abeam

en-adv

abeam (comparative more abeam, superlative most abeam)

more abeam (comparative)
most abeam (superlative)

From a- (“in the direction of”) + beam (“keel”).

prefix

We were heading S.S.W., and had a steady breeze abeam and a quiet sea.

1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, “'”, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC, part II (The Sea Cook), page 83:

[…] waves striking the ship abeam pushed her always south of their new course, and rolled her, and filled her with water so that bailing must be ceaseless […]

1968, Ursula K. LeGuin, chapter 2, in A Wizard of Earthsea, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, published 2012, page 36:

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles

Oxford University Press
w:Oxford University Press

(nautical, aircraft) On the beam; at a right angle to the centerline or keel of a vessel or aircraft; being at a bearing approximately 090 Degrees or 270 Degrees relative.

otstrani, perpendikuljarno na kila na koraba

отстрани, перпендикулярно на кила на кораба

(nautical, aircraft) Alongside or abreast; opposite the center of the side of the ship or aircraft.


abeam

The island was directly abeam of us.

The sound shifted its place markedly, but without coming nearer. It even grew a little more distant right abeam of the lighter, and then ceased again.

1904, Joseph Conrad, chapter 8, in Nostromo, New York: Harper, page 311:

The attack on the abeam ship, Louisville, killed Commander Cruiser Division Four […]

2005, William Thomas Generous, Sweet Pea at War: A History of USS Portland, →ISBN, page 178:


FAC

Forward Air Control
w:Forward Air Control

(military, aviation) Initialism of Forward Air Control.


FAC

(Canada, military, aviation) Abbreviation of Force aérienne du Canada: CAF (“Canadian Air Force”)


FAC

(military, aviation) Abbreviation of Fuerza Aérea Colombiana: the Colombian Air Force


AD

en-noun

AD (countable and uncountable, plural ADs)

airworthiness directive
airworthiness directive#English

(aviation) Initialism of airworthiness directive.


NASA

NASA was often accused of talking over the public's head.

2001, Dan Brown, Deception Point, Pocket Books, →ISBN:

Researchers at NASA have taken an interest in 'mycotecture' and its potential role in growing structures on the Moon.

2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 215:

National Aeronautics and Space Administration#English

Acronym of National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

米航空宇宙局

べいこうくううちゅうきょく

アメリカ航空宇宙局

あめりかこうくううちゅうきょく

Pentadbiran Aeronautik dan Angkasa Lepas Kebangsaan Amerika

Asociația Americană de Aeronautică și Spațiu


AA

AA (countable and uncountable, plural AAs)

absolute altitude
absolute altitude#English

(aviation) Initialism of absolute altitude.


AA

en:Alcoholics Anonymous
en:Anna's Archive
en:The AA

Alas, I fear, Netflix will soon break my heart. And it's an American icon that is warning me: American Airlines (AA). ¶ You see, middlemen are dying. Sabre, the former AA subsidiary that is now an independent global distribution system (GDS) supplying travel agencies and online travel agencies with ticket and pricing information, recently announced it was raising the rates it charges on AA tickets.

2012, Kaihan Krippendorff, “Today's Business Revolution”, in Outthink the Competition: How a New Generation of Strategists Sees Options Others Ignore, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 21:

(aviation) Initialism of American Airlines: a major American airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas.

American Airlines

Aerolíneas Argentinas
w:Aerolíneas Argentinas

(aviation) Initialism of Aerolíneas Argentinas.

(aviation) Initialism of Ansett Australia or Ansett Airways.


AA

Alternative forms: a/a, A-A, A/A

(military, aviation) Initialism of anti-aircraft or anti-air.

(military, aviation) Initialism of air-to-air.


HIV

hydraulic isolation valve
hydraulic isolation valve#English

(aviation) Initialism of hydraulic isolation valve.


port

port (countable and uncountable, plural ports)

From Old English port, borrowed from Latin portus (“port, harbour”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”) (and thus a distant doublet of ford). The directional sense, attested since at least the 1500s, derives from ancient vessels with the steering oar on the right (see etymology of starboard), which therefore had to moor with their left sides facing the dock or wharf. Doublet of fjard, fjord, firth, ford, and Portus.

doublet

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

(nautical, aviation, uncountable) The left-hand side of a vessel, including aircraft, when one is facing the front. Used to unambiguously refer to directions relative to the vessel structure, rather than to a person or object on board.


radar

head

radar (definite accusative radarı, plural radarlar)

radarı (accusative definite)
radarlar (plural)
radar (nominative singular)
radarlar (nominative plural)
radarı (accusative definite singular)
radarları (accusative definite plural)
radara (dative singular)
radarlara (dative plural)
radarda (locative singular)
radarlarda (locative plural)
radardan (ablative singular)
radarlardan (ablative plural)
radarın (genitive singular)
radarların (genitive plural)
radarım (first-person nominative singular)
radarlarım (first-person nominative singular)
radarın (nominative second-person singular)
radarların (nominative second-person singular)
radarı (nominative singular third-person)
radarları (nominative singular third-person)
radarımız (first-person nominative plural)
radarlarımız (first-person nominative plural)
radarınız (nominative plural second-person)
radarlarınız (nominative plural second-person)
radarları (nominative plural third-person)
radarımı (accusative definite first-person singular)
radarlarımı (accusative definite first-person singular)
radarını (accusative definite second-person singular)
radarlarını (accusative definite second-person singular)
radarını (accusative definite singular third-person)
radarlarını (accusative definite singular third-person)
radarımızı (accusative definite first-person plural)
radarlarımızı (accusative definite first-person plural)
radarınızı (accusative definite plural second-person)
radarlarınızı (accusative definite plural second-person)
radarlarını (accusative definite plural third-person)
radarıma (dative first-person singular)
radarlarıma (dative first-person singular)
radarına (dative second-person singular)
radarlarına (dative second-person singular)
radarına (dative singular third-person)
radarlarına (dative singular third-person)
radarımıza (dative first-person plural)
radarlarımıza (dative first-person plural)
radarınıza (dative plural second-person)
radarlarınıza (dative plural second-person)
radarlarına (dative plural third-person)
radarımda (first-person locative singular)
radarlarımda (first-person locative singular)
radarında (locative second-person singular)
radarlarında (locative second-person singular)
radarında (locative singular third-person)
radarlarında (locative singular third-person)
radarımızda (first-person locative plural)
radarlarımızda (first-person locative plural)
radarınızda (locative plural second-person)
radarlarınızda (locative plural second-person)
radarlarında (locative plural third-person)
radarımdan (ablative first-person singular)
radarlarımdan (ablative first-person singular)
radarından (ablative second-person singular)
radarlarından (ablative second-person singular)
radarından (ablative singular third-person)
radarlarından (ablative singular third-person)
radarımızdan (ablative first-person plural)
radarlarımızdan (ablative first-person plural)
radarınızdan (ablative plural second-person)
radarlarınızdan (ablative plural second-person)
radarlarından (ablative plural third-person)
radarımın (first-person genitive singular)
radarlarımın (first-person genitive singular)
radarının (genitive second-person singular)
radarlarının (genitive second-person singular)
radarının (genitive singular third-person)
radarlarının (genitive singular third-person)
radarımızın (first-person genitive plural)
radarlarımızın (first-person genitive plural)
radarınızın (genitive plural second-person)
radarlarınızın (genitive plural second-person)
radarlarının (genitive plural third-person)


pit

From Middle English pit, pet, püt, from Old English pytt, from Proto-West Germanic *puti, from Latin puteus (“trench, pit, well”), although there are phonetic difficulties.

he who digs a pit for others falls in himself


MIA

I have visited more than half a dozen carrier training facilities, spent over 150 hours on jumpseats, piloted a Lockheed 1011 from MIA to LAX, visited numerous towers, rapcons, and centers, and discussed our commercial Air Transport System with everyone involved.

1975, John H. Reed, Transportation Safety Board, Safety Information (in English), page 30:

(international standards, aviation) IATA airport code for Miami International Airport, which serves Miami, Florida, United States.


bank

From Middle English bank, from Old English hōbanca (“couch”) and Old English banc (“bank, hillock, embankment”), from Proto-Germanic *bankô. Akin to Old Norse bakki (“elevation, hill”), Norwegian bakke (“slope, hill”).

der

(aviation) The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.


bank

en-verb

bank (third-person singular simple present banks, present participle banking, simple past and past participle banked)

banks (present singular third-person)
banking (participle present)
banked (participle past)
banked (past)

(intransitive, aviation) To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.


close

From Middle English closen (“to close, enclose”), partly continuing (in altered form) earlier Middle English clusen (“to close”) (from Old English clȳsan (“to close, shut”); compare beclose, foreclose, etc.), and partly derived from Middle English clos (“close, shut up, confined, secret”, adjective), from Old French clos (“close, confined”, adjective), from Latin clausus (“shut up”, past participle), from claudere (“to bar, block, close, enclose, bring an end to, confine”), from Proto-Indo-European *klāw- (“key, hook, nail”), related to Latin clāvis (“key, deadbolt, bar”), clāvus (“nail, peg”), claustrum (“bar, bolt, barrier”), claustra (“dam, wall, barricade, stronghold”). Cognate with Ancient Greek κλείς (kleís, “bar, bolt, key”), German schließen (“to close, conclude, lock”), Dutch sluiten (“to close, conclude, lock”). Partially replaced Old English lūcan (“to close, lock, enclose”), (whence English lock). Doublet of clause.

cog

(aviation, travel) The time when checkin staff will no longer accept passengers for a flight.


boom

en-verb

boom (third-person singular simple present booms, present participle booming, simple past and past participle boomed)

booms (present singular third-person)
booming (participle present)
boomed (participle past)
boomed (past)

Onomatopoeic, perhaps borrowed; compare German bummen, Dutch bommen (“to hum, buzz”). The sense "a period of economic growth" is generally taken to derive from the sense "a rapid expansion", although other origins have also been suggested.


boom

→ German: Boom

Indonesian: bum

→ Japanese: ブーム (būmu)

→ Polish: boom


thin

en-adj

thin (comparative thinner, superlative thinnest)

thinner (comparative)
thinnest (superlative)

From Middle English thinne, thünne, thenne, from Old English þynne, from Proto-West Germanic *þunnī, from Proto-Germanic *þunnuz (“thin”) – compare *þanjaną (“to stretch, spread out”) – from Proto-Indo-European *ténh₂us (“thin”), from *ten- (“to stretch”).
Cognate with German dünn, Dutch dun, West Frisian tin, Icelandic þunnur, Danish tynd, Swedish tunn, Latin tenuis, Irish tanaí, Welsh tenau, Latvian tievs, Polish cienki, Russian тонкий (tonkij), Sanskrit तनु (tanú, “thin”), Persian تنگ (tang, “narrow”). Doublet of tenuis. Also related to tenuous.

In short, we previously found that thin routes benefit from an increase in competition in the Spanish airline market when considering routes that were monopoly routes in 2001.

2016, Hartmut Wolf, Peter Forsyth, David Gillen, Liberalization in Aviation, page 105:

(aviation) Of a route: relatively little used.


