive plural)
kellossani (inessive singular)
kelloissani (inessive plural)
kellostani (elative singular)
kelloistani (elative plural)
kellooni (illative singular)
kelloihini (illative plural)
kellollani (adessive singular)
kelloillani (adessive plural)
kelloltani (ablative singular)
kelloiltani (ablative plural)
kellolleni (allative singular)
kelloilleni (allative plural)
kellonani (essive singular)
kelloinani (essive plural)
kellokseni (singular translative)
kelloikseni (plural translative)
kellottani (abessive singular)
kelloittani (abessive plural)
kelloineni (comitative plural)
kellosi (nominative singular)
kellosi (nominative plural)
kellosi (accusative nominative singular)
kellosi (accusative nominative plural)
kellosi (accusative genitive singular)
kellosi (accusative genitive plural)
kellosi (genitive singular)
kellojesi (genitive plural)
kelloasi (partitive singular)
kellojasi (partitive plural)
kellossasi (inessive singular)
kelloissasi (inessive plural)
kellostasi (elative singular)
kelloistasi (elative plural)
kelloosi (illative singular)
kelloihisi (illative plural)
kellollasi (adessive singular)
kelloillasi (adessive plural)
kelloltasi (ablative singular)
kelloiltasi (ablative plural)
kellollesi (allative singular)
kelloillesi (allative plural)
kellonasi (essive singular)
kelloinasi (essive plural)
kelloksesi (singular translative)
kelloiksesi (plural translative)
kellottasi (abessive singular)
kelloittasi (abessive plural)
kelloinesi (comitative plural)
kellomme (nominative singular)
kellomme (nominative plural)
kellomme (accusative nominative singular)
kellomme (accusative nominative plural)
kellomme (accusative genitive singular)
kellomme (accusative genitive plural)
kellomme (genitive singular)
kellojemme (genitive plural)
kelloamme (partitive singular)
kellojamme (partitive plural)
kellossamme (inessive singular)
kelloissamme (inessive plural)
kellostamme (elative singular)
kelloistamme (elative plural)
kelloomme (illative singular)
kelloihimme (illative plural)
kellollamme (adessive singular)
kelloillamme (adessive plural)
kelloltamme (ablative singular)
kelloiltamme (ablative plural)
kellollemme (allative singular)
kelloillemme (allative plural)
kellonamme (essive singular)
kelloinamme (essive plural)
kelloksemme (singular translative)
kelloiksemme (plural translative)
kellottamme (abessive singular)
kelloittamme (abessive plural)
kelloinemme (comitative plural)
kellonne (nominative singular)
kellonne (nominative plural)
kellonne (accusative nominative singular)
kellonne (accusative nominative plural)
kellonne (accusative genitive singular)
kellonne (accusative genitive plural)
kellonne (genitive singular)
kellojenne (genitive plural)
kelloanne (partitive singular)
kellojanne (partitive plural)
kellossanne (inessive singular)
kelloissanne (inessive plural)
kellostanne (elative singular)
kelloistanne (elative plural)
kelloonne (illative singular)
kelloihinne (illative plural)
kellollanne (adessive singular)
kelloillanne (adessive plural)
kelloltanne (ablative singular)
kelloiltanne (ablative plural)
kellollenne (allative singular)
kelloillenne (allative plural)
kellonanne (essive singular)
kelloinanne (essive plural)
kelloksenne (singular translative)
kelloiksenne (plural translative)
kellottanne (abessive singular)
kelloittanne (abessive plural)
kelloinenne (comitative plural)
kellonsa (nominative singular)
kellonsa (nominative plural)
kellonsa (accusative nominative singular)
kellonsa (accusative nominative plural)
kellonsa (accusative genitive singular)
kellonsa (accusative genitive plural)
kellonsa (genitive singular)
kellojensa (genitive plural)
kelloaan (partitive singular)
kelloansa (partitive singular)
kellojaan (partitive plural)
kellojansa (partitive plural)
kellossaan (inessive singular)
kellossansa (inessive singular)
kelloissaan (inessive plural)
kelloissansa (inessive plural)
kellostaan (elative singular)
kellostansa (elative singular)
kelloistaan (elative plural)
kelloistansa (elative plural)
kelloonsa (illative singular)
kelloihinsa (illative plural)
kellollaan (adessive singular)
kellollansa (adessive singular)
kelloillaan (adessive plural)
kelloillansa (adessive plural)
kelloltaan (ablative singular)
kelloltansa (ablative singular)
kelloiltaan (ablative plural)
kelloiltansa (ablative plural)
kellolleen (allative singular)
kellollensa (allative singular)
kelloilleen (allative plural)
kelloillensa (allative plural)
kellonaan (essive singular)
kellonansa (essive singular)
kelloinaan (essive plural)
kelloinansa (essive plural)
kellokseen (singular translative)
kelloksensa (singular translative)
kelloikseen (plural translative)
kelloiksensa (plural translative)
kellottaan (abessive singular)
kellottansa (abessive singular)
kelloittaan (abessive plural)
kelloittansa (abessive plural)
kelloineen (comitative plural)
kelloinensa (comitative plural)

From Proto-Finnic *këllo (compare Karelian kello, Ludian kello, Veps kelo), borrowed from Proto-Germanic *skellǭ (“bell”) (compare German Schelle and Swedish skälla (“bell”)).

Tunnistamaton lentokone kello kahdessa!

An unidentified aeroplane at two o'clock!

(nautical, aviation) o'clock (used to indicate direction in relation to the vessel's position so that 12 is straight ahead and 6 is straight behind)


economy class syndrome

From its noted occurrence among airline passengers flying long haul in economy class, where there is less legroom than other classes.

Deep vein thrombosis
deep vein thrombosis#English

(pathology, slang) Deep vein thrombosis.


repülőgép

repülőgépek (plural)
repülőgép (nominative singular)
repülőgépek (nominative plural)
repülőgépet (accusative singular)
repülőgépeket (accusative plural)
repülőgépnek (dative singular)
repülőgépeknek (dative plural)
repülőgéppel (instrumental singular)
repülőgépekkel (instrumental plural)
repülőgépért (causal-final singular)
repülőgépekért (causal-final plural)
repülőgéppé (singular translative)
repülőgépekké (plural translative)
repülőgépig (singular terminative)
repülőgépekig (plural terminative)
repülőgépként (essive-formal singular)
repülőgépekként (essive-formal plural)
repülőgépben (inessive singular)
repülőgépekben (inessive plural)
repülőgépen (singular superessive)
repülőgépeken (plural superessive)
repülőgépnél (adessive singular)
repülőgépeknél (adessive plural)
repülőgépbe (illative singular)
repülőgépekbe (illative plural)
repülőgépre (singular sublative)
repülőgépekre (plural sublative)
repülőgéphez (allative singular)
repülőgépekhez (allative plural)
repülőgépből (elative singular)
repülőgépekből (elative plural)
repülőgépről (delative singular)
repülőgépekről (delative plural)
repülőgéptől (ablative singular)
repülőgépektől (ablative plural)
repülőgépé (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
repülőgépeké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
repülőgépéi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
repülőgépekéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
repülőgépem (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
repülőgépeim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
repülőgéped (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
repülőgépeid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
repülőgépe (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
repülőgépei (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
repülőgépünk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
repülőgépeink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
repülőgépetek (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
repülőgépeitek (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
repülőgépük (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
repülőgépeik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

re‧pü‧lő‧gép

repülő (“flying”) + gép (“machine”)
Attested since at least 1842, in an article about hot air balloons. (see quote)


snatch

From Middle English snacchen, snecchen, from Old English *snæċċan, *sneċċan, from Proto-West Germanic *snakkijan, from Proto-Germanic *snakkijaną, *snakkōną (“to nibble, snort, chatter”); see *snūtaz (“snout”).
Cognate with Dutch snakken (“to sob, pant, long for”), Low German snacken (“to chatter”), German schnacken (“to chat”), Norwegian snakke (“to chat”). Related to snack.

cog

If, after the pilot notices the overspeed, he deploys the spoilers, or if aileron "snatch" rolls the airplane to an excessive bank angle, it may become impossible to recover.

1982, National Transportation Safety Board, quoting Federal Aviation Administration, Learjet Special Certification Review interim report, 1981, quoted in Aircraft Accident Report: Sky Train Air, Inc., Gates Learjet 24, N44CJ, Felt, Oklahoma, October 1, 1981, archived from the original 21 February 2021, retrieved 2021-02-20, page 17:

(aviation) Rapid, uncommanded jerking or oscillation of the ailerons of some aircraft at high Mach numbers, resulting from shock wave formation at transonic speeds.