ACT

(international standards, aviation) IATA airport code for Waco Regional Airport, which serves Waco, Texas, United States.


finger

Sranan Tongo: finga

PIE word
 *pénkʷe
From Middle English fynger, finger, from Old English finger (“finger”), from Proto-West Germanic *fingr, from Proto-Germanic *fingraz (“finger”), from Proto-Indo-European *penkʷrós, from *pénkʷe (“five”). Compare West Frisian finger, Low German/German Finger, Dutch vinger, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish finger; also Old Armenian հինգեր-որդ (hinger-ord, “fifth”). More at five.

sormi

something similar in function to a finger

Something similarly extending, (especially) from a larger body, particularly:

(aviation) Synonym of jet bridge: the narrow elevated walkway connecting a plane to an airport.


finger

Unadapted borrowing from English finger.


RJ

en-noun

RJ (countable and uncountable, plural RJs)


helicopter

→ Amharic: ሄሊኮፕተር (helikoptär)

→ Cebuano: helikopter

→ Malay: helikopter

→ Tagalog: helikopter

/ˈhɛlɪˌkɑptɜɹ/

Borrowed from French hélicoptère, from Ancient Greek ἕλιξ (hélix, “spiral”) + πτερόν (pterón, “wing”). Doublet of helicopteron. By surface analysis, helico- + -pter. The dragonfly sense is from a dragonfly's ability to hover and fly in any direction, like the flying machine.

af

We flew over the city in a helicopter.

(aircraft) An aircraft that is borne along by one or more sets of long rotating blades which allow it to hover, move in any direction including reverse, or land; and typically having a smaller set of blades on its tail to stabilize the aircraft.


DC

(aviation) Initialism of Douglas Commercial, used in the names of airliners designed by the Douglas Aircraft Company.


RR

(aviation, travel, dated) (from the status code used in the GDS) reconfirm / reconfirmed.


QC

en-noun

QC (countable and uncountable, plural QCs)

(aviation) Initialism of quick change: a type of aircraft that can be rapidly switched between passenger and cargo configurations


AC

absolute ceiling
absolute ceiling#English

(aviation) Initialism of absolute ceiling.


YC

Combination of prefix C and prefix modifier Y

(US, military, aviation) prototype cargoplane (prefix)


VC

VC (countable and uncountable, plural VCs)

→ Bengali: ভিসি (bhiśi)

very important person
very important person#English

(US, air force, aviation) Initialism of VIP cargo. Prefix code for very important persons transport aircraft.


PB

PB (countable and uncountable, plural PBs)

(US, military, aviation) Initialism of patrol bomber.


CL

(aviation) the prefix for Canadair manufactured aircraft model numbers


CL

CL (countable and uncountable, plural CLs)

lift coefficient
lift coefficient#English

(aviation) Initialism of lift coefficient.


NF

(US, aviation) Prefix code for NASA research fighter plane designations.


AG

AG (countable and uncountable, plural AGs)

agricultural aviation
agricultural aviation#English

(aviation, uncountable) Abbreviation of agricultural aviation.


TB

TB (countable and uncountable, plural TBs)

(military, aviation) Initialism of torpedo bomber.

(military, aviation) Initialism of trainer bomber (“a bomber that also serves as a trainer aircraft”).


FL

(aviation) Abbreviation of flight level.


GA

GA (countable and uncountable, plural GAs)

general aviation
general aviation#English

(aviation) Initialism of general aviation.


TA

TA (countable and uncountable, plural TAs)

traffic advisory
traffic advisory#English

(countable, aviation) Initialism of traffic advisory (a type of TCAS warning).


CH

CH (countable and uncountable, plural CHs)

cargo helicopter
cargo helicopter#English

(US, army, aviation) Initialism of cargo helicopter.


NC

(US, aviation) prefix code for NASA research cargo plane designations.


AB

AB (countable and uncountable, plural ABs)

(military, aviation) Initialism of airbase.


ND

(aviation) Initialism of navigation display.


OH

(US, army, aviation) Initialism of observation helicopter.


NH

(US, aviation) prefix code for NASA research helicopter designations.


NB

(US, aviation) Initialism of NASA research bomber plane. (prefix code in designations)


IMF

(international standards, aviation) IATA airport code for Imphal International Airport, which serves Imphal, Manipur, India.


bucket

→ Farefare: bɔgtɛ

→ Japanese: バケツ (baketsu)

→ Maori: pākete

From Middle English buket, boket, partly from Old English bucc ("bucket, pitcher"; mod. dialectal buck), equivalent to bouk + -et; and partly from Anglo-Norman buket, buquet (“tub; pail”) (compare Norman boutchet, Norman bouquet), diminutive of Old French buc (“abdomen; object with a cavity”), from Vulgar Latin *būcus (compare Occitan and Catalan buc, Italian buco, buca (“hole, gap”)), from Frankish *būk (“belly, stomach”). Both the Old English and Frankish terms derive from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly, stomach”). More at bouk.

gloss

"bucket, pitcher"; mod. dialectal <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">buck</i>

der

mechanical engineering
mechanical engineering

(aviation, mechanical engineering, uncommon) A turbine blade driven by hot gas or steam.


wing

From Middle English winge, wenge, from Old Norse vængr ("wing of a flying animal, wing of a building"; compare vængi (“ship's cabin”)), from Proto-Germanic *wēingijaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”), thus related to wind. Cognate with Danish vinge (“wing”), Swedish vinge (“wing”), Icelandic vængur (“wing”).
Replaced native Middle English fither (from Old English fiþre, from Proto-Germanic *fiþriją), which merged with Middle English fether (from Old English feþer, from Proto-Germanic *feþrō). More at feather.

gl

"wing of a flying animal, wing of a building"; compare <i class="Latn mention" lang="non">vængi</i> (“ship's cabin”)

der

I took my seat on the plane, overlooking the wing.

(aviation) Part of an aircraft that produces the lift for rising into the air.


PBB

en-noun

PBB (countable and uncountable, plural PBBs)

(aviation) Initialism of passenger boarding bridge.; Synonym of jet bridge


Zulu

(law enforcement, slang) police helicopter


zoom

en-verb

zoom (third-person singular simple present zooms, present participle zooming, simple past and past participle zoomed)

zooms (present singular third-person)
zooming (participle present)
zoomed (participle past)
zoomed (past)

→ Dutch: zoomen

→ Finnish: zoomata

→ French: zoomer

→ German: zoomen

→ Italian: zoomare

→ Norwegian Bokmål: zoome

Uncertain. The verb was attested in 1892, noun in 1918 and interjection in 1942. Apparently related to Scots soom (“to buzz, hum”), dialectal English and Scots soom, swoom, sweem (“to spin or twirl at high speed”). Compare also dialectal English sweem (“to swoon, become dizzy or faint”).


lane

From Middle English lane, lone, from Old English lanu (“a lane, alley, avenue”), from Proto-West Germanic *lanu, from Proto-Germanic *lanō (“lane, passageway”).
Cognate with Scots lone (“cattle-track, by-road”), West Frisian leane, loane (“a walkway, avenue”), Dutch laan (“alley, avenue”), German Low German Lane, Laan (“lane”), Swedish lån (“covered walkway encircling a house”), Icelandic lön (“a row of houses”).

cog

Penny Lane

(used in street names) A road, street, or similar thoroughfare.


bleed

en-noun

bleed (countable and uncountable, plural bleeds)

From Middle English bleden, from Old English blēdan (“to bleed”), from Proto-West Germanic *blōdijan, from Proto-Germanic *blōþijaną (“to bleed”), from *blōþą (“blood”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots blede, bleid (“to bleed”), Saterland Frisian bläide (“to bleed”), West Frisian bliede (“to bleed”), Dutch bloeden (“to bleed”), Low German blöden (“to bleed”), German bluten (“to bleed”), Danish bløde (“to bleed”), Swedish blöda (“to bleed”).

When taking off at high altitude or at near-maximum weight, the bleeds have to be turned off temporarily, as they decrease engine power somewhat.

(aviation, usually in the plural) A system for tapping hot, high-pressure air from a gas turbine engine for purposes such as cabin pressurization and airframe anti-icing.


dive

From Middle English diven, duven, from the merger of Old English dȳfan (“to dip, immerse”, transitive weak verb) (from Proto-Germanic *dūbijaną) and dūfan (“to duck, dive, sink, penetrate”, intransitive strong verb) (past participle ġedofen). Cognate with Icelandic dýfa (“to dip, dive”), Low German bedaven (“covered, covered with water”). See also deep, dip.

cog

(aviation) Aerial descent with the nose pointed down.

şığıma

aerial descend with the nose pointed down


nose

en-verb

nose (third-person singular simple present noses, present participle nosing, simple past and past participle nosed)

noses (present singular third-person)
nosing (participle present)
nosed (participle past)
nosed (past)

Audio (London, UK)

Audio (UK)

From Middle English nose, from Old English nosu, from Proto-West Germanic *nosu, variant of *nasō, old dual from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s- ~ *nh₂es- (“nose, nostril”).
See also Saterland Frisian Noose, West Frisian noas, Dutch neus, Swedish nos, Norwegian nos (“snout”), German Low German Nees, Nes, Näs, German Nase, Swedish näsa, Norwegian nese, Danish næse (“nose”); also Latin nāris (“nostril”), nāsus (“nose”), Lithuanian nósis, Russian нос (nos), Sanskrit नासा (nā́sā, “nostrils”).

(intransitive, aviation) To dive down in a steep angle; to nosedive

The plane is nosing up!

We have to get it nosing down.

(intransitive, aviation, nautical) To travel with the nose of the plane/ship aimed in a particular direction.


angel

Jamaican Creole: ienjel

→ Chinese: 安琪兒／安琪儿 (ānqí'ér)

→ Hawaiian: ʻānela

→ Lingala: anjelu, anzelu

→ Malagasy: anjely

Florence Baptistery
Seven churches of Asia
en:Angel (disambiguation)
en:angel

Two Baroque angels from southern Germany, from the mid-18th century
From Middle English angel, aungel, ængel, engel, from Old English anġel, ænġel, enġel, enċġel (“angel, messenger”), from Proto-West Germanic *angil, borrowed from Latin angelus, itself from Ancient Greek ἄγγελος (ángelos, “messenger”); and also in part from Anglo-Norman angele, angle, from the same Latin source. The religious sense of the Greek word first appeared in the Septuagint as a translation of the Hebrew word מַלְאָךְ (malʾāḵ, “messenger”) or יהוה מַלְאָךְ (malʾāḵ YHWH, “messenger of YHWH”).
Use of the term in some churches to refer to a church official derives from interpreting the "angels" of the Seven churches of Asia in Revelation as being bishops or ministers rather than angelic beings.

der

don't drive faster than your guardian angel can fly

unidentified flying object
unidentified flying object

(colloquial, dated) An unidentified flying object detected by air traffic control radar.


tractor

→ Bengali: ট্র্যাক্টর (ṭrjakṭor)

→ Japanese: トラクター (torakutā)

desc

→ Hindi: ट्रेक्टर (ṭrekṭar), ट्रैक्टर (ṭraikṭar)

→ Khmer: ត្រាក់ទ័រ (traktɔə)

→ Korean: 트랙터 (teuraekteo)

desctree

→ Russian: тра́ктор (tráktor), тра́кторъ (tráktor) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
→ Armenian: տրակտոր (traktor)
→ Azerbaijani: traktor
⇒ Chinese:
Cantonese: 拖拉機／拖拉机 (to¹ laai¹ gei¹)
Dungan: туәлаҗи (tuəlaži)
Mandarin: 拖拉機／拖拉机 (tuōlājī)
Min Nan: 拖拉機／拖拉机 (thoa-la-ki / tho-la-ki)
→ Bouyei: toylayjiy
→ Burmese: ထော် လာဂျီ (htau lagyi)
→ Lü: ᦷᦒᧈᦟᦱᧈᦋᦲᧈ (tho¹laa¹tsii¹)
→ Tibetan: ཐོ་ལ་ཅི (tho la ci)
→ Zhuang: dohlahgih
→ Dungan: трактор (traktor)
→ Georgian: ტრაქტორი (ṭrakṭori)
→ Ingrian: traktora
→ Kazakh: трактор (traktor)
→ Korean: 뜨락또르 (tteurakttoreu) (North Korea)
→ Kyrgyz: трактор (traktor)
→ Mongolian:
Cyrillic script: трактор (traktor)
Mongolian script: ᠲᠷᠠᠻᠲᠣᠷ (traktor)
→ Tajik: трактор (traktor)
→ Turkmen: traktor
→ Uyghur: تراكتور (traktor)
→ Uzbek: traktor

desc

→ Thai: แทรกเตอร์ (trɛ́k-dtə̂ə)

→ Thai: แทรกเตอร์ (trɛ́k-dtə̂ə)

→ Urdu: ٹْرَیکْٹَر (ṭraikṭar), ٹَرَیکْٹَر (ṭaraikṭar)

Formed from Latin tractus, perfect passive participle of trahere (“to pull”), + agent noun suffix -or.