ADD

(international standards, aviation) IATA airport code for Addis Ababa Bole International Airport, which serves Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.


root

en-noun

root (countable and uncountable, plural roots)

→ Irish: rúta

From Middle English rote, root, roote (“the underground part of a plant”), from late Old English rōt, from Old Norse rót (Icelandic rót), from Proto-Germanic *wrōts, from Proto-Indo-European *wréh₂ds (“root”); Doublet of wort, radish, and radix.

the love of money is the root of all evil

(aviation) The section of a wing immediately adjacent to the fuselage.


propeller

→ Dutch: propeller

→ German: Propeller

→ Swedish: propeller

A mechanical device with evenly-shaped blades that turn on a shaft to push against air or water, especially one used to propel an aircraft or boat.


ski

→ Japanese: スキー (sukī)

→ Korean: 스키 (seuki)

→ Okinawan: スキー

→ Thai: สกี (sà-gii)

From Norwegian ski, from Old Norse skíð (“stick of wood, snowshoe”), from Proto-Germanic *skīdą (“stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to cut, split”) (see also shed). Cognate with Old English sċīd (“stick of wood”) (Modern English shide), Old High German skit (Modern German Scheit (“log”)).

der

(aviation) One of a pair of long flat runners under some flying machines, used for landing.


glider

From Middle English glider, glydare, equivalent to glide + -er.

Any heavier-than-air aircraft optimised for unpowered flight; a sailplane.


knot

From Middle English knotte, from Old English cnotta, from Proto-West Germanic *knottō, from Proto-Germanic *knuttô, *knudô (“knot”); probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gnod- (“to bind”).
See also Old High German knoto (German Knoten, Dutch knot, Low German Knütte; also Old Norse knútr > Danish knude, Swedish knut, Norwegian knute, Faroese knútur, Icelandic hnútur; also Latin nōdus and its Romance descendants. Doublet of knout, node, and nodus.
* (unit of speed): From the practice of counting the number of knots in the log-line (as it is paid out) in a standard time. Traditionally spaced at one every ¹⁄₁₂₀ of a mile.

Cedric claimed his old yacht could make 12 knots.

(aviation, nautical) A unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour.

In the early stages of reentry, due to the extremely-rarefied air at these altitudes, the space shuttle flew at only one to a few knots equivalent airspeed, even when its actual speed was many thousands of knots.

(aviation) A unit of indicated airspeed, calibrated airspeed, or equivalent airspeed, which varies in its relation to the unit of speed so as to compensate for the effects of different ambient atmospheric conditions on aircraft performance.


knot

id-noun

knot (first-person possessive knotku, second-person possessive knotmu, third-person possessive knotnya)

knotku (first-person possessive)
knotmu (possessive second-person)
knotnya (possessive third-person)

Internationalism, borrowed from English knot (“a unit of speed”, literally “a looping of a piece of string”), from Middle English knotte, from Old English cnotta, from Proto-West Germanic *knottō, from Proto-Germanic *knuttô, *knudô (“knot”); probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gnod- (“to bind”).

bor+

(aviation, nautical) a unit of speed, equal to one nautical mile per hour.

(aviation) a unit of indicated airspeed, calibrated airspeed, or equivalent airspeed, which varies in its relation to the unit of speed so as to compensate for the effects of different ambient atmospheric conditions on aircraft performance.


passive

en-adj

passive (comparative more passive, superlative most passive)

more passive (comparative)
most passive (superlative)

From Middle English passyf, passyve, from Middle French, French passif, from Latin passivus (“serving to express the suffering of an action; in late Latin literally capable of suffering or feeling”), from passus, past participle of pati (“to suffer”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (“to hurt”); compare patient.

der

a passive balloon

a passive aeroplane

passive flight, such as gliding and soaring


George

→ Arabic: جورج (jorj)

→ Cebuano: George

→ Cantonese: 佐治 (zo2 zi6)

→ Chinese: 喬治／乔治 (Qiáozhì)

→ Hawaiian: Keoki

→ Japanese: ジョージ (Jōji)

→ Korean: 조지 (Joji)

→ Maori: Hōri
→ English: hori

→ Persian: جورج (jorj)

→ Swedish: George

Name of an early saint, from Middle English George, from Latin Geōrgius, from Ancient Greek Γεώργῐος (Geṓrgios), from γεωργός (geōrgós, “farmer, earth worker”), from γῆ (gê, “earth”) (combining form γεω- (geō-)) + ἔργον (érgon, “work”) Doublet of Jorge and Geevarghese.
The aircraft autopilot sense is probably from George DeBeeson, who patented an early (1931) autopilot system, and/or a reference to the expression let George do it. The Pullman porter sense derives from George Pullman, who hired Black people to staff his sleeping cars, and the patrons of the service seeing the Black people as servants of George Porter, much like how an enslaved person was named after the enslaver.

"'George rides in the back, aft of the baggage compartment,” said Aviation Sales Manager, John Brophy, with a smile as he climbed out. […] I switched on the autopilot and turned the turn knob to the left to get the turn-bank indicator to show a one-needle turn. Instantly, George rolled the Cessna into a smooth 10° bank to the left.

1956, Flying Magazine, volume 59, number 6, page 33:

I relied on "George" and "Fred"—the autopilot and the flight director—to fly the airplane while I worked my way through […]

(aviation, slang) The autopilot of an aircraft.


depart

en-verb

depart (third-person singular simple present departs, present participle departing, simple past and past participle departed)

departs (present singular third-person)
departing (participle present)
departed (participle past)
departed (past)
depart (infinitive)

From Old French departir, from Late Latin departiō (“to divide”), from dē- (“away from”) + partiō (“part, divide”).

prefix

The envelope protection system allows the pilot to maneuver at high angles of attack without the risk of departing the airplane

(transitive, intransitive, aviation) To lose control of an aircraft; to "depart" (sense 5) from controlled flight (with the aircraft as the direct object)


sock

en-noun

sock (plural socks or (informal, nonstandard) sox)

socks (plural)
sox (informal nonstandard plural)

desctree

→ French: socquette
→ Portuguese: soquete

Japanese: ソックス (sokkusu) < socks

Swahili: soksi < socks (plural)

From Middle English socke, sokke, sok, from Old English socc (“sock, light shoe, slipper”), a West Germanic borrowing from Latin soccus (“a light shoe or slipper, buskin”), from Ancient Greek σύκχος (súkkhos, “a kind of shoe”), probably from Phrygian or from an Anatolian language. Beekes compares Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬑𐬀 (haxa, “sole of the foot”). Cognate with Scots sok (“sock, stocking”), West Frisian sok (“sock”), Dutch sok (“sock”), German Socke (“sock”), Danish sok, sokke (“sock”), Swedish sock, socka (“sock”), Icelandic sokkur (“sock”). Doublet of zocco; also related to zoccolo, socle, and zocalo.

der

At 1331:58, UA Flight 757 reported that it was ready for takeoff on runway 35R. However, at 1332:05, 7 seconds later, it reported, "Ah, this is seven fifty seven, our sock sitting in front of us gives us a pretty good tail wind so we're not ready to go yet." The controller asked the flight to advise him when conditions were better.

1985 March 21, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.1 History of the Flight”, in Aircraft Accident Report: United Airlines Flight 663, Boeing 727-222, N7647U, Denver, Colorado, May 31, 1984, page 4:

(aviation, informal) Ellipsis of windsock.


bogie

A dialectal word from Northern England of unknown origin which is unrelated to bogey (“hostile supernatural creature; terrifying thing, bugbear”).

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-bogie.wav

Although most A320s have two wheels on each of their main gear, a few built for the Indian market have four-wheel bogies, halving the amount of weight on each wheel and allowing the aircraft to use runways that couldn't withstand the ground pressure from a standard A320.

(aviation, by extension) A set of wheels attached to one of an aircraft's landing gear, or the structure connecting the wheels in one such set.


bogie

(aviation, military, slang) An unidentified aircraft, especially as observed as a spot on a radar screen and suspected to be hostile.


bogey

Probably related to or alteration of bogle, akin to or from a variant of Middle English bugge (“frightening specter, scarecrow”) (whence partly bug), of uncertain origin: perhaps from obsolete Welsh bwg (“ghost, hobgoblin”) (compare Welsh bwgwl (“threat”, older “fear”), Irish bagairt (“threat”)), from Proto-Celtic [Term?], or from Proto-Germanic *bugja- (“swollen up, thick”) (compare Norwegian bugge (“big man”), dialectal Low German Bögge and Alemannic German Böögg (“goblin”, “snot”)); see also Proto-Germanic *pūkô (“a goblin, spook”), whence obsolete English puck. Perhaps the Middle English and Welsh words come from a word related to buck and originally referred to a goat-shaped specter. Compare also booger.
The golf sense is from the devil as an imaginary player.

m+

He stood on the sand near the gravel road that passed within two miles of the site of the disintegrated bogey, binoculars hanging on a leather strap from his neck, face streaming with sweat under the brim of his hat... Army and government trucks passed along the road every few minutes, some bearing radiation stickers; many of those outward bound, he knew, carried fragments of the bogey. He was not privy to what they were finding.

1987, Greg Bear, “Lacrimosa Dies Illa!”, in The Forge of God (science fiction), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 83:

United States Department of Defense Air Land Sea Application Center

(military, aviation) An unidentified aircraft, especially as observed as a spot on a radar screen and suspected to be hostile.

God dammit, Mustang! This is Ghost Rider 117. This bogey is all over me. He's got missile lock on me. Do I have permission to fire?

1986, Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr., Top Gun (motion picture), spoken by Cougar:

(military, aviation, slang) Synonym of bandit: an enemy aircraft.


aeroplano

aeroplano (absolutive indefinite)
aeroplanoa (absolutive indefinite singular)
aeroplanoak (absolutive indefinite plural)
aeroplanok (ergative indefinite)
aeroplanoak (ergative indefinite singular)
aeroplanoek (ergative indefinite plural)
aeroplanori (dative indefinite)
aeroplanoari (dative indefinite singular)
aeroplanoei (dative indefinite plural)
aeroplanoren (genitive indefinite)
aeroplanoaren (genitive indefinite singular)
aeroplanoen (genitive indefinite plural)
aeroplanorekin (comitative indefinite)
aeroplanoarekin (comitative indefinite singular)
aeroplanoekin (comitative indefinite plural)
aeroplanorengatik (causative indefinite)
aeroplanoarengatik (causative indefinite singular)
aeroplanoengatik (causative indefinite plural)
aeroplanorentzat (benefactive indefinite)
aeroplanoarentzat (benefactive indefinite singular)
aeroplanoentzat (benefactive indefinite plural)
aeroplanoz (indefinite instrumental)
aeroplanoaz (indefinite instrumental singular)
aeroplanoez (indefinite instrumental plural)
aeroplanotan (indefinite inessive)
aeroplanoan (indefinite inessive singular)
aeroplanoetan (indefinite inessive plural)
aeroplanotako (indefinite locative)
aeroplanoko (indefinite locative singular)
aeroplanoetako (indefinite locative plural)
aeroplanotara (allative indefinite)
aeroplanora (allative indefinite singular)
aeroplanoetara (allative indefinite plural)
aeroplanotaraino (indefinite terminative)
aeroplanoraino (indefinite singular terminative)
aeroplanoetaraino (indefinite plural terminative)
aeroplanotarantz (directive indefinite)
aeroplanorantz (directive indefinite singular)
aeroplanoetarantz (directive indefinite plural)
aeroplanotarako (destinative indefinite)
aeroplanorako (destinative indefinite singular)
aeroplanoetarako (destinative indefinite plural)
aeroplanotatik (ablative indefinite)
aeroplanotik (ablative indefinite singular)
aeroplanoetatik (ablative indefinite plural)
aeroplanorik (indefinite partitive)
aeroplanotzat (indefinite prolative)

Borrowed from Spanish aeroplano (“aeroplane”).


aeroplano

eo-head

aeroplano (accusative singular aeroplanon, plural aeroplanoj, accusative plural aeroplanojn)

aeroplanon (accusative singular)
aeroplanoj (plural)
aeroplanojn (accusative plural)

From French aéroplane. By surface analysis, aero + plano.

La aeroplano flugadis tre rapide kaj trapasis grizajn nubojn.

The airplane flew very fast and passed through grey clouds.


aeroplano

Borrowed from English aeroplane, airplane, French aéroplane, Italian aeroplano, Russian аэропла́н (aeroplán), Spanish aeroplano, all ultimately from Ancient Greek ἀερόπλανος (aeróplanos).


aeroplano

From French aéroplane, from Ancient Greek ἀερόπλανος (aeróplanos, “wandering in air”), from ἀήρ (aḗr, “air”) + πλάνος (plános, “wandering”).


approach

From Middle English approche (“approach, arrival”), from approchen, aprochen (“to come or go near, approach; to adjoin, be close by; to enter (someone’s) presence; to be or become involved; to reach (a certain state); to arrive; to befall, happen to; to become similar to, resemble; to be a match for (someone)”); see etymology 1.

вход

avenue, passage, or way by which a building or place can be approached — see also access

захо́д

Most small airplanes maintain a speed well in excess of 1.3 times V_(SO) on an instrument approach. An airplane with a stall speed of 50 knots (V_(SO)) has a normal approach speed of 65 knots.

2001, “Aerodynamic Factors”, in Instrument Flying Handbook 2001 (FAA-H-8083-15), Washington, D.C.: Flight Standards Service, Federal Aviation Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation, →ISBN, page 2-6, column 2:

(aviation, also attributively) The way an aircraft comes in to land at an airport.

We flew the RNAV/GPS A approach to runway 16.

A specific procedure used for approaching and landing at an airport.


cage

en-verb

cage (third-person singular simple present cages, present participle caging, simple past and past participle caged)

cages (present singular third-person)
caging (participle present)
caged (participle past)
caged (past)

From Middle English cage, from Old French cage, from Latin cavea. Doublet of cadge and cavea and related to jail.

To prevent damage to its gimbal mountings during extreme aerobatic maneuvers, the navball should be caged before the start of a display sequence.

(aviation) To immobilize an artificial horizon.


fix

→ French: fixe, fix

From Middle English fixen, borrowed from Old French *fixer (attested only as ficher, fichier; > English fitch), from fix (“fastened; fixed”), from Latin fīxus (“immovable; steady; stable; fixed”), from fīgō (“to drive in; stick; fasten”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeygʷ- (“to jab; stick; set”). Related to dig.

der

(aviation) A non-waypoint terrain feature used to make a determination of location.


hélicoptère

→ Danish: helikopter

desctree

→ English: helicopter
→ Amharic: ሄሊኮፕተር (helikoptär)
→ Cebuano: helikopter
→ Malay: helikopter
→ Tagalog: helikopter

→ Polish: helikopter

→ Romanian: elicopter

→ Serbo-Croatian: helikopter

→ Persian: هلیکوپتر (helikopter)

→ Turkish: helikopter

From Ancient Greek ἕλιξ (hélix, “spiral”) + πτερόν (pterón, “wing”).
Coined in 1861 by Gustave de Ponton d'Amécourt.


SOB

en-noun

SOB (countable and uncountable, plural SOBs)

(aviation, in the plural) Initialism of souls on board.


Hubschrauber

de-noun

Hubschrauber m (strong, genitive Hubschraubers, plural Hubschrauber)

Hubschraubers (genitive)
Hubschrauber (plural)
Hubschrauber (nominative singular)
Hubschrauber (definite nominative plural)
Hubschraubers (genitive singular)
Hubschrauber (definite genitive plural)
Hubschrauber (dative singular)
Hubschraubern (dative definite plural)
Hubschrauber (accusative singular)
Hubschrauber (accusative definite plural)

Compound of Hub (“lift”) + Schraube (“screw”) + -er.


Helikopter

Helikopter m (strong, genitive Helikopters, plural Helikopter)

Helikopters (genitive)
Helikopter (plural)
Helikopter (nominative singular)
Helikopter (definite nominative plural)
Helikopters (genitive singular)
Helikopter (definite genitive plural)
Helikopter (dative singular)
Helikoptern (dative definite plural)
Helikopter (accusative singular)
Helikopter (accusative definite plural)

Borrowed from English helicopter, from French hélicoptère, from Ancient Greek ἕλιξ (hélix, “spiral”) + πτερόν (pterón, “wing”).


ornithopter

/ˈɔː.nɪˌθɒp.tə/

/ˈɔɹ.nɪˌθɑp.tɚ/

From French ornithoptère, from Ancient Greek ὄρνιθ- (órnith-) + πτερόν (pterón, “wing”), equivalent to ornitho- + -pter.