(aviation) An aeroplane where the propeller is located in front of the fuselage.


overrun

en-noun

overrun (countable and uncountable, plural overruns)

/ˈəʊ.vəˌɹʌn/

/ˈoʊ.vɚˌɹʌn/

The runway has 7,000 feet of paved surface, plus a 2,000-foot grass overrun.

(aviation) An area of terrain beyond the end of a runway that is kept flat and unobstructed to allow an aircraft that runs off the end of the runway to stop safely.


law

law (countable and uncountable, plural laws)

From Middle English lawe, laȝe, from Old English lagu (“law”), borrowed from Old Norse lǫg (“law”, literally “things laid down or firmly established”), originally the plural of lag (“layer, stratum, a laying in order, measure, stroke”), from Proto-Germanic *lagą (“that which is laid down”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie”). Cognate with Scots law (“law”), Icelandic lög (“things laid down, law”), Faroese lóg (“law”), Norwegian lov (“law”), Swedish lag (“law”), Danish lov (“law”), Finnish laki (“law”). Replaced Old English ǣ and ġesetnes. More at lay.
Not related to legal, nor to French loi, Spanish ley, all of which ultimately derive from Latin lēx, from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to gather”).

азакуан

body of rules established in a community by its authorities

normal law; alternate law; direct law

(aviation) A mode of operation of the flight controls of a fly-by-wire aircraft.


drive

en-verb

drive (third-person singular simple present drives, present participle driving, simple past drove or (archaic) drave or (dialectal) driv, past participle driven or (dialectal) druv or (dialectal) drove)

drives (present singular third-person)
driving (participle present)
drove (past)
drave (archaic past)
driv (dialectal past)
driven (participle past)
druv (dialectal participle past)
drove (dialectal participle past)

→ Scottish Gaelic: draibh

[d̠ɹ̠ ̝ʷaɪv]

From Middle English driven, from Old English drīfan (“to drive, force, move”), from Proto-West Germanic *drīban, from Proto-Germanic *drībaną (“to drive”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreybʰ- (“to drive, push”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots drive (“to drive”), North Frisian driwe (“to drive”), Saterland Frisian drieuwe (“to drive”), West Frisian driuwe (“to chase, drive, impel”), Dutch drijven (“to drive”), Low German drieven (“to drive, drift, push”), German treiben (“to drive, push, propel”), Norwegian Bokmål drive, Danish drive (“to drive, run, force”), Norwegian Nynorsk driva, Swedish driva (“to drive, power, drift, push, force”), Icelandic drífa (“to drive, hurry, rush”).

سَاقَ

to move (something) by hitting it with great force

drive a 737

(transitive, slang, aviation) To operate (an aircraft); to pilot.

To operate a vehicle:
To operate (an aircraft); to pilot.


paint

en-verb

paint (third-person singular simple present paints, present participle painting, simple past and past participle painted)

paints (present singular third-person)
painting (participle present)
painted (participle past)
painted (past)

→ Kashubian: peintowac (United States)

From Middle English peynten, from Old French peintier, paincter, itself from paint, the past participle of paindre, from Latin pingō (“to paint”) (perfect passive participle pictus). Displaced native Old English tēafor (“paint”) and *tīefran (“to paint”).

"We'll paint the target for the flyboys," the JTAC said.

The Albuquerque radar “painted” just one object whenever the light was on, none when it was off.

2023, J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience: Evidence Behind Close Encounters, Project Blue Book, and the Search for Answers, Red Wheel/Weiser, →ISBN, page 73:

(transitive, military or aviation, slang) To detect (something) with radar.


bug

First attested in this form around 1620 (referring to a bedbug), from earlier bugge (“beetle”), a conflation of two words:
# Middle English bugge (“scarecrow, hobgoblin”), perhaps from obsolete Welsh bwg ("ghost, hobgoblin"; compare Welsh bwgwl ("threat", older "fear")) or from Proto-Germanic *bugja- (“swollen up, thick”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew-, *bu- (“to swell”) (compare Norwegian bugge (“big man”), dialectal Low German Bögge (“goblin”, “snot”)). Or, from a word related to buck and originally referring to a goat-shaped spectre.
# Middle English budde (“beetle”), from Old English budda (see sċearnbudda (“dung beetle”)), from Proto-Germanic *buddô, *buzdô, from the same ultimate source as above (compare Low German Budde (“louse, grub”), Norwegian budda (“newborn domestic animal”)). More at bud.
The term is used to refer to technical errors and problems at least as early as the 19th century, predating the commonly known story of a moth being caught in a computer.

cog

given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow

You look up the proper speed for the phase of flight, set the reminder bug, and then literally forget the speed. You don't read the airspeed number, you fly to the bug.

2004, Flying Magazine, volume 131, number 10, page 10:

(aviation) A manually positioned marker in flight instruments.


button

→ German: Button

→ Hindi: बटन (baṭan)

→ Gujarati: બટન (baṭan)

→ Korean: 버튼 (beoteun)

→ Maori: pātene

→ Marathi: बटण (baṭaṇ)

→ Urdu: بَٹَن (baṭan)

From Middle English boton, botoun, from Old French boton (Modern French bouton), from Old French bouter, boter (“to push; thrust”), ultimately from a Germanic language. Doublet of Biden and beat. More at butt.

In attempting to touch down on the button of the runway, he misjudged his altitude and struck a pile of rocks short of the runway. The right wheel was torn off and the gear leg bent backwards.

1984, Synopses of Aircraft Accidents: Civil Aircraft in Canada, page 42:

The second and slightly higher aircraft on the approach showed no reaction to this barrage of pyrotechnics and continued blissfully down toward the button of the runway.

1999, Les Morrison, Of Luck and War, page 69:


spat

Shortening of spatterdash, from spatter + dash. 1779.

(aviation) A drag-reducing aerodynamic fairing covering the upper portions of the tyres of an aeroplane equipped with non-retractable landing gear.


shear

en-verb

shear (third-person singular simple present shears, present participle shearing, simple past sheared or shore, past participle shorn or sheared)

shears (present singular third-person)
shearing (participle present)
sheared (past)
shore (past)
shorn (participle past)
sheared (participle past)

From Middle English sheren, scheren, from Old English sċieran (“to shear; to shave”), from Proto-West Germanic *skeran, from Proto-Germanic *skeraną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”).
Cognate with West Frisian skarre, Low German scheren, Dutch scheren, German scheren, Danish skære, Norwegian Bokmål skjære, Norwegian Nynorsk skjera, Swedish skära, Finnish keritä; and (from Indo-European) with Ancient Greek κείρω (keírō, “I cut off”), Latin caro (“flesh”), Albanian shqerr (“to tear, cut”), harr (“to cut, to mow”), Lithuanian skìrti (“separate”), Welsh ysgar (“separate”). See also sharp.

inh

The total along-the-runway wind component sheared from an 8-knot headwind to about a 56-knot tailwind over a 44-second period.

1985 March 21, National Transportation Safety Board, “2.3 Airplane Takeoff Performance”, in Aircraft Accident Report: United Airlines Flight 663, Boeing 727-222, N7647U, Denver, Colorado, May 31, 1984, page 41:

(aviation, meteorology, intransitive, of wind) To change in direction or speed.


shear

en-noun

shear (countable and uncountable, plural shears)

The first effect of a wind shear was detected at 34 to 42 seconds into the takeoff, at a speed of about 115 KIAS with the airplane about 3,800 feet down the runway. An average shear rate of about 2.5 knots per second resulted in an interruption in acceleration at this point with the airspeed remaining at 115 to 120 KIAS for 7 to 10 seconds.

(aviation, meteorology, uncountable) The phenomenon of wind shear.

We hit a nasty shear on approach and had to go around.

(aviation, meteorology, countable) A specific instance of wind shear.


hold

Derived from Middle English holden, derived from Old English healdan, derived from Proto-West Germanic *haldan, derived from Proto-Germanic *haldaną (“to tend, herd”), maybe derived from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“to drive”).
cognates
*West Frisian hâlde
*Low German holden, holen
*Dutch houden
*German halten
*Danish
*Norwegian Bokmål holde
*Norwegian Nynorsk halda.
Compare Latin celer (“quick”), Tocharian B käl- (“to goad, drive”), Ancient Greek κέλλω (kéllō, “to drive”), Sanskrit कलयति (kalayati, “to impel”).

der+

(aviation) A region of airspace reserved for aircraft being kept in a holding pattern.


hold

Alteration (due to hold) of hole. Cognate with Dutch hol (“hole, cave, den, cavity, cargo hold”), Dutch holte (“cavity, hollow, den”).

cog

We watched our luggage being loaded into the hold of the plane.

(nautical, aviation) The cargo area of a ship or aircraft (often holds or cargo hold).


buzzard

From Middle English bosart, from Anglo-Norman buisart, from Old French busart, busard, a derivative ( + -ard) of Old French buison, buson (French buse), possibly from Latin būteō (“hawk”).

(US, military slang, World War I) A fighter plane.


down

en-adj

down (comparative more down, superlative most down)

tlb

(chiefly predicative, but see usage notes)

more down (comparative)
most down (superlative)

From Middle English doun, from Old English dūne, aphetic form of adūne, from ofdūne (“off the hill”). For the development from directional phrases to prepositions, compare Middle Low German dāle (“(in/to the) valley”), i.e. "down(wards)".

noncog

We have a chopper down near the river.

(not comparable, military, aviation, slang, of an aircraft) Mechanically failed, collided, shot down, or otherwise suddenly unable to fly.


boot

Solombala English: бучь (bučʹ)

→ Russian: бутса (butsa)

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: бу́це

Latin script: búce

→ Swahili: buti

From Middle English boote, bote (“shoe”), from Old French bote (“a high, thick shoe”). Of obscure origin, but probably related to Old French bot (“club-foot”), bot (“fat, short, blunt”), from Old Frankish *butt, from Proto-Germanic *buttaz, *butaz (“cut off, short, numb, blunt”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewt-, *bʰewd- (“to strike, push, shock”); if so, a doublet of butt. Compare Old Norse butt (“stump”), Low German butt (“blunt, plump”), Old English bytt (“small piece of land”), buttuc (“end”). More at buttock and debut.

cog

couldn't pour water out of a boot with the instructions on the heel

(aviation) A rubber bladder on the leading edge of an aircraft’s wing, which is inflated periodically to remove ice buildup; a deicing boot.


sweep

From Middle English swepen, from Proto-West Germanic *swaipijan (unattested in Old English), from Proto-Germanic *swaipijaną. Cognate with Early Modern West Frisian swiepe (“whip, cleanse, sweep”), from Old Frisian swēpa, suepa (“sweep”). See also swoop.

airo

large oar used to propel and steer small vessels

The MiG-17's inner wing has 45 degrees of sweep.