An aircraft that generates lift through the flapping of its wings.


aviator

id-noun

aviator (plural aviator-aviator, first-person possessive aviatorku, second-person possessive aviatormu, third-person possessive aviatornya)

aviator-aviator (plural)
aviatorku (first-person possessive)
aviatormu (possessive second-person)
aviatornya (possessive third-person)

(aviation) aviator, pilot: A person who is in charge of the controls of an aircraft.


aviator

ro-noun

aviator m (plural aviatori, feminine equivalent aviatoare)

aviatori (plural)
equivalent aviatoare (feminine)
aviator (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
aviatorul (accusative definite nominative singular)
aviatori (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
aviatorii (accusative definite nominative plural)
aviator (indefinite singular)
aviatorului (definite singular)
aviatori (indefinite plural)
aviatorilor (definite plural)
aviatorule (singular vocative)
aviatorilor (plural vocative)


aviation

en-noun

aviation (usually uncountable, plural aviations)

Borrowed from French aviation, from Latin avis (“bird”), from Proto-Indo-European *awi- (“bird”).


aviation

→ Bulgarian: авиа́ция (aviácija)

→ Catalan: aviació

→ Italian: aviazione

→ Russian: авиа́ция (aviácija) (see there for further descendants)

→ Spanish: aviación
→ Tagalog: abyasyon

→ Ukrainian: авіа́ція (aviácija)

Coined by G. de la Landelle together with aviateur; from Latin avis (“bird”) + -ation.


ET

ET (countable and uncountable, plural ETs)

(travel, aviation) Initialism of electronic ticket.

(travel, aviation, reservation system) End transaction, end of transaction (with transaction meaning an amendment in the reservation system in this sense).


joystick

From joy + stick. First attested around 1910 (as joy-stick) as the control stick on an airplane. Its relation to the word joy is unclear.

unk

unclear

If games are your life, the choice of a joystick is desperately important.

A mechanical device consisting of a handgrip mounted on a base or pedestal and typically having one or more buttons, used to control an aircraft, computer, or other equipment.


taxi

→ Burmese: တက္ကစီ (takka.ci)

→ Cantonese: 的士 (dik¹ si⁶⁻²)

→ Mandarin: 的士 (dīshì, díshì)

→ Cantonese: 德士 (dak¹ si⁶⁻²)

→ Irish: tacsaí

desctree

→ Japanese: タクシー (takushī)
→ Hakka: 他庫西／他库西 (thà-khu-sí)

→ Korean: 택시 (taeksi)

→ Malay: teksi

→ Welsh: tacsi

→ Yiddish: טאַקסי (taksi)

→ Yoruba: takisí; tasín

Shortened from taximeter cab, taximeter (“automatic meter that records distance and fare”) from French taximètre, from German Taxameter (whence also English taxameter), coined from Medieval Latin taxa (“tax, charge”). More at tax, task.

During taxi, the flaps and slats are extended and the second engine (if not already running) is started.

Seat belts must be kept fastened during taxi, takeoff, turbulence, and landing.

(aviation) The movement of an aircraft across an airport's surface under its own power; a phase of aircraft operation involving this movement.


taxi

→ Polish: taxi

→ Persian: تاکسی (tâksi)

(by extension) helicopter or plane used for transport


maiden flight

The manufacturer's CEO was confident enough to ride as a passenger on the airship's maiden flight.

The first flight of an airplane or other airborne vehicle, usually used to test or demonstrate the functions of the systems.


IM

en-noun

IM (countable and uncountable, plural IMs)


driver

desctree

→ Japanese: ドライバー (doraibā)
→ Hakka: 多拉把 (tô-lai-pá, tô-lai-pà, tò-lái-pà)
→ Hokkien: 螺賴把／螺赖把 (lo͘-lài-bà)

→ Hokkien: 嚦峇／呖峇 (lē-bā)

→ Scottish Gaelic: draibhear

From Middle English drivere, dryvere, dryvare, equivalent to drive + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Drieuwer (“driver”), Dutch drijver (“driver”), German Low German Driever (“driver”), German Treiber (“driver”).

(aviation, slang) A pilot (person who flies aircraft).


המריא

he-verb

הִמְרִיא • (himrí) (hif'il construction)

הִמְרִיא (canonical)
himrí (romanization)
הִמְרֵאתִי (feminine first-person masculine past singular)
הִמְרֵאנוּ (feminine first-person masculine past plural)
הִמְרֵאתָ (masculine past second-person singular)
הִמְרֵאת (feminine past second-person singular)
הִמְרֵאתֶם (masculine past plural second-person)
הִמְרֵאתֶן (feminine past plural second-person)
הִמְרִיא (masculine past singular third-person)
הִמְרִיאָה (feminine past singular third-person)
הִמְרִיאוּ (feminine masculine past plural third-person)
מַמְרִיא (masculine present singular)
מַמְרִיאָה (feminine present singular)
מַמְרִיאִים (masculine plural present)
מַמְרִיאוֹת (feminine plural present)
אַמְרִיא (feminine first-person future masculine singular)
נַמְרִיא (feminine first-person future masculine plural)
תַּמְרִיא (future masculine second-person singular)
תַּמְרִיאִי (feminine future second-person singular)
תַּמְרִיאוּ (future masculine plural second-person)
תַּמְרֶאנָה (feminine future plural second-person)
יַמְרִיא (future masculine singular third-person)
תַּמְרִיא (feminine future singular third-person)
יַמְרִיאוּ (future masculine plural third-person)
תַּמְרֶאנָה (feminine future plural third-person)
הַמְרֵא (imperative masculine singular)
הַמְרִיאִי (feminine imperative singular)
הַמְרִיאוּ (imperative masculine plural)
הַמְרֶאנָה (feminine imperative plural)

כָּעֵת בַּמָּרוֹם תַּמְרִיא; תִּשְׂחַק לַסּוּס וּלְרֹכְבוֹ.

Tanach, Job [[s:he:T2739#לט_יח|39:18]], with translation of the New American Standard Bible:

“When she lifts herself on high, She laughs at the horse and his rider.

ka'ét bammaróm tamrí, tisḥáq lassús ulərochəvó.


section

From Middle English seccioun, from Old French section, from Latin sectiō (“cutting, cutting off, excision, amputation of diseased parts of the body, etc.”), from sectus, past participle of secāre (“to cut”). More at saw.

разрэ́з

surgery: incision or the act of making an incision

A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).

(aviation) A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight.


touchdown

en-noun

touchdown (countable and uncountable, plural touchdowns)

The passengers audibly relaxed at touchdown.

And I think it's gonna be a long, long time / 'Til touchdown brings me 'round again to find / I'm not the man they think I am at home / Oh, no, no, no[…]

1972 April 17, Elton John, Bernie Taupin, “Rocket Man”, in Honky Château, performed by Elton John:

(aviation) The moment when an aircraft or spacecraft makes first or final contact with the ground during a landing.


ala

Learned borrowing from Latin āla. Compare the inherited doublet á.

(aviation) wingman (support pilot in a squadron)


aeroport

aeroport (nominative singular)
aeroporty (nominative plural)
aeroportu (genitive singular)
aeroportów (genitive plural)
aeroportowi (dative singular)
aeroportom (dative plural)
aeroport (accusative singular)
aeroporty (accusative plural)
aeroportem (instrumental singular)
aeroportami (instrumental plural)
aeroporcie (locative singular)
aeroportach (locative plural)
aeroporcie (singular vocative)
aeroporty (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French aéroport. By surface analysis, aero- + port. First attested in 1927.


seat

From Middle English sete, from Old English sǣte, possibly from (or simply cognate with) Old Norse sæti (“seat”), both from Proto-Germanic *sētiją (“seat”), from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”); compare Old English set (“seat”).
Sense 2 (“location or site”) is probably derived from Old English sǣte (“house”), which is related to Old High German sāza (“sedan, seat, domicile”).
cognates
* Middle Dutch gesaete
* Old High German gisazi (modern German Gesäß)

cog

would you mind putting on your seat belt

Hey, fighter boy, our radar's putting out enough energy to launch your seat from this distance!

A piece of furniture made for sitting, such as a chair, stool, or bench; any improvised place for sitting.

(aviation, military, slang) An ejection seat.


aeroplan

aeroplanik (diminutive)
aeroplan (nominative singular)
aeroplany (nominative plural)
aeroplanu (genitive singular)
aeroplanów (genitive plural)
aeroplanowi (dative singular)
aeroplanom (dative plural)
aeroplan (accusative singular)
aeroplany (accusative plural)
aeroplanem (instrumental singular)
aeroplanami (instrumental plural)
aeroplanie (locative singular)
aeroplanach (locative plural)
aeroplanie (singular vocative)
aeroplany (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French aéroplane. By surface analysis, aero- + -plan. First attested in 1898.

ref

Samuel Orgelbrand (1898) S. Orgelbranda Encyklopedja powszechna z ilustracjami i mapami (in Polish)

lot aeroplanu

latać aeroplanem


aeroplan

aeroplane (plural)
aeroplan (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
aeroplanul (accusative definite nominative singular)
aeroplane (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
aeroplanele (accusative definite nominative plural)
aeroplan (indefinite singular)
aeroplanului (definite singular)
aeroplane (indefinite plural)
aeroplanelor (definite plural)
aeroplanule (singular vocative)
aeroplanelor (plural vocative)


aeroplan

sh-noun

ȁeroplān m (Cyrillic spelling а̏еропла̄н, relational adjective ȁeroplānskī)

ȁeroplān (canonical masculine)
а̏еропла̄н (Cyrillic)
ȁeroplānskī (adjective relational)


aeroplan

aeroplanlar (plural)
aeroplan (nominative singular)
aeroplanlar (nominative plural)
aeroplanning (genitive singular)
aeroplanlarning (genitive plural)
aeroplanga (dative singular)
aeroplanlarga (dative plural)
aeroplanni (accusative definite singular)
aeroplanlarni (accusative definite plural)
aeroplanda (locative singular)
aeroplanlarda (locative plural)
aeroplandan (ablative singular)
aeroplanlardan (ablative plural)
aeroplandek (singular)
aeroplanlardek (plural)
aeroplanim (nominative possessive singular)
aeroplanlarim (nominative plural possessive)
aeroplanimning (genitive possessive singular)
aeroplanlarimning (genitive plural possessive)
aeroplanimga (dative possessive singular)
aeroplanlarimga (dative plural possessive)
aeroplanimni (accusative definite possessive singular)
aeroplanlarimni (accusative definite plural possessive)
aeroplanimda (locative possessive singular)
aeroplanlarimda (locative plural possessive)
aeroplanimdan (ablative possessive singular)
aeroplanlarimdan (ablative plural possessive)
aeroplanimdek (possessive singular)
aeroplanlarimdek (plural possessive)
aeroplaning (nominative possessive singular)
aeroplanlaring (nominative plural possessive)
aeroplaningning (genitive possessive singular)
aeroplanlaringning (genitive plural possessive)
aeroplaningga (dative possessive singular)
aeroplanlaringga (dative plural possessive)
aeroplaningni (accusative definite possessive singular)
aeroplanlaringni (accusative definite plural possessive)
aeroplaningda (locative possessive singular)
aeroplanlaringda (locative plural possessive)
aeroplaningdan (ablative possessive singular)
aeroplanlaringdan (ablative plural possessive)
aeroplaningdek (possessive singular)
aeroplanlaringdek (plural possessive)
aeroplani (nominative possessive singular)
aeroplanlari (nominative plural possessive)
aeroplanining (genitive possessive singular)
aeroplanlarining (genitive plural possessive)
aeroplaniga (dative possessive singular)
aeroplanlariga (dative plural possessive)
aeroplanini (accusative definite possessive singular)
aeroplanlarini (accusative definite plural possessive)
aeroplanida (locative possessive singular)
aeroplanlarida (locative plural possessive)
aeroplanidan (ablative possessive singular)
aeroplanlaridan (ablative plural possessive)
aeroplanidek (possessive singular)
aeroplanlaridek (plural possessive)
aeroplanimiz (nominative possessive singular)
aeroplanlarimiz (nominative plural possessive)
aeroplanimizning (genitive possessive singular)
aeroplanlarimizning (genitive plural possessive)
aeroplanimizga (dative possessive singular)
aeroplanlarimizga (dative plural possessive)
aeroplanimizni (accusative definite possessive singular)
aeroplanlarimizni (accusative definite plural possessive)
aeroplanimizda (locative possessive singular)
aeroplanlarimizda (locative plural possessive)
aeroplanimizdan (ablative possessive singular)
aeroplanlarimizdan (ablative plural possessive)
aeroplanimizdek (possessive singular)
aeroplanlarimizdek (plural possessive)
aeroplaningiz (nominative possessive singular)
aeroplanlaringiz (nominative plural possessive)
aeroplaningizning (genitive possessive singular)
aeroplanlaringizning (genitive plural possessive)
aeroplaningizga (dative possessive singular)
aeroplanlaringizga (dative plural possessive)
aeroplaningizni (accusative definite possessive singular)
aeroplanlaringizni (accusative definite plural possessive)
aeroplaningizda (locative possessive singular)
aeroplanlaringizda (locative plural possessive)
aeroplaningizdan (ablative possessive singular)
aeroplanlaringizdan (ablative plural possessive)
aeroplaningizdek (possessive singular)
aeroplanlaringizdek (plural possessive)
aeroplanidek (possessive)
aeroplanlaridek (possessive)

Borrowed from Russian аэропла́н (aeroplán), probably from English aeroplane or French aéroplane.


foil

en-noun

foil (countable and uncountable, plural foils)

From Middle English foyle, from Middle French fueille, from Old French fueille (“plant leaf”), from Late Latin folia, the plural of folium, mistaken as a singular feminine.
The literary sense is from the practice of backing a gem with metal foil to make it shine more brilliantly.
Doublet of folio and folium, distantly also with phyllo and phyllon.

(aerodynamics, aviation) Clipping of aerofoil/airfoil.


slot

From Middle English slot, from Old French esclot, likely from Old Norse slóð (“track”). As a gambling machine, via clipping of slot machine. Compare sleuth. The scheduling (calendar) sense is by a metaphor whereby the time span is equated with the segment of a page or part of a device that represents it.

(aviation) The allocated time for an aircraft's departure or arrival at an airport's runway.

slotti

(aviation) In a flying display, the fourth position; after the leader and two wingmen.


crab

crab (countable and uncountable, plural crabs)

From Middle English crabbe, from Old English crabba (“crab; crayfish; cancer”), from Proto-West Germanic *krabbō, from Proto-Germanic *krabbô, from *krabbōną (“to creep, crawl”), from Proto-Indo-European *grobʰeh₂yéti (“scratch, claw at”), a metathesised o-grade of *gerbʰ-. More at carve.
Cognates
See also Dutch krab, Low German Krabb, Danish krabbe, Swedish krabba.
Further cognates with frequentative-infix are Saterland Frisian krabbelje (“to creep, crawl”), Dutch krabbelen (“to scratch”) and German krabbeln (“to crawl”). Possibly related to English creep and Swedish krypa (“to creep, crawl”) etc.

cog

The pilot had to hold fifteen degrees of crab during the approach to keep her plane from getting blown off the localizer course.

(uncountable, aviation) The angle by which an aircraft's nose is pointed upwind of its groundtrack to compensate for crosswinds during an approach to landing; its crab angle.


crab

en-verb

crab (third-person singular simple present crabs, present participle crabbing, simple past and past participle crabbed)

crabs (present singular third-person)
crabbing (participle present)
crabbed (participle past)
crabbed (past)

(transitive, aviation) To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain a straight-line course.


strake

From Middle English strake, from Old English *straca (> Anglo-Latin straca), from Proto-West Germanic *strakō, from Proto-Germanic *strakaz (“straight”). Akin to Old English streċċan (“to make straight, stretch”).

cog

(aviation) A type of aerodynamic surface mounted on an aircraft fuselage to fine-tune the airflow.


smash

en-noun

smash (countable and uncountable, plural smashes)

→ Czech: smeč

→ Serbo-Croatian: smeč

→ Turkish: smaç

From a blend of smack + mash. Compare Swedish smask (“to smack with the lips”), dialectal Swedish smaska (“to smack, kiss”), Danish smaske (“to smack with the lips”), Low German smaksen (“to smack with the lips, kiss”).

cog

Then, for Horner's red team, it became just a matter of gaining sufficient smash (airspeed) to convert on them and film them with gun cameras.

2008, Tom Clancy, Chuck Horner, Every Man A Tiger:

(aviation, informal) Airspeed; dynamic pressure.


airfoil

A structure shaped to produce lift when moving in air.


TCAS

en-noun

TCAS (usually uncountable, plural TCASs)

(aviation) Initialism of traffic (alert and) collision avoidance system, a system for warning pilots of impending mid-air collisions and telling them what (if any) evasive action to take.