(aviation) The degree to which an aircraft's wings are angled backwards (or, occasionally, forwards) from their attachments to the fuselage.


spoil

en-verb

spoil (third-person singular simple present spoils, present participle spoiling, simple past and past participle spoiled or spoilt)

spoils (present singular third-person)
spoiling (participle present)
spoiled (participle past)
spoiled (past)
spoilt (participle past)
spoilt (past)

→ Welsh: sbwylio

From Middle English spoilen, spuylen, borrowed from Old French espoillier, espollier, espuler, from Latin spoliāre, present active infinitive of spoliō (“pillage, ruin, spoil”).

(aviation) To reduce the lift generated by an airplane or wing by deflecting air upwards, usually with a spoiler.


CSS

en-noun

CSS (countable and uncountable, plural CSSs or CSSes)

(aviation, travel) Initialism of change segment status, a GDS code used on older types of airline keyboards.


upset

upset (countable and uncountable, plural upsets)

From Middle English upset (“the act of setting up; establishment”), from Middle English upsetten, corresponding to up- + set. Cognate with Middle Low German upset (“setup; arrangement”).

cog

The Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the unfavorable interaction of severe vertical air drafts and large longitudinal control displacements resulting in a longitudinal upset from which a successful recovery was not made.

1965 June 1, Civil Aeronautics Board, “Synopsis”, in Aircraft Accident Report: Northwest Airlines, Inc., Boeing 720B, N724US, Near Miami, Florida, February 12, 1963, retrieved 2022-11-25, page 1:

(aviation) The dangerous situation where the flight attitude or airspeed of an aircraft is outside the designed bounds of operation, possibly resulting in loss of control.


basket

en-noun

basket (countable and uncountable, plural baskets)

→ Irish: bascaed

From Middle English basket, from Anglo-Norman bascat, of obscure origin.
One theory is that it derives from Late Latin bascauda (“kettle, table-vessel”), from Proto-Brythonic (in Breton baskodenn), from Proto-Celtic *baskis (“bundle, load”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰask- (“bundle”). Related to Latin fascis (“bundle, package, load”). Doublet of fasces.

unk

obscure

buslo

a large, deep basket used especially in marketing

pangnan

a small basket used by fishermen or to hold flowers or fruit

Don't smoosh the basket.

(military, aircraft) A drogue (or para-drogue) in the probe-and-drogue refueling method


wake

Probably from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch wake, from or akin to Old Norse vǫk (“a hole in the ice”) ( > Danish våge, Icelandic vök), from Proto-Germanic *wakwō (“wetness”), from Proto-Indo-European *wegʷ- (“moist, wet”).

(aviation) The turbulent air left behind a flying aircraft.


shoot

en-verb

shoot (third-person singular simple present shoots, present participle shooting, simple past shot, past participle shot or (rare) shotten)

shoots (present singular third-person)
shooting (participle present)
shot (past)
shot (participle past)
shotten (participle past rare)
shoot (infinitive)

→ Catalan: xut

→ Greek: σουτ (sout)

→ Hijazi Arabic: شوت (šūt)

→ North Levantine Arabic: شوت (šūt)

→ Persian: شوت (šut)

desc

→ Portuguese: chuto, chute (Brazil), chutar

→ Romanian: șut

→ Vietnamese: sút

From Middle English shoten, from Old English scēotan, from Proto-West Germanic *skeutan, from Proto-Germanic *skeutaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kéwd-e-ti, from *(s)kewd- (“to shoot, throw”).
Cognates
Cognate with West Frisian sjitte, Low German scheten, Dutch schieten, German schießen, Danish skyde, Norwegian Bokmål skyte, Norwegian Nynorsk skyta, Swedish skjuta; and also, through Indo-European, with Russian кида́ть (kidátʹ), Albanian hedh (“to throw, toss”), Persian چست (čost, “quick, active”), Lithuanian skudrùs.

(+ partitive object when injuring or genitive object when killing) ampua

when the looting starts, the shooting starts

He tried to shoot the visual approach to runway 12, but the visibility was too low.

(aviation) To carry out, or attempt to carry out (an approach to an airport runway).


spin

en-verb

spin (third-person singular simple present spins, present participle spinning, simple past spun or (uncommon) span or (nonstandard) spinned, past participle spun or (nonstandard) spinned)

spins (present singular third-person)
spinning (participle present)
spun (past)
span (past uncommon)
spinned (nonstandard past)
spun (participle past)
spinned (nonstandard participle past)

From Middle English spinnen, from Old English spinnan, from Proto-Germanic *spinnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)penh₁-. Compare Low German spinnen, Dutch spinnen, German spinnen, Danish spinde, Swedish spinna.

(ergative) To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction.

(aviation, of an aircraft) To enter, or remain in, a spin (abnormal stalled flight mode).

(aviation, of a pilot) To cause one's aircraft to enter or remain in a spin (abnormal stalled flight mode).


spin

en-noun

spin (countable and uncountable, plural spins)

(aviation) A condition of flight where a stalled aircraft is simultaneously pitching, yawing, and rolling in a spinning motion.


chin

From Middle English chyn, from Old English ċinn (“chin”), from Proto-Germanic *kinnuz (“chin”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénus (“chin, jaw”). Compare West Frisian/Dutch kin, Low German/German Kinn, Danish kind, Icelandic kinn, Welsh gen, Latin gena, Tocharian A śanwem, Ancient Greek γένυς (génus, “jaw”), Armenian ծնոտ (cnot), Persian چانه (čâne), Sanskrit हनु (hánu). Doublet of gena.

inh

In the cleft of the aircraft's chin is a small turret for a forward-looking infrared (FLIR) "eyeball" that will enable MH-47E pilots to see clearly in complete darkness […]

Lockheed Martin's system is mounted behind a transparent, low-observable window blended into the aircraft's chin.

(aviation) The lower part of the front of an aircraft, below the nose.


butter

en-noun

butter (usually uncountable, plural butters)

→ Japanese: バター (batā)

→ Korean: 빠다 (ppada) (North Korea), 버터 (beoteo) (South Korea)

→ Sinhalese: බටර් (baṭar)

→ Zulu: ibhotela

From Middle English buter, butter, from Old English butere, from Proto-West Germanic *buterā, from Latin būtȳrum, from Ancient Greek βούτῡρον (boútūron, “cow cheese”), compound of βοῦς (boûs, “ox, cow”) and τῡρός (tūrós, “cheese”).

der

H@TipPalm-PalmDown-OpenB@CenterChesthigh-PalmUp Contact H@BasePalm H@TipPalm Contact H@BasePalm H@TipPalm Contact H@BasePalm

ܟܪܥܐ

kərāʿāʾ, kārʿāʾ, karʿāʾ

butter would not melt in someone's mouth

That landing was total butter!

(aviation, slang) A smooth plane landing.


stab

If the pilots used electric pitch trim, it would only pause MCAS for 5s; to deactivate it you have to switch off the STAB TRIM CUTOUT switches.

2020, Chris Brady, “737 MAX - MCAS”, in The Boeing 737 Technical Site, archived from the original on 2021-01-23:

(aviation, slang) The horizontal or vertical stabilizer of an aircraft.


float

en-verb

float (third-person singular simple present floats, present participle floating, simple past and past participle floated)

floats (present singular third-person)
floating (participle present)
floated (participle past)
floated (past)

From Middle English floten, from Old English flotian (“to float”), from Proto-West Germanic *flotōn, from Proto-Germanic *flutōną (“to float”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewd-, *plew- (“to float, swim, fly”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian flotje (“to float”), West Frisian flotsje (“to float”), Dutch vlotten (“to float”), Middle Low German vloten, vlotten (“to float, swim”), German flötzen, flößen (“to float”), Swedish flotta (“to float”), Icelandic fljóta, Old English flēotan (“to float, swim”), Ancient Greek πλέω (pléō), Lithuanian plaukti, Russian пла́вать (plávatʹ). Compare flow, fleet.

ভাসানো

to cause something to be suspended in a liquid of greater density

(intransitive, aviation) To remain airborne, without touching down, for an excessive length of time during landing, due to excessive airspeed during the landing flare.

leijua

aviation: to remain airborne for an excessive length of time during landing


base

en-noun

base (countable and uncountable, plural bases)

acid

antonym(s) of “chemical compound that will neutralize an alkali”

From Middle English base, bas, baas, from Old French base, from Latin basis, from Ancient Greek βάσις (básis). Doublet of basis and bass.

أَسَاس

something from which other things extend

basis

chemical compound that will neutralize an acid


stick

stick (countable and uncountable, plural sticks)

→ Catalan: estic

→ Italian: stick

→ Korean: 스틱 (seutik)

→ Portuguese: stique, estique

→ Sranan Tongo: tiki

From Middle English stikke (“stick, rod, twig”), from Old English sticca (“rod, twig”), from Proto-West Germanic *stikkō, from Proto-Germanic *stikkô, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to pierce, prick, be sharp”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Stikke (“stick”), West Flemish stik (“stick”). Related to stigma.

der

better than a poke in the eye with a burnt stick

better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick

better than a poke in the eye with a shitty stick

it is easy to find a stick to beat a dog

A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.

(aviation) The control column of an aircraft; a joystick. (By convention, a wheel-like control mechanism with a handgrip on opposite sides, similar to the steering wheel of an automobile, can also be called the "stick", although "yoke" or "control wheel" is more commonly seen.)

For example: in making a turn, should you throw on too much stick and not enough rudder, you'll sideslip.

1941, Jay D. Blaufox, 33 Lessons in Flying, page 47:

(aviation, uncountable) Use of the stick to control the aircraft.

Bill Kirk, described by Robin as a "hell of a stick," didn't even attend college until after the Vietnam War.

2001, John Darrell Sherwood, Fast Movers: America's Jet Pilots and the Vietnam Experience, page 30:

(slang, dated) A person or group of people. (Perhaps, in some senses, because people are, broadly speaking, tall and thin, like pieces of wood.)

(military aviation, from joystick) A fighter pilot.


wet

en-adj

wet (comparative wetter, superlative wettest)

wetter (comparative)
wettest (superlative)

Bislama: wet

→ Araki: wet

From Middle English wet (“wet, moistened”), wett, wette, past participle of Middle English weten (“to wet”), from Old English wǣtan (“to wet, moisten, water”), from Proto-Germanic *wētijaną (“to wet, make wet”), from Proto-Indo-European *wed- (“water, wet”) (also the source of water).
Cognate with Scots weit, wete (“to wet”), Saterland Frisian wäitje (“to wet; drench”), Icelandic væta (“to wet”). Compare also Middle English weet (“wet”), from Old English wǣt (“wet, moist, rainy”), from Proto-West Germanic *wāt, from Proto-Germanic *wētaz (“wet, moist”), related to Scots weit, weet, wat (“wet”), North Frisian wiat, weet, wäit (“wet”), Saterland Frisian wäit (“wet”), West Frisian wiet (“wet”), Middle Dutch wet (“wet, damp, watery”), Swedish and Norwegian våt (“wet”), Danish våd (“wet”), Faroese vátur (“wet”), Icelandic votur (“wet”).

cog

the cat would eat fish but would not wet her feet

This fighter jet's engine is rated for a maximum wet thrust of 450 kilonewtons, more than twice its max dry thrust, but the afterburner eats up a huge amount of fuel.