BOM

(international standards, aviation) IATA airport code for Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, which serves Mumbai, India.


ACAS

(aviation) Acronym of airborne collision avoidance system.


roundel

From Middle English roundel, rundel, rondel, from Old French rondel (“something round and flat”), a diminutive of rond (“round”). More at round.

der

(aviation) A circular insignia painted on an aircraft to identify its nationality or service.

圓標

aviation: a circular insignia painted on an aircraft to identify its nationality or service


kite

The noun is from Middle English kyte, kīte, kete (“a kite endemic to Europe, especially the red kite (Milvus milvus)”), from Old English cȳta (“kite; bittern”), from Proto-West Germanic *kūtijō, diminutive of Proto-Germanic *kūts (“bird of prey”), from Proto-Indo-European *gewH-d- (“to cry, screech”). The English word is cognate with Scots kyt, kyte (“kite; bird of prey”), Middle High German kiuzelīn, kützlīn (“owling”) (modern German Kauz (“owl”)). Possibly a doublet of coot.
Sense 3 (“lightweight toy”) is from the fact that it hovers in the air like the bird.
The verb is derived from the noun.

leko

military aviation, slang: aircraft — see also aircraft

leija

sailing, slang: spinnaker — see also spinnaker

And did you know the Chiefie said that one of our kites went in the drink last night?

This time, the engine roared and the kite rocked against the brakes then sluggishly rolled down the strip.

2004, Harry Foxley, Marking Time: A Soldier’s Story, Victoria, B.C., Crewe, East Cheshire: Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 133:

(military aviation, slang) An aeroplane or aircraft.


人防

/ʐən³⁵ fɑŋ³⁵/

/ʐən³⁵ fɑŋ³⁵/

Short for 人民防空 (rénmín fángkōng, “civil air defense”).


bounce

en-verb

bounce (third-person singular simple present bounces, present participle bouncing, simple past and past participle bounced)

bounces (present singular third-person)
bouncing (participle present)
bounced (participle past)
bounced (past)

From Middle English bounsen, bunsen (“to beat, thump”), cognate with Scots bunce, bonce (“to bounce”). Of uncertain origin. Perhaps imitative, related to bump, or related to Middle English bonchen (“to pound, beat”) and Dutch bonken (“to bump”).
Compare Saterland Frisian bumzje (“to pound, bang, bounce”), West Frisian bûnzje (“to throb, bounce, pulsate”), Dutch bonzen (“to thump, knock, throb, bounce”), German Low German bunsen, bumsen (“to beat, bounce”), German bumsen (“to thud, bang, pound”).

unc

uncertain

onomatopoeic

imitative

cog

The student pilot bounced several times during his landing.

(intransitive, aviation) To land hard and lift off again due to excess momentum.


roll

en-verb

roll (third-person singular simple present rolls, present participle rolling, simple past and past participle rolled)

rolls (present singular third-person)
rolling (participle present)
rolled (participle past)
rolled (past)

From Middle English rollen, partly from Old French roller, roler, röeler, röoler, from Medieval Latin rotulāre (“to roll; to revolve”), from Latin rotula (“a little wheel”), diminutive of rota (“a wheel”); partly from Anglo-Latin rollāre, from the same ultimate source.

rol

to cause something to revolve by turning over and over

rol

to move, or cause to be moved, upon rollers or small wheels

(intransitive, aviation, nautical, of an aircraft or vessel) To rotate about the fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down. Compare pitch.


roll

(nautical, aviation) The oscillating movement of a nautical vessel as it rotates from side to side, about its fore-and-aft axis, causing its sides to go up and down, as distinguished from the alternate rise and fall of bow and stern called pitching; or the equivalent in an aircraft.

клатене

oscillating movement of a vessel from side to side


pylon

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πυλών (pulṓn, “gateway”).

стълб

a tower like structure used to support high voltage electricity cables

(aviation) A structure used to mount engines, missiles etc., to the underside of an aircraft wing or fuselage.

kiinnike

aviation: a structure used to mount engines, missiles etc., to the underside of an aircraft wing or fuselage

(aviation, historical) A starting derrick for an aeroplane.

(aviation, historical) A post, tower, etc. as on an aerodrome, or flying ground, serving to bound or mark a prescribed course of flight.


pylon

pylon (nominative singular)
pylony (nominative plural)
pylonu (genitive singular)
pylonów (genitive plural)
pylonowi (dative singular)
pylonom (dative plural)
pylon (accusative singular)
pylony (accusative plural)
pylonem (instrumental singular)
pylonami (instrumental plural)
pylonie (locative singular)
pylonach (locative plural)
pylonie (singular vocative)
pylony (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek πυλών (pulṓn).

(aviation) pylon (structural element fixed under the wing of an aircraft and holding the engine attached to it)


blimp

Origin not entirely certain. However, most historians believe that it is onomatopoeia for the sound a blimp makes when thumped. Although there is some disagreement among historians, credit for coining the term is usually given to Lt. A.D. Cunningham of the British Royal Navy in 1915.
There is an often repeated, but false, alternative explanation for the term. The erroneous story is that at some time in the early 20th century, the United States military had two classes for airships: Type A-rigid and Type B-limp, hence “blimp”. In fact, A. D. Topping reports on the “Etymology of ‘Blimp’”, in the AAHS Journal, Winter 1963, that:
: “there was no American ‘A-class’ of airships as such—all military aircraft, heavier or lighter-than-air were designated with ‘A’ until the appearance of B-class airships in May 1917. There was an American B airship—but there seems to be no record of any official designation of non-rigids as ‘limp’. Further, according to the Oxford Dictionary, the first appearance of the word in print was in 1916, in England, a year before the first B-class airship.”
J.R.R. Tolkien speculated that the word was a portmanteau word deriving from 'blister' and 'lump': 'the vowel i not u was chosen because of its diminutive significance -- typical of war humour'

onom

onomatopoeia

2004 February 16&23, The New Yorker

(aviation) An airship constructed with a non-rigid lifting agent container.


blabbermouth

Two handlines are capable of 240 gpm and an undertruck "blabbermouth" nozzle can sweep the ground ahead at 240 gpm.

1964, Civic Administration, volume 16, page 9:

The monitor is fitted with a blabbermouth (variable nozzle) to enable jet-spray patterns to be obtained at will.

A manually operated monitor is provided complete with blabbermouth to deliver foam solution at a rate of 2(KX) lures a minute at 10-5 bar, to a maximum jet range of 46 metres […]

1983, David F. Rider, Jane's Airport Equipment, page 210:

(aviation) A kind of foam-dispensing nozzle used in firefighting at airports.


speedball

en-noun

speedball (countable and uncountable, plural speedballs)

(military, aviation) An improvised adhoc airdrop resupply pack, composed of ammo, food and water, and other supplies, stuffed into a body bag or duffle bag.


airport

→ German: Airport m

→ Irish: aerfort (calque)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-airport.wav

In the Indianapolis airport, for example, travelers spend an average of 94 minutes in the terminal and presecurity areas before boarding their flights.

1999, Marc J. Dollinger, Entrepreneurship: strategies and resources:

Because of this, and contrary to popular belief, British airports primarily act as giant wealth extractors, transporting our richest citizens out of the country as often as possible to take their money overseas.

23 June 2018, “Heathrow expansion to mainly benefit wealthy frequent fliers, research finds”, in The Independent:

An airfield (an area designated for the takeoff and landing of aircraft), including one or more runways and (for commercial airports) one or more passenger terminals.


catapult

From Middle French catapulte, from Latin catapulta, from Ancient Greek καταπέλτης (katapéltēs), from κατά (katá, “downwards, into, against”) + πάλλω (pállō, “I poise or sway a missile before it is thrown”). Doublet of catapulta.

A mechanical aid on aircraft carriers designed to help airplanes take off from the flight deck.

An instance of firing a missile from a catapult.


catapult

en-verb

catapult (third-person singular simple present catapults, present participle catapulting, simple past and past participle catapulted)

catapults (present singular third-person)
catapulting (participle present)
catapulted (participle past)
catapulted (past)

(transitive) To fire a missile from a catapult.

(transitive) To fire or launch something, as if from a catapult.

She catapulted to the national scene following her selection by the candidate.

(intransitive) To have one's status increased rapidly.