(aviation) Using afterburners or water injection for increased engine thrust.


CEO

en-noun

CEO (countable and uncountable, plural CEOs)

(aviation) Acronym of current engine option.


plate

→ Maori: pereti

→ Hindi: प्लेट (pleṭ)

From Middle English plate, from Old French plate, from Medieval Latin plata, from Vulgar Latin *plat(t)us, from Ancient Greek πλατύς (platús, “broad, flat, wide”). Compare Spanish plato.

der

(aviation, travel industry, dated) A metallic card, used to imprint tickets with an airline's logo, name, and numeric code.

(aviation, travel industry, by extension) The ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of a particular airline.

lipunkirjoitusoikeus

aviation: ability of a travel agent to issue tickets on behalf of a particular airline


plate

en-verb

plate (third-person singular simple present plates, present participle plating, simple past and past participle plated)

plates (present singular third-person)
plating (participle present)
plated (participle past)
plated (past)

From Middle English platen, from Old English platian and Old French plater, both ultimately from Latin plata (see above).

Tickets are normally plated on an itinerary's first international airline.

(aviation, travel industry) To specify which airline a ticket will be issued on behalf of.


heavy

en-adj

heavy (comparative heavier, superlative heaviest)

heavier (comparative)
heaviest (superlative)

Sranan Tongo: hebi

From Middle English hevy, heviȝ, from Old English hefiġ, hefeġ, hæfiġ (“heavy; important, grave, severe, serious; oppressive, grievous; slow, dull”), from Proto-West Germanic *habīg (“heavy, hefty, weighty”), from Proto-Germanic *habīgaz (“heavy, hefty, weighty”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“to take, grasp, hold”).
Cognates:
Cognate with Scots hevy, havy, heavy (“heavy”), Dutch hevig (“violent, severe, intense, acute”), Middle Low German hēvich (“violent, fierce, intense”), German hebig (compare heftig (“fierce, severe, intense, violent, heavy”)), Icelandic höfugur (“heavy, weighty, important”), Latin capāx (“large, wide, roomy, spacious, capacious, capable, apt”).

cog

(aviation, of an aircraft) Having a relatively high takeoff weight and payload.

In a firm voice he said, “World Wide Six heavy is ready for takeoff.”

1990, Perry Francis Lafferty, The Downing of Flight Six Heavy, page 85:

Having a maximum takeoff weight exceeding 300,000 tons, as almost all widebodies do, generating high wake turbulence.


heavy

I read five heavies, maybe transports or tankers...could be bombers.

2000, Philip Woods, Shattered Allegiance, page 363:

A 76 Squadron pilot who later completed a second tour on Mosquitoes said that his colleagues on the light bombers “simply could never understand how awful being on heavies was.”

2012, Jon E. Lewis, The Mammoth Book of Heroes:

(aviation) A relatively large multi-engined aircraft.


life

en-verb

life (third-person singular simple present lifes, present participle lifing, simple past and past participle lifed)

lifes (present singular third-person)
lifing (participle present)
lifed (participle past)
lifed (past)

From Middle English lyf, from Old English līf, from Proto-West Germanic *līb, from Proto-Germanic *lībą (“life, body”), from *lībaną (“to remain, stay, be left”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to stick, glue”). Cognate with Scots life, leif (“life”), North Frisian liff (“life, limb, person, livelihood”), West Frisian liif (“belly, abdomen”), Dutch lijf (“body”), Low German lif (“body; life, life-force; waist”), German Leib (“body; womb”) and Leben (“life”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish liv (“life; waist”), Icelandic líf (“life”). Related to belive.

cog

Now, the aim of the design is to extract more cycles from the component under study, at each new engine generation requirements are driving a reduction in the margin for the error, as parts cannot stand any drop in properties. Thus, the lifing procedures are refined by means of new models or additional specific testing for limiting features to increase the life of the components; […]

Ignacio Fernandez, ACCENT: Adaptive Control of Manufacturing Processes for a New Generation of Jet Engine Components, in 2012, D. Knörzer, J. Szodruch, Innovation for Sustainable Aviation in a Global Environment (page 302)

A decision was made as a matter of internal policy that all 'lifed' components on the two Royal aircraft would be removed at half-life and fitted to the two support aircraft, where the remaining life would be used prior to overhaul at the normal time.

2013, Chris Clark, From Hitler's U-Boats to Kruschev's Spyflights, page 180:

(aviation) To replace components whose operational lifetime has expired.


dirty

en-adj

dirty (comparative dirtier, superlative dirtiest)

dirtier (comparative)
dirtiest (superlative)

From Middle English dirti, alteration of earlier dritti, equivalent to dirt + -y. Cognate with Middle Low German drēterich (“dirty”).
See also drite.

(aviation) Having the undercarriage or flaps in the down position.


waffle

en-verb

waffle (third-person singular simple present waffles, present participle waffling, simple past and past participle waffled)

waffles (present singular third-person)
waffling (participle present)
waffled (participle past)
waffled (past)

The verb is borrowed from Scots waffle (“to waver, flap, flutter”), from waff (“to wag, wave; to flap, flutter”) + -le (diminutive or frequentative suffix), from Middle Scots waff (“signal; gust of wind; glimpse; a flapping, waving”), from Northern Middle English wafe, waffe, a variant of waven (“to move to and fro, sway; to stray, wander; (figuratively) to follow a weaving course; (figuratively) to vacillate, waver; to move something to and fro, wave”) (whence wave), from Old English wafian (“to wave”), from Proto-Germanic *wabōną, *wabjaną (“to sway; to wander”), from Proto-Indo-European *webʰ- (“to braid, weave”).
Regarding sense 5 (“to speak or write (something) at length without any clear aim or point”), compare Old English wæflian (“to talk foolishly”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Germanic *babalōną (“to babble, chatter”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰā- (“to say”) and/or Proto-Indo-European *baba- (“to talk vaguely; to mumble”). The Oxford English Dictionary does not derive the English word waffle from this Old English word. Compare also Dutch wauwelen (“to linger, waffle, jabber, gab, chat”).
The noun is derived from the verb.

cog

(intransitive, aviation, road transport, colloquial) Of an aircraft or motor vehicle: to travel in a slow and unhurried manner.

gemächlich dahingleiten

of an aircraft or motor vehicle: to travel in a slow and unhurried manner


metal

en-noun

metal (countable and uncountable, plural metals)

nonmetal

antonym(s) of “any of a number of chemical elements in the periodic table that form a metallic bond with other metal atoms”

From Middle English metal, a borrowing from Old French metal, from Latin metallum (“metal, mine, quarry, mineral”), itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek μέταλλον (métallon, “mine, quarry, metal”).

аметалл

atomic element or material made of such atoms

We have American Airlines tickets, but it's on British Airways metal.

(informal, travel, aviation) The actual airline operating a flight, rather than any of the codeshare operators.


scissors

en-noun

scissors pl (plural only, attributive scissor)

From Middle English sisours, sisoures (attested since 1350–1400), from Old French cisoires, from Vulgar Latin *cīsōria, plural of Late Latin cīsōrium (“cutting tool”) (compare chisel); from Latin word root -cīsus (compare excise) or caesus, past participle of caedō (“to cut”). Partially displaced native Old English sċēara (“scissors, shears”), whence shears.
* The current spelling, from the 16th century, is due to association with Medieval Latin scissor (“tailor”), from Latin carrying the meaning “carver, cutter”, from scindere (“to split”).

(uncountable, aviation, military, with the) A type of defensive maneuver in dogfighting, involving repeatedly turning one's aircraft towards that of the attacker in order to force them to overshoot.

(countable, aviation, military) An instance of the above dogfighting maneuver.


clean

en-adj

clean (comparative cleaner, superlative cleanest)

cleaner (comparative)
cleanest (superlative)

From Middle English clene, clane, from Old English clǣne (“clean, pure”), from Proto-West Germanic *klainī (“shining, fine, splendid, tender”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *glēy- (“gleaming”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to gleam”). Cognate with Scots clean (“absolute, pure, clear, empty”) and clene, clane (“clean”), North Frisian klien (“small”), Dutch klein (“small”), Low German kleen (“small”), German klein (“small”), Swedish klen (“weak, feeble, delicate”), Icelandic klénn (“poor, feeble, petty, snug, puny, cheesy, lame”).

cog

(aviation) Having the undercarriage and flaps in the up position.


black hole

desc

→ Bengali: ব্ল্যাকহোল (blêkhol), ব্ল্যাক হোল (blêk hol)

→ Japanese: ブラックホール (burakku hōru)

→ Korean: 블랙홀 (beullaekhol)

en:Black Hole of Calcutta
en:Hong-Yee Chiu
en:John Archibald Wheeler
en:black hole (disambiguation)

In reference to celestial bodies, physicist Hong-Yee Chiu attributed the term to his colleague Robert H. Dicke, who stated around 1960–1961 that the objects were "like the Black Hole of Calcutta". The first known usage in print was by journalist Ann Ewing in 1964. Widespread popularization of the term is generally credited to a 1967 lecture by physicist John Wheeler.

(aviation) A dangerous optical illusion that can occur on a nighttime approach with dark, featureless terrain between the aircraft and a brightly-lit runway, where the aircraft appears to the pilots to be higher up than it actually is, potentially triggering a premature or overly-steep descent and a crash short of the runway.


dry

en-adj

dry (comparative drier or dryer, superlative driest or dryest)

drier (comparative)
dryer (comparative)
driest (superlative)
dryest (superlative)

wet

antonym(s) of “abstinent from or banning alcohol”

wet

antonym(s) of “not using afterburners or water injection”

wet

of a scientist or lab: doing computation

Sranan Tongo: drei

[d̠͡ɹ̠˔ʷaɪ̯]

Adjective and noun from Middle English drye, dryge, drüȝe, from Old English drȳġe (“dry; parched, withered”), from Proto-West Germanic *drūgī, *draugī, from Proto-Germanic *drūgiz, *draugiz (“dry, hard”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerǵʰ- (“to strengthen; become hard”), from *dʰer- (“to hold, support”). The verb derives from Middle English drien, from Old English drȳġan (“to dry”), from Proto-West Germanic *drūgijan, from Proto-Germanic *drūgiz (“hard, desiccated, dry”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰerǵʰ- (“strong, hard, solid”).
cognates and related terms
 Cognate with Scots dry, drey (“dry”), North Frisian drüg, driig, Saterland Frisian druuch (“dry”), West Frisian droech (“dry”), Dutch droog (“dry”), Low German dröög (“dry”), German dröge (“dull”), Icelandic draugur (“a dry log”). Related also to German trocken (“dry”), West Frisian drege (“long-lasting”), Danish drøj (“tough”), Swedish dryg (“lasting, hard”), Icelandic drjúgur (“ample, long”), Latin firmus (“strong, firm, stable, durable”). See also drought, drain, dree.

cog

you don't miss the water till the well runs dry

you never miss the water till the well runs dry

you never miss the water until the well runs dry

This fighter jet's engine has a maximum dry thrust of 200 kilonewtons.

(aviation) Not using afterburners or water injection for increased thrust.


box

en-noun

box (plural boxes or (nonstandard, computing, humorous) boxen)

boxes (plural)
boxen (humorous nonstandard plural)

Tok Pisin: bokis

→ Afrikaans: boks

→ Bengali: বাক্স (bakśo)

→ Bulgarian: бокс (boks)

→ Crimean Tatar: boks

→ Danish: boks

→ Dutch: box m

→ Faroese: boks

→ French: box m

→ German: Box f

→ Hindustani:

Hindi: बकस m (bakas), बक्सा m (baksā)

Urdu: بکس m (baks, bakas)

→ Icelandic: box n

→ Indonesian: boks

→ Irish: bosca m

→ Italian: box m

→ Japanese: ボックス (bokkusu)

→ Korean: 박스 (bakseu)

→ Maori: pāka

→ Marwari: बकस (baks, bakas)

→ Nepali: बाकस (bākas)

→ Norman: bosc m

→ Norwegian: boks m

→ Pashto: بکس (baks)

→ Persian: باکس (bâks)

→ Polish: boks m

→ Portuguese: box m

→ Russian: бокс m (boks)

→ Scottish Gaelic: bogsa m, bocsa

→ Spanish: box m

→ Swedish: box c

→ Welsh: bocs

Etymology tree
Ancient Greek πῠ́ξος (púxos)
Ancient Greek -ις (-is)
Ancient Greek πυξίς (puxís)bor.
Late Latin buxisbor.
Proto-West Germanic *buhsā
Old English box
Middle English box
English box
From Middle English box (“container, box, cup”), from Old English box (“box, case”), from Proto-West Germanic *buhsā (“box”) from Late Latin buxis (“box”), Latin pyxis (“small box for medicines or toiletries”), of uncertain origin; compare Ancient Greek πύξος (púxos, “box or tablet made of boxwood; box; cylinder”) and Ancient Greek πυξίς (puxís, “box or tablet made of boxwood; box; cylinder”). Doublet of piseog, pyx, and pyxis.
Cognate with Middle Dutch bosse, busse (“jar; tin; round box”) (modern Dutch bos (“wood, forest”), bus (“container, box; bushing of a wheel”)), Old High German buhsa (Middle High German buhse, bühse, modern German Büchse (“box; can”)), Swedish hjulbössa (“wheel-box”).
The humorous plural form boxen is from box + -en, by analogy with oxen.

rasia

compartment or receptacle for receiving items

ramme

rectangular border around an image, text, etc.

ruutu

small area on a document for a tick mark

tofu

empty box displayed by some computer systems in place of a character not supported by available fonts

Senses relating to a two-dimensional object or space

(aviation) A diamond-shaped flying formation consisting of four aircraft.


start

start (nominative singular)
starty (nominative plural)
startu (genitive singular)
startów (genitive plural)
startowi (dative singular)
startom (dative plural)
start (accusative singular)
starty (accusative plural)
startem (instrumental singular)
startami (instrumental plural)
starcie (locative singular)
startach (locative plural)
starcie (singular vocative)
starty (plural vocative)

Z niecierpliwością czekałam na start samolotu do Paryża.

I was impatiently waiting for the plane to Paris to take off/for its take-off.


cycle

→ Japanese: サイクル (saikuru)

From Middle English cicle (“fixed length period of years”), from Late Latin cyclus, from Ancient Greek κύκλος (kúklos, “circle”), from Proto-Hellenic *kúklos, *kʷókʷlos, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlos (“circle, wheel”).
Doublet of chakra, chakram, charkha, chukker, cyclus, and wheel (see there for more).

pyörä

bicycle, tricycle, motorcycle etc. — see also bicycle

(aviation) One take-off and landing of an aircraft, referring to a pressurisation cycle which places stresses on the fuselage.


landen

de-verb

landen (weak, third-person singular present landet, past tense landete, past participle gelandet, auxiliary haben or sein)

landet (present singular third-person)
landete (past)
gelandet (participle past)
haben (auxiliary)
sein (auxiliary)
haben or sein (auxiliary)
landen (infinitive)
landend (participle present)
gelandet (participle past)
haben (auxiliary)
sein (auxiliary)
lande (first-person indicative present singular)
landen (first-person indicative plural present)
lande (first-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
landen (first-person plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
landest (indicative present second-person singular)
landet (indicative plural present second-person)
landest (second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
landet (plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
landet (indicative present singular third-person)
landen (indicative plural present third-person)
lande (singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
landen (plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
landete (first-person indicative preterite singular)
landeten (first-person indicative plural preterite)
landete (first-person formal rare singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
landeten (first-person formal plural rare subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
landetest (indicative preterite second-person singular)
landetet (indicative plural preterite second-person)
landetest (formal rare second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
landetet (formal plural rare second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
landete (indicative preterite singular third-person)
landeten (indicative plural preterite third-person)
landete (formal rare singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
landeten (formal plural rare subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
land (imperative second-person singular)
lande (imperative second-person singular)
landet (imperative plural second-person)
haben or sein (auxiliary)
habe gelandet (first-person indicative multiword-construction perfect singular)
bin gelandet (first-person indicative multiword-construction perfect singular)
haben gelandet (first-person indicative multiword-construction perfect plural)
sind gelandet (first-person indicative multiword-construction perfect plural)
habe gelandet (first-person multiword-construction perfect singular subjunctive)
sei gelandet (first-person multiword-construction perfect singular subjunctive)
haben gelandet (first-person multiword-construction perfect plural subjunctive)
seien gelandet (first-person multiword-construction perfect plural subjunctive)
hast gelandet (indicative multiword-construction perfect second-person singular)
bist gelandet (indicative multiword-construction perfect second-person singular)
habt gelandet (indicative multiword-construction perfect plural second-person)
seid gelandet (indicative multiword-construction perfect plural second-person)
habest gelandet (multiword-construction perfect second-person singular subjunctive)
seist gelandet (multiword-construction perfect second-person singular subjunctive)
seiest gelandet (multiword-construction perfect second-person singular subjunctive)
habet gelandet (multiword-construction perfect plural second-person subjunctive)
seiet gelandet (multiword-construction perfect plural second-person subjunctive)
hat gelandet (indicative multiword-construction perfect singular third-person)
ist gelandet (indicative multiword-construction perfect singular third-person)
haben gelandet (indicative multiword-construction perfect plural third-person)
sind gelandet (indicative multiword-construction perfect plural third-person)
habe gelandet (multiword-construction perfect singular subjunctive third-person)
sei gelandet (multiword-construction perfect singular subjunctive third-person)
haben gelandet (multiword-construction perfect plural subjunctive third-person)
seien gelandet (multiword-construction perfect plural subjunctive third-person)
hatte gelandet (first-person indicative multiword-construction pluperfect singular)
war gelandet (first-person indicative multiword-construction pluperfect singular)
hatten gelandet (first-person indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural)
waren gelandet (first-person indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural)
hätte gelandet (first-person multiword-construction pluperfect singular subjunctive)
wäre gelandet (first-person multiword-construction pluperfect singular subjunctive)
hätten gelandet (first-person multiword-construction pluperfect plural subjunctive)
wären gelandet (first-person multiword-construction pluperfect plural subjunctive)
hattest gelandet (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect second-person singular)
warst gelandet (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect second-person singular)
hattet gelandet (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural second-person)
wart gelandet (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural second-person)
hättest gelandet (multiword-construction pluperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
wärst gelandet (multiword-construction pluperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
wärest gelandet (multiword-construction pluperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
hättet gelandet (multiword-construction pluperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
wärt gelandet (multiword-construction pluperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
wäret gelandet (multiword-construction pluperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
hatte gelandet (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect singular third-person)
war gelandet (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect singular third-person)
hatten gelandet (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural third-person)
waren gelandet (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural third-person)
hätte gelandet (multiword-construction pluperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
wäre gelandet (multiword-construction pluperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
hätten gelandet (multiword-construction pluperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
wären gelandet (multiword-construction pluperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
landen werden (future future-i infinitive multiword-construction)
werde landen (first-person future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werden landen (first-person future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdest landen (future future-i multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdet landen (future future-i multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werde landen (future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werden landen (future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werde landen (first-person future future-i indicative multiword-construction singular)
werden landen (first-person future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural)
würde landen (first-person future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würden landen (first-person future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wirst landen (future future-i indicative multiword-construction second-person singular)
werdet landen (future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural second-person)
würdest landen (future future-i multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würdet landen (future future-i multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wird landen (future future-i indicative multiword-construction singular third-person)
werden landen (future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural third-person)
würde landen (future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
würden landen (future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
gelandet haben werden (future future-ii infinitive multiword-construction)
gelandet sein werden (future future-ii infinitive multiword-construction)
werde gelandet haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werde gelandet sein (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werden gelandet haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werden gelandet sein (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdest gelandet haben (future future-ii multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdest gelandet sein (future future-ii multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdet gelandet haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdet gelandet sein (future future-ii multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werde gelandet haben (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werde gelandet sein (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werden gelandet haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werden gelandet sein (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werde gelandet haben (first-person future future-ii indicative multiword-construction singular)
werde gelandet sein (first-person future future-ii indicative multiword-construction singular)
werden gelandet haben (first-person future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural)
werden gelandet sein (first-person future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural)
würde gelandet haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würde gelandet sein (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würden gelandet haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würden gelandet sein (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wirst gelandet haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction second-person singular)
wirst gelandet sein (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction second-person singular)
werdet gelandet haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural second-person)
werdet gelandet sein (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural second-person)
würdest gelandet haben (future future-ii multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würdest gelandet sein (future future-ii multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würdet gelandet haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würdet gelandet sein (future future-ii multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wird gelandet haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction singular third-person)
wird gelandet sein (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction singular third-person)
werden gelandet haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural third-person)
werden gelandet sein (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural third-person)
würde gelandet haben (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
würde gelandet sein (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
würden gelandet haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
würden gelandet sein (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)

Borrowed from Middle Low German landen, derived from the cognate form of German Land (“land”), ultimatively from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą, from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”). Replaced native länden.

der

Das Flugzeug landet auf der Landebahn.

(intransitive, aviation, nautical) to land [auxiliary sein]

Wir landen das Boot an diesem Strand.

(transitive, aviation, nautical) to land [auxiliary haben]


churn

en-verb

churn (third-person singular simple present churns, present participle churning, simple past and past participle churned)

churns (present singular third-person)
churning (participle present)
churned (participle past)
churned (past)

Noun from Middle English chyrne, cherne, kyrne ( > Scots kirn), from Old English ċyrn, ċyrin, ċirin (“churn”), from Proto-Germanic *kirnijǭ (“churn”); verb from Middle English chyrnen from Old English ċernan, from Proto-Germanic *kirnijaną (“to churn, stir”), of unknown origin. Cognate with West Frisian tsjerne, Dutch karn, Walloon serene, German Karn, Kirne, Norwegian Bokmål kjerne, Danish kærne, Swedish kärna, Icelandic kirna.

der

(informal, travel, aviation) To repeatedly cancel and rebook a reservation in order to refresh ticket time limits or other fare rule restrictions.


aeroplane

[ˈɛə̯.ɹə.pleɪ̯n]

Borrowed from French aéroplane, from Ancient Greek ἀερόπλανος (aeróplanos, “wandering in air”), from ἀήρ (aḗr, “air”) + πλάνος (plános, “wandering”). First used by Joseph Pline in an 1855 patent.https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Aircraft_Design/NeHoahlhCGMC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Joseph+Pline+glider&pg=PA3&printsec=frontcover;https://books.google.at/books?id=fSQUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA768&dq=Joseph+Pline+brevet+1855&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjgk5Cz_a_wAhXZhf0HHdjNAJwQ6AEwAnoECAIQAg#v=onepage&q=Joseph%20Pline%20brevet%201855&f=false

(aviation, Commonwealth) Synonym of airplane. A powered heavier-than-air aircraft with fixed wings.

airplane

(aeronautics, archaic, obsolete) Synonym of airfoil. An aerodynamic surface.


aeroplane

en-verb

aeroplane (third-person singular simple present aeroplanes, present participle aeroplaning, simple past and past participle aeroplaned)

aeroplanes (present singular third-person)
aeroplaning (participle present)
aeroplaned (participle past)
aeroplaned (past)

[ˈɛə̯.ɹə.pleɪ̯n]

The rod was discarded, and then, hand over hand, the prize of them all was aeroplaned to the top of the cliff.