CAVU

(aviation) Acronym of ceiling and visibility unrestricted, indicating a ceiling of at least 10,000 feet and visibility of at least 10 miles: ideal flying conditions.


disk

disk (third-person singular simple present disks, present participle disking, simple past and past participle disked)

disks (present singular third-person)
disking (participle present)
disked (participle past)
disked (past)

From Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “a circular plate suited for hurling”), from δικέω (dikéō, “to hurl, to launch”). Doublet of dais, desk, disc, discus, dish, and diskos.

doublet

(aviation, of an aircraft's propeller) To move towards, or operate at, zero blade pitch, orienting the propeller blades face-on to the oncoming airstream and maximizing the drag generated by the propeller.


reverse

en-verb

reverse (third-person singular simple present reverses, present participle reversing, simple past and past participle reversed)

reverses (present singular third-person)
reversing (participle present)
reversed (participle past)
reversed (past)

unreverse

antonym(s) of “to turn something in the opposite direction”

From Middle English reversen, from Anglo-Norman reverser, Middle French reverser, and their source, Latin reversō, from re- + versō.

реверсирам

to cause a mechanism or vehicle to operate or move in the opposite directions

tolat

rail transport, of points: to move from the normal position to the reverse position

(aviation, transitive) To engage reverse thrust on (an engine).


chopper

chopper (third-person singular simple present choppers, present participle choppering, simple past and past participle choppered)

choppers (present singular third-person)
choppering (participle present)
choppered (participle past)
choppered (past)

From the onomatopoeia for the "chop-chop" sound emitted by the main rotor blades of the Bell 47 'OH-13 Sioux' "Angel of Mercy" helicopter, encountered by troops during the Korean War.

They lifted Catholics. Civil Rights guys, mostly. Low-level nationalists. Choppered them off to some interrogation centre outside Belfast.

2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 288:

(informal) To travel or transport by helicopter.


canopy

→ French: canopée (calque)

→ Spanish: canopy

From Middle English canapy, canepie, canapee, canape, canope, from Old French conopé, Medieval Latin canapeum, canopeum, from Latin cōnōpēum (“mosquito net, canopy”), from Ancient Greek κωνωπεῖον (kōnōpeîon, “mosquito net”), from Ancient Greek κώνωψ (kṓnōps, “mosquito”), of uncertain origin. More at Ancient Greek κώνωψ (kṓnōps). Doublet of canapé and conopeum.

der

In an airplane, the transparent cockpit cover.

In a parachute, the cloth that fills with air and thus limits the falling speed.


plug

→ Gulf Arabic: بلاك (blāk)

→ Burmese: ပလတ် (pa.lat)

→ Japanese: プラグ (puragu)

From Dutch plug, from Middle Dutch plugge (“peg, plug”), from Old Dutch *pluggi, from Proto-West Germanic *plugi. Further origin unknown. Possibly from Proto-Germanic *plugjaz, but the word seems originally restricted to northern continental West Germanic. Perhaps ultimately from the same source as Dutch plag (“cut-out sod”), itself considered to be from a substrate.
Compare German Low German Plüg, Norwegian plug (“peg, wedge”, probably borrowed from Middle Low German), German Pflock (“peg”, restricted to Central German and phonetically divergent). Possibly akin to Lithuanian plúkti (“to strike, hew”).

unk

unknown

cog

Add front and aft closures to the fuselage midsection. Addition or subtraction of fuselage plugs, to a maximum of five rows, conveniently distributed on each side of wing, is possible.

2010, Ajoy Kumar Kundu, Aircraft Design, page 165:

(aviation) A standard, modular fuselage component that can be added or removed.


aviate

en-verb

aviate (third-person singular simple present aviates, present participle aviating, simple past and past participle aviated)

aviates (present singular third-person)
aviating (participle present)
aviated (participle past)
aviated (past)


camber

From Old French cambre (“bent”), from Latin camurum, from camur (“arched”).


decay

decay (third-person singular simple present decays, present participle decaying, simple past and past participle decayed)

decays (present singular third-person)
decaying (participle present)
decayed (participle past)
decayed (past)

From Middle English decayen, dekeyen (“to decrease, diminish”), from Anglo-Norman decaeir (“to fall away, decay, decline”), from Vulgar Latin *dēcadere, etymologically restored form of Latin dēcidere (“to fall away, fail, sink, perish”), from de (“down”) + cadere (“to fall”). Compare decadent and decadence.

der

(intransitive, aviation) Loss of airspeed due to drag.


bunt

en-noun

bunt (countable and uncountable, plural bunts)

Unknown. Perhaps a nasalised variant of butt.

(aviation) The second half of an outside loop, from level flight to inverted flight.

(by extension) Any large pilot-commanded pitch-down motion of an aircraft, often producing negative G-forces and resulting in a large negative change in flightpath angle.


bunt

en-verb

bunt (third-person singular simple present bunts, present participle bunting, simple past and past participle bunted)

bunts (present singular third-person)
bunting (participle present)
bunted (participle past)
bunted (past)

We had heard that there was an elite group of three or four pilots in Jodhpur called the “Bunt Club”, who had successfully bunted their aircraft—that is, carried out the second half of an outside loop. In the Bunt, you pushed the nose down, past the vertical and still further, until you were in horizontal inverted flight, and came out on the other side and rolled it out.

(intransitive, aviation) To perform (the second half of) an outside loop.


blush

blush (third-person singular simple present blushes, present participle blushing, simple past and past participle blushed)

blushes (present singular third-person)
blushing (participle present)
blushed (participle past)
blushed (past)

From Middle English blusshen, bluschen, blusschen, blisshen, from Old English blysċan (“to be red; shine”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *blaskijaną, from *blasǭ (“burning candle; torch”) or alternatively from Proto-Germanic *bluskijaną, from *blusjǭ (“torch”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-.
Cognate with Middle Low German blöschen (“to blush”). Compare also Old English blysian (“to burn; blaze”), Dutch blozen (“to blush”), Danish blusse (“to blush”), Old Norse blys (“torch”), Danish blus (“blaze”).

bloos

to redden or pinken in the face from shame, shyness, excitement, or embarrassment

Blushing is caused by doping under high relative humidity conditions.

1966, Aviation Structural Mechanic S 3 & 2, United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel, page 219:

Why is retarder used in dope when the dope is being sprayed in humid conditions? The retarder slows the drying of the dope and keeps it from blushing.

1999, Dale Crane, Fast-Track Test Guides for Aviation Maintenance: Airframe, page 147:

(aviation, intransitive) Of dope or varnish: to develop an undesirable white precipitate on the surface, due to being applied in humid conditions.


climb

it-noun

climb m (usually invariable, plural climbs)

Pseudo-anglicism; transferred sense from English climb.

rate-of-climb indicator
rate-of-climb indicator

(aviation) variometer, rate-of-climb indicator


balloon

→ Assamese: বেলুন (belun)

→ Bengali: বেলুন (belun)

→ Japanese: バルーン (barūn)

→ Maori: parūnu

→ Welsh: balŵn

→ Zulu: ibhaloni

1570, "a game played with a large, inflated leather ball" (possibly via Middle French ballon) from Italian pallone (“large ball”) from palla (“ball”), from Lombardic *palla. The Northern Italian form, balla (“ball-shaped bundle”), today a doublet, likely derived from Old French balle, from Frankish *balla (“ball”), and may have influenced the spelling of this word. Both Germanic words are from Proto-Germanic *ballô (“ball”), *balluz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰoln- (“bubble”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to blow, swell, inflate”). Akin to Old High German ballo, bal (“ball”), (German Ballen (“bale”); Ball "ball"). Doublet of ballon. More at ball.

der

We immediately threw out all the little things we had with us, ſuch as biſcuits, apples, &c. and after that one of our oars or wings; but ſtill deſcending, we caſt away the other wing, and then the governail ; having likewiſe had the precaution, for fear of accidents, while the Balloon was filling, partly to looſen and make it go eaſy, I now ſucceeded in attempting to reach without the Car, and unſcrewing the moulinet, with all its apparatus; I likewiſe caſt that into the ſea.

1786, John Jeffries, Jean-Pierre Blanchard, A narrative of the two aerial Voyages of Dr. J. with Mons. Blanchard: with meteorological observations and remarks., page 45:

Such an object designed to transport people or equipment through the air.

balonë

inflatable object to transport people through the air


balloon

en-verb

balloon (third-person singular simple present balloons, present participle ballooning, simple past and past participle ballooned)

balloons (present singular third-person)
ballooning (participle present)
ballooned (participle past)
ballooned (past)

The plane ballooned into the air about 20 feet, banging down again for another good-sized hop.