1919, The American Angler, volume 4, page 221:


avion renifleur

fr-noun

avion renifleur m (plural avions renifleurs)


vliegtuig

head

vliegtuig (plural vliegtuie, diminutive vliegtuigie)

vliegtuie (plural)
vliegtuigie (diminutive)

From Dutch vliegtuig. Equivalent to vlieg + tuig.


vliegtuig

nl-noun

vliegtuig n (plural vliegtuigen, diminutive vliegtuigje n)

vliegtuigen (plural)
vliegtuigje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: vliegtuig

From vliegen (“to fly”) + tuig (“rig, device”).


stealth

From Middle English stelthe, from Old English stǣlþ, from Proto-Germanic *stēliþō, equivalent to steal + -th. Compare Old English stalu (“theft, stealth”), Old High German stāla (“theft”), German Diebstahl (“theft”).

(military, aviation, vehicles, technology) Having properties that diminish radar signatures.


機

From Middle Chinese 機／机 (kjɨj, “mechanism; opportunity, chance”). Compare modern Min Nan reading ki.

short for 飛行機 (hikōki): an airplane, an aircraft


fighter

From Middle English fightere, fyghtor, feghtere, feghtare, fiȝtare, fiȝtere, from Old English feohtere. Equivalent to fight + -er.

Little weapons / Over the phone / They like to threaten / The life that I know / They say "Get over here and get into the ring" / But I'm not really much of a fighter

2011, Lenka, Ben H. Allen (lyrics and music), “Roll with the Punches”, in Two, performed by Lenka:

(eulogistic) A person with a strong determination to resist protracted or severe adversity, especially illness.

A class of fixed-wing aircraft whose primary purpose is to shoot down other aircraft, sometimes accompanied by a secondary purpose of attacking ground targets.

Task Force 42 consisted of almost two dozen main line spinships, including the carriers Olympus Shadow and Neptune Station. Each of these can launch more than a hundred fighters or ALRs.

1990, Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion, New York: Doubleday, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 32:

I toss around [37,654 tonne] dreadnoughts like they were fighters; dimly aware of the former crews being crushed to liquescence.

2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Terminal Six (Legendary):

(science fiction, by extension) A starfighter

A participant in boxing or any martial art.


aircraft

/ˈɛə.kɹɑːft/

/ˈɛː.kɹɑːft/

/ˈɛəɹ.kɹæft/

/ˈɛːɹ.kɹæft/

light aircraft

aircraft manufacturer

aircraft licence

A vehicle capable of atmospheric flight due to interaction with the air, such as buoyancy or lift


ABM

(international standards, aviation) IATA airport code for Northern Peninsula Airport, which serves Bamaga, Queensland, Australia.


airplane

en-verb

airplane (third-person singular simple present airplanes, present participle airplaning, simple past and past participle airplaned)

airplanes (present singular third-person)
airplaning (participle present)
airplaned (participle past)
airplaned (past)

/ˈɛːˌpleɪ̯n/

/ˈɛəˌpleɪ̯n/

/ˈɛɚˌpleɪ̯n/

Alteration of aeroplane (Borrowed from French aéroplane, from Ancient Greek ἀερόπλανος (aeróplanos, “wandering in air”), from ἀήρ (aḗr, “air”) + πλάνος (plános, “wandering”). First used by Joseph Pline in an 1855 patent.https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Aircraft_Design/NeHoahlhCGMC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Joseph+Pline+glider&pg=PA3&printsec=frontcover;https://books.google.at/books?id=fSQUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA768&dq=Joseph+Pline+brevet+1855&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjgk5Cz_a_wAhXZhf0HHdjNAJwQ6AEwAnoECAIQAg#v=onepage&q=Joseph%20Pline%20brevet%201855&f=false)


EOD

(aviation) Initialism of end of daylight.


put down

put down (third-person singular simple present puts down, present participle putting down, simple past and past participle put down)

puts down (present singular third-person)
putting down (participle present)
put down (participle past)
put down (past)

The pilot managed to put down in a nearby farm field.

(aviation, idiomatic, of an aircraft) To land.


艙

Considered a 後起字／后起字 (hòuqǐzì). Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sʰaːŋ): semantic 舟 (“boat”) + phonetic 倉 (OC *sʰaːŋ).

zh-l

後起字／后起字 (hòuqǐzì)


ABC

(international standards, aviation) IATA airport code for Albacete Airport, which serves Albacete, Castilla–La Mancha, Spain.


ABC

Advance Booking Charter
w:Advance Booking Charter

(aviation) Initialism of Advance Booking Charter.


翼

/tubasa/ → /t͡subasa/
From Old Japanese.
Possibly a shift from a compound of 鳥(と) (to, “bird”) + 総(ふさ) (fusa, “tassel”).


holding pattern

en-noun

holding pattern (plural holding patterns)

The plane flew in a holding pattern for half an hour because one runway was closed.

(aviation) A path taken by an aircraft waiting to land.


DOJ

(travel, aviation) Initialism of double open jaw.


ADH

(international standards, aviation) IATA airport code for Aldan Airport, which serves Aldan, Sakha, Russia.


ADP

(international standards, aviation) IATA airport code for Ampara Airport, which serves Ampara, Eastern Province, Sri Lanka.


FM

FM (countable and uncountable, plural FMs)

(countable, aviation) Initialism of fan marker.


Space Shuttle

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Space Shuttle.wav

A space transportation system developed by NASA consisting of a reusable winged orbiter, a set of recoverable booster rockets, and a fuel tank.

mnogorázovyj tránsportnyj kosmíčeskij koráblʹ

многора́зовый тра́нспортный косми́ческий кора́бль


pitch

From Middle English picchen, pycchen (“to thrust in, fasten, settle”), from Old English *piċċan, from Proto-West Germanic *pikkijan, a variant of Proto-West Germanic *pikkōn (“to pick, peck”), whence Middle English pikken, picken (“to pick, pierce”), modern English pick.

килово клатене

nautical: measure of extent to which a vessel's bow and stern go up and down

the pitch of an aircraft

The rotation angle about the transverse axis.

(nautical, aviation) The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down.

nyökkääminen

aviation: measure of the degree to which an aircraft's nose tilts up or down

The propeller blades' pitch went to 90° as the engine was feathered.

(aviation) A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.


pitch

en-verb

pitch (third-person singular simple present pitches, present participle pitching, simple past and past participle pitched or (obsolete) pight)

pitches (present singular third-person)
pitching (participle present)
pitched (participle past)
pitched (past)
pight (obsolete participle past)
pight (obsolete past)

Spanish: pichar

uhrata

card games: discard a card for some gain

The typhoon pitched the deck of the ship.

The airplane pitched.

His bone leg steadied in that hole ; one arm elevated, and holding by a shroud ; Captain Ahab stood erect, looking straight out beyond the ship's ever-pitching prow.

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 28, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 136:

Half a dozen deserted boats pitched aimlessly upon the confusion of the waves.

1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 103:

(transitive, intransitive, aviation or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternatively up and down.

jyskiä

move so that the front of the craft goes alternatively up and down


alpha

en-noun

alpha (countable and uncountable, plural alphas)

From the Ancient Greek ἄλφα (álpha), the first letter of the Greek alphabet, from the Phoenician 𐤀 (ʾ, “aleph”). Doublet of alif and aleph.


HBO

/ˌeɪtʃ ˌbiː ˈoʊ/

(aviation, travel) Initialism of hand baggage only. (fare type)


gamma

gamma (countable and uncountable, plural gammas)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek γάμμα (gámma). Doublet of gimel.

(aviation) Flight path angle; the angle by which an aircraft's flight path deviates from the horizontal plane.


theta

→ Malay: teta

Borrowed from Ancient Greek θῆτα (thêta).

(aviation, by extension) Pitch angle; the angle between an aircraft's longitudinal axis and the horizontal plane.


beta

beta (countable and uncountable, plural betas)

From Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta). Doublet of beth.

(aviation) The range of engine power settings in which the blade pitch angle of a constant-speed propeller is controlled directly by the angle of the engine's throttle lever (rather than varying with engine torque and airspeed to maintain a constant propeller RPM), allowing the propeller to be disked to generate high drag and slow the aircraft quickly.


ADA

(international standards, aviation) IATA airport code for Adana Şakirpaşa Airport, which serves Adana, Turkey.


AAA

(international standards, aviation) IATA airport code for Anaa Airport, which serves Anaa, French Polynesia.


flight

flight (countable and uncountable, plural flights)

From Middle English flight, from Old English flyht (“flight”), from Proto-West Germanic *fluhti (“flight”), derived from *fleuganą (“to fly”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (“to fly”), enlargement of *plew- (“flow”). Analyzable as fly + -t (variant of -th).
Cognate with West Frisian flecht (“flight”), Dutch vlucht (“flight”), German Flucht (“flight”) (etymology 2).


AI

Audio (US)


balus

This term is from the Western Oceanic substrate languages; it was considered by Mihalic to have entered Tok Pisin from Tolai, but Mosel argues that it "has certainly not been introduced from Tolai, but from a southern New Ireland language. For, apart from some marginal dialects […] Tolai […] lack[s] the phoneme /s/."

Balus i stap long graun.


strafe

en-verb

strafe (third-person singular simple present strafes, present participle strafing, simple past and past participle strafed)

strafes (present singular third-person)
strafing (participle present)
strafed (participle past)
strafed (past)

From German strafe (“punish”) (a conjugated form of strafen), from phrases like Gott strafe England (“God punish England”) which the British saw during the First World War.

(transitive, military, aviation) To attack (ground targets) with automatic gunfire from a low-flying aircraft.


Vulcan

(aircraft) The Avro Vulcan, a type of jet-powered British bomber aircraft built by Avro during the Cold War.


pilot

→ Dari: پیلوت (pilot)

→ Hindi: पायलट (pāylaṭ)

→ Japanese: パイロット (pairotto)

→ Korean: 파일럿 (pailleot)

→ Northern Kurdish: pîlot

From Middle French pilot, pillot, from Italian pilota, piloto, older also pedotta, pedot(t)o (the form in pil- is probably influenced by pileggiare (“to sail, navigate”)); ultimately from unattested Byzantine Greek *πηδώτης (*pēdṓtēs, “helmsman”), from Ancient Greek πηδόν (pēdón, “blade of an oar, oar”), hence also Ancient and Modern Greek πηδάλιον (pēdálion, “rudder”).

der

(aviation) A person who is in charge of the controls of an aircraft.


pilot

pilot (nominative singular)
piloti (nominative plural)
pilotové (nominative plural)
pilota (genitive singular)
pilotů (genitive plural)
pilotovi (dative singular)
pilotu (dative singular)
pilotům (dative plural)
pilota (accusative singular)
piloty (accusative plural)
pilote (singular vocative)
piloti (plural vocative)
pilotové (plural vocative)
pilotovi (locative singular)
pilotu (locative singular)
pilotech (locative plural)
pilotem (instrumental singular)
piloty (instrumental plural)


pilot

id-noun

pilot (plural pilot-pilot, first-person possessive pilotku, second-person possessive pilotmu, third-person possessive pilotnya)

pilot-pilot (plural)
pilotku (first-person possessive)
pilotmu (possessive second-person)
pilotnya (possessive third-person)

Internationalism, borrowed from English pilot, from Middle French pilot, pillot, from Italian pilota, piloto, older also pedotta, pedot(t)o (the form in pil- is probably influenced by pileggiare (“to sail, navigate”)); ultimately from unattested Byzantine Greek *πηδώτης (*pēdṓtēs, “helmsman”), from Ancient Greek πηδόν (pēdón, “blade of an oar, oar”).

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


pilot

piloten (definite singular)
piloter (indefinite plural)
pilotene (definite plural)


pilot

piloten (definite singular)
pilotar (indefinite plural)
pilotane (definite plural)


Christmas tree

(aviation, historical) A type of alert area constructed by the Strategic Air Command of the United States Air Force during the Cold War.


jet

Borrowed from French jet (“spurt”, literally “a throw”), from Old French get, giet, from Vulgar Latin *iectus, jectus, from Latin iactus (“a throwing, a throw”), from iacere (“to throw”). See abject, ejaculate, gist, jess, jut. Cognate with Spanish echar.

bor

(aviation) A type of airplane using jet engines rather than propellers.


apron

Rebracketing of napron (a napron → an apron), from Middle English naperoun, napron, apron, from Old French napperon, diminutive of nappe (“tablecloth”), from Latin mappa (“napkin”). For other similar cases of rebracketing, see adder, daffodil, newt, nickname, orange, trickle, umpire.

A hard surface bordering a structure or area.

(aviation) The paved area of an airport, especially the area where aircraft park away from a terminal.


apron

id-noun

apron (plural apron-apron, first-person possessive apronku, second-person possessive apronmu, third-person possessive apronnya)

apron-apron (plural)
apronku (first-person possessive)
apronmu (possessive second-person)
apronnya (possessive third-person)

Internationalism, borrowed from English apron.

(aviation) the paved area of an airport, especially the area where aircraft park away from a terminal.


apron

head

apron (definite accusative apronu, plural apronlar)

apronu (accusative definite)
apronlar (plural)

(aviation) apron (The paved area of an airport, especially the area where aircraft park away from a terminal)


parachute

Borrowed from French parachute, from para- (“protection against”) (as in parasol) and chute (“fall”).

(aviation) A device, generally constructed from fabric, that is designed to employ air resistance to control the fall of an object or person, causing them to float instead of falling.

valskerm

device designed to control the fall of an object or person


parachute

→ Azerbaijani: paraşüt

→ Albanian: parashutë

desctree

→ Dutch: parachute
→ Papiamentu: parachüt

→ English: parachute

→ Ottoman Turkish: پاراشوت (paraşüt)

Turkish: paraşüt

→ Russian: парашю́т (parašút)
→ Armenian: պարաշյուտ (parašyut)
→ Kazakh: парашют (paraşüt)

From para- (“protection against”) + chute (“fall”).

af

En dessous il y a les godes et les plugs, rangés par taille sur deux étagères: deux gros plugs, quatre petits, quatre godes doubles, huit godes simples. En dessous il y a le petit matériel, accroché à des clous: cinq paires de pinces à seins différentes, des pinces à linge, un parachute pour les couilles, tin collier de chien, deux cagoules, une en cuir, une en latex, six cockrings, en acier, en cuir, simples ou avec serre-couilles incorporé, deux étuis à bite […]

1996, Guillaume Dustan, Dans ma chambre [In My Room], Paris: POL, page 71; quoted in David Caron, My Father and I: The Marais and the Queerness of Community, Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2009, →ISBN, page 106:

Below there are the dildos and plugs, ranging in size on two shelves: two big plugs, four small, four double-dildos, eight simple dildos. Below there is the small equipment, hung on nails: five pairs of different nipple clamps, clothes pegs, a parachute for the balls, a dog collar, two hoods, one leather, one latex, six cockrings, in steel, in leather, simple or with built-in ball clamps, two cock-sleeves […]

(BDSM) parachute (scrotum collar from which weights can be hung)


mast

From Middle English mast, from Old English mæst (“mast”), from Proto-West Germanic *mast, from Proto-Germanic *mastaz (“mast, sail-pole”), from Proto-Indo-European *mazdos (“pole, mast”). Cognate with Dutch mast, German Mast, and via Indo-European with Latin mālus, Russian мост (most, “bridge”), Irish adhmad.

der

(nautical, communication, aviation) A tall, slim post or tower, usually tapering upward, used to support, for example, sails or observation platforms on a ship, the main rotor of a helicopter, flags, floodlights, meteorological instruments, or communications equipment, such as an aerial, usually supported by guy-wires (except in the case of a helicopter).


phi trường

[fi˧˧ t͡ɕɨəŋ˨˩]

[fɪj˧˧ ʈɨəŋ˦˩]

[fɪj˧˧ ʈɨəŋ˨˩]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 飛 (“to fly”) and 場 (“field”). Compare Chinese 飛機場／飞机场 (fēijīchǎng), 機場／机场 (jīchǎng, “airport”).

zh-l

飛機場／飞机场 (fēijīchǎng)


vector

Learned borrowing from Latin vector (“carrier, transporter”), from vehō (“I carry, I transport, I bear”), also ultimately the root of English vehicle.
The “person or entity that passes along an urban legend or other meme” sense derives from the disease sense.
The mathematics sense was coined by Irish mathematician and astronomer William Rowan Hamilton in 1846.

coin

I was told to fly out on a vector of 100 degrees to meet a strong plot of aircraft 30 miles from the coast.

2017, Mark Chambers, Tony Holmes, Nakajima B5N ‘Kate’ and B6N ‘Jill’ Units, page 32:

(aviation) A chosen course or direction for motion, as of an aircraft.

курс

aviation: chosen course or direction for motion


gear

en-noun

gear (countable and uncountable, plural gears)

From Middle English gere, a borrowing from Old Norse gervi, from Proto-Germanic *garwijaną (“to prepare”). See also adjective yare, yar from the same root via Old English.

der

gear-up landing

Get the gear down quick!


primary

/ˈpɹaɪˌmɛɹi/

Borrowed from Latin prīmārius (“of the first (rank); chief, principal; excellent”), from prīmus (first; whence the English adjective prime) + -ārius (whence the English suffix -ary); compare the French primaire, primer, and premier. Doublet of premier.

bor

(aviation) A radar return from an aircraft (or other object) produced solely by the reflection of the radar beam from the aircraft's skin, without additional information from the aircraft's transponder.


cola

Inherited from Vulgar Latin coda, from Latin cauda, or from its diminutive caudula. Cognate to French queue and Italian coda.


turnaround

en-noun

turnaround (countable and uncountable, plural turnarounds)

(aviation, aerospace) Preparations for takeoff, such as loading and servicing.


drone

→ Asturian: dron

→ Spanish: dron

→ Italian: drone

→ Punjabi: ਡ੍ਰੋਨ (ḍron)

→ Polish: dron

→ Portuguese: drone

From Middle English drane, from Old English drān, from Proto-West Germanic *drānu, from Proto-Germanic *drēniz, *drēnuz, *drenô (“an insect, drone”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrēn- (“bee, drone, hornet”).
Cognate with:
* Dutch dar (“male bee or wasp”),
* Low German drone (“drone”),
* German Drohne, dialectal German Dräne, Trehne, Trene (“drone”),
* Danish drone (“drone”),
* Swedish drönje, drönare (“drone”).
The etymology of the sense of "remote-controlled aircraft" is disputed; theories include early military UAVs dumbly flying on preset paths.

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Several images of the compound were obtained via a drone overflight.

One team member launched a camera drone over the Third Pole.

An atomic tested Flying Fortress will make a nonstop flight from Florida, and from the time the first engine kicks over until the last propeller stops spinning at Bolling, no hands will touch the controls. A radio controlled drone, it will make the journey with its mother ship, another Fortress, as part of the Experimental Guided Missiles Group contribution to the demonstration.

1948 September 20, “Air Force Day”, in U.S. Air Services, page 6:

The United Nations is setting up a unit to investigate American drone strikes and other targeted killings of terrorist suspects, Ben Emmerson, the United Nations special rapporteur on counterterrorism and human rights, said Thursday.

2012 October 25, Scott Shane, “Drone Strikes to Be Investigated”, in New York Times:

A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.

2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, in The Economist, volume 405, number 8813, page 3 (Technology Quarterly):

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:

In April, as an Air Canada Jazz flight was landing at Trudeau Airport, a drone came so close the pilot was able to identify it as a quadcopter.

2017 October 17, Christina Caron, “After Drone Hits Plane in Canada, New Fears About Air Safety”, in New York Times:

NR made extensive use of drones, helicopters and a team of divers to inspect the flood-damaged section of embankment that forced the closure of one of the lines into Drax from February 6-April 20.

2020 May 20, Paul Stephen, “NR beats floods to secure tracks to Drax”, in Rail, page 58, photo caption:

Indeed, referring to his drone murder extermination campaign Obama bragged: "I'm really good at killing people!" Those are Obama's own words!

2021, Francis A. Boyle, World Politics, Human Rights, and International Law, page 9:

(metonymically): An aircraft operated by remote control, especially an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).

The van is locally referred to as "a drone" because it is compact and stable under extreme conditions. It is also very fast. Technically though, it is a Toyota Hiace, which is usually used for commercial purposes.

2021 February 4, Alex Mugasha, “Why Uganda's security agencies have fallen in love with the "Drone" van”, in Nile Post:

He has been arrested several times, transported in drone vans and brutalized in various detention facilities.

2021 February 4, Kakwenza Rukirabashaija, “Horror inside a kidnap drone”, in The Observer:

The Toyota Hiace is a light commercial van that can be used as a minibus, a taxi, or even an ambulance. But in Uganda, the "drone" has a sinister reputation. Chris Atukwasize, a cartoonist at the Daily Monitor newspaper, dubbed it the #WheelsOfSteal and rendered it as a skull: brake lights dripping blood, its front grille a row of teeth, and hands plastered behind its tinted back windows, pleading for help.

2021 March 3, Liam Taylor, “They came in plainclothes with guns: 'Abducted' by Uganda's army”, in Al Jazeera:

Earlier this week, Deputy Speaker of Parliament Thomas Tayebwa summoned the Prime Minister Robinah Nabbanja together with the Ministers of Security and Internal Affairs and parliamentary whips to address the said return of drones on the streets.

2022 October 2, Sam Waswa, “UPDF Probes Drone Raid at Journalist's Home”, in Chimp Reports:

A minibus van, often numberless and dubbed the 'drone', gained notoriety for kidnaps and disappearances.

2022 October 20, Albert K Awedoba, Andreas Mehler, Benedikt Kamski, David Sebudubudu, Africa Yearbook, volume 18, →ISBN, page 419:

(Uganda) A Toyota HiAce or a similar van, especially one used by Ugandan state agents to kidnap opposition members.