1961, Flying Magazine, volume 69, number 3, page 86:

(aviation) Of an aircraft: to plunge alternately up and down.


ingest

ingest (third-person singular simple present ingests, present participle ingesting, simple past and past participle ingested)

ingests (present singular third-person)
ingesting (participle present)
ingested (participle past)
ingested (past)

The plane's engine ingested a large bird and flamed out.

(aviation, transitive, by extension, of a jet engine) To cause (an undesired object or fluid) to enter the engine, generally via the intake.


posit

Borrowed from Latin positus, perfect participle of pōnō (“put, place”). Sense 3 (type of number format) was coined by American computer scientist and businessman John Gustafson in 2017.


rotor

From an irregular shortening of rotator. Doublet of rota and ruote.

(aviation) The wing of a helicopter or other rotary-wing aircraft.


rotor

rotor (nominative singular)
rotory (nominative plural)
rotora (genitive singular)
rotorów (genitive plural)
rotorowi (dative singular)
rotorom (dative plural)
rotor (accusative singular)
rotory (accusative plural)
rotorem (instrumental singular)
rotorami (instrumental plural)
rotorze (locative singular)
rotorach (locative plural)
rotorze (singular vocative)
rotory (plural vocative)

rotor (propeller on a rotorcraft that provides lift)


rotor

head

rotor (definite accusative rotoru, plural rotorlar)

rotoru (accusative definite)
rotorlar (plural)
rotor (nominative singular)
rotorlar (nominative plural)
rotoru (accusative definite singular)
rotorları (accusative definite plural)
rotora (dative singular)
rotorlara (dative plural)
rotorda (locative singular)
rotorlarda (locative plural)
rotordan (ablative singular)
rotorlardan (ablative plural)
rotorun (genitive singular)
rotorların (genitive plural)
rotorum (first-person nominative singular)
rotorlarım (first-person nominative singular)
rotorun (nominative second-person singular)
rotorların (nominative second-person singular)
rotoru (nominative singular third-person)
rotorları (nominative singular third-person)
rotorumuz (first-person nominative plural)
rotorlarımız (first-person nominative plural)
rotorunuz (nominative plural second-person)
rotorlarınız (nominative plural second-person)
rotorları (nominative plural third-person)
rotorumu (accusative definite first-person singular)
rotorlarımı (accusative definite first-person singular)
rotorunu (accusative definite second-person singular)
rotorlarını (accusative definite second-person singular)
rotorunu (accusative definite singular third-person)
rotorlarını (accusative definite singular third-person)
rotorumuzu (accusative definite first-person plural)
rotorlarımızı (accusative definite first-person plural)
rotorunuzu (accusative definite plural second-person)
rotorlarınızı (accusative definite plural second-person)
rotorlarını (accusative definite plural third-person)
rotoruma (dative first-person singular)
rotorlarıma (dative first-person singular)
rotoruna (dative second-person singular)
rotorlarına (dative second-person singular)
rotoruna (dative singular third-person)
rotorlarına (dative singular third-person)
rotorumuza (dative first-person plural)
rotorlarımıza (dative first-person plural)
rotorunuza (dative plural second-person)
rotorlarınıza (dative plural second-person)
rotorlarına (dative plural third-person)
rotorumda (first-person locative singular)
rotorlarımda (first-person locative singular)
rotorunda (locative second-person singular)
rotorlarında (locative second-person singular)
rotorunda (locative singular third-person)
rotorlarında (locative singular third-person)
rotorumuzda (first-person locative plural)
rotorlarımızda (first-person locative plural)
rotorunuzda (locative plural second-person)
rotorlarınızda (locative plural second-person)
rotorlarında (locative plural third-person)
rotorumdan (ablative first-person singular)
rotorlarımdan (ablative first-person singular)
rotorundan (ablative second-person singular)
rotorlarından (ablative second-person singular)
rotorundan (ablative singular third-person)
rotorlarından (ablative singular third-person)
rotorumuzdan (ablative first-person plural)
rotorlarımızdan (ablative first-person plural)
rotorunuzdan (ablative plural second-person)
rotorlarınızdan (ablative plural second-person)
rotorlarından (ablative plural third-person)
rotorumun (first-person genitive singular)
rotorlarımın (first-person genitive singular)
rotorunun (genitive second-person singular)
rotorlarının (genitive second-person singular)
rotorunun (genitive singular third-person)
rotorlarının (genitive singular third-person)
rotorumuzun (first-person genitive plural)
rotorlarımızın (first-person genitive plural)
rotorunuzun (genitive plural second-person)
rotorlarınızın (genitive plural second-person)
rotorlarının (genitive plural third-person)


mig

migowy (adjective)
mig (nominative singular)
migi (nominative plural)
miga (genitive singular)
migów (genitive plural)
migowi (dative singular)
migom (dative plural)
miga (accusative singular)
migi (accusative plural)
migiem (instrumental singular)
migami (instrumental plural)
migu (locative singular)
migach (locative plural)
migu (singular vocative)
migi (plural vocative)

(aviation) MiG (any of a series of Soviet and Russian fighter aircraft)


slat

Old French esclat. Doublet of slate and éclat.

(aviation) A control surface that extends forwards and downwards from the leading edge of a wing, leaving a gap between it and the leading edge, in order to modify the airflow around the wing so as to allow flight at a higher angle of attack without stalling, lowering the aircraft's stall speed.

etureunasolakko

aeronautical: moveable control surface at the leading edge of a wing


deviation

en-noun

deviation (countable and uncountable, plural deviations)

From Middle French deviation, from Medieval Latin deviatio. Morphologically deviate + -ion.

The flightcrew observed en route thunderstorms both visually and on the airplane's weather radar, so they requested and received clearance for a deviation to the left of course from the HNL Combined Center Radar Approach Control (CERAP).

1992 March 18, National Transportation Safety Board, “1.1 History of the Flight”, in Aircraft Accident Report: Explosive Decompression - Loss of Cargo Door in Flight, United Airlines Flight 811, Boeing 747-122, N4713U, Honolulu, Hawaii, February 24, 1989, page 2:

(aviation) A detour to one side of the originally-planned flightpath (for instance, to avoid weather); the act of making such a detour.


freighter

(aviation, by extension) An aircraft used mainly to carry freight; a cargo aircraft or cargo plane.


disc

en-verb

disc (third-person singular simple present discs, present participle discing, simple past and past participle disced)

discs (present singular third-person)
discing (participle present)
disced (participle past)
disced (past)

From French disque, from Latin discus, from Ancient Greek δίσκος (dískos, “disk, quoit, platter”). Doublet of dais, desk, discus, dish, disk, and diskos.

doublet

In the air, the asymmetric drag generated by a discing propeller can result in loss of control of the airplane.

(aviation, of a propeller) To move towards, or operate at, zero blade pitch, orienting the propeller blades face-on to the oncoming airflow and maximising the drag generated by the propeller.


buzz

en-verb

buzz (third-person singular simple present buzzes, present participle buzzing, simple past and past participle buzzed)

buzzes (present singular third-person)
buzzing (participle present)
buzzed (participle past)
buzzed (past)

From Middle English *bussen, of onomatopoeic origin. Compare Middle English bunning (“buzzing”), Middle English hossing (“buzzing”), Middle English bissen (“to hush”).

zukat

to make a low, continuous, humming or sibilant sound

[…] an asteroid a mere 15-20 metres across exploded with the force of a medium-sized atom bomb over Chelyabinsk, in Russia, and another, much larger one buzzed Earth a few hours later.

2013, The Economist, Stopping asteroid strikes: Defenders of the Earth:

(aviation) To fly at high speed and at a very low altitude over a specified area, as to make a surprise pass.

rynnäköidä

aviation: to fly at high speed and at a low altitude


flap

From Middle English flap, flappe (“a slap; blow; buffet; fly-flap; something flexible or loose; flap”), related to Saterland Frisian Flappert (“wing, flipper”), Middle Dutch flabbe (“a blow; slap on the face; fly-flap; flap”) (modern Dutch flap (“flap”)), Middle Low German flabbe, vlabbe, flebbe, from the verb (see below). Related also to English flab and flabby.

cog

(aviation) A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane, used to increase lift and drag.


deck

From Middle English dekke, borrowed from Middle Dutch dec (“roof, covering”), from Middle Dutch decken, from Old Dutch thecken, from Proto-West Germanic *þakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *þakjaną. Formed the same: German Decke (“covering, blanket”). Doublet of thatch and thack.

rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic

shuffle the chairs on the deck of the Titanic

(aviation) A main aeroplane surface, especially of a biplane or multiplane.