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Aviation glossary
This glossary is about aviation. Parts of speech, definitions in sentence case from Google Search, text-to-speech pronunciation models, images from Wikimedia Commons, automatic translations to French, and authentic example sentences from my brain.
- Airline
- Noun
- An organization providing a regular public service of air transportation on one or more routes.
- Example: The airlines have been cutting their routes. Because of the competitive nature of the airline system.
- fr: Compagnie aérienne
- Airstrip
- Noun
- A strip of ground set aside for the takeoff and landing of aircraft.
- Example: It landed on a tiny airstrip in the forest, skimming the trees as we came down.
- fr: Piste d'atterrissage
- Cargo
- Noun
- Goods carried on a ship, aircraft, or motor vehicle.
- Example: The ship was carrying a cargo of wood.
- fr: Cargaison
- Cockpit
- Noun
- Space reserved for the flight crew of an aircraft
- Example: The cockpit was submerged as the plane nosedived into the water.
- fr: Post de pilotage
- Engine
- Noun
- A machine with moving parts that converts power into motion
- Example: He got into the driving seat and started the engine.
- fr: Moteur
- Flight
- Noun
- The action or process of flying through the air.
- Example: All flights to New York today are delayed because of bad weather.
- fr: Vol
- Fog
- Noun
- Fog is a thick cloud of tiny water droplets at or near Earth’s surface that obscures visibility.
- Example: The fog reduced visibility to a quarter of a mile.
- fr: Brouillard
- Fuselage
- Noun
- The main body of an aircraft.
- Example: The roof of the fuselage at the rear was buckled and charred by fire.
- fr: Fuselage
- Hangar
- Noun
- More or less basic construction intended to house large equipment and certain goods.
- Example: He installed a hangar for his helicopter at his main home.
- fr: Hangar
- Helicopter
- Noun
- Aircraft equipped with one or more horizontal propellers, and which takes off vertically.
- Example: The helicopter was hovering above the building.
- fr: Hélicoptère
- Jet
- Noun
- A rapid stream of liquid or gas forced out of a small opening.
- Example: The jet crash-landed and burst into flames.
- fr: Jet
- Joystick
- Noun
- The control column of an aircraft.
- Example: The pilot gripped the joystick, pulling it back as hard as he could.
- fr: Manette
- Metar
- Noun
- A pilot weather report delivered on a continuous basis.
- Example: A typical METAR contains data for the temperature.
- fr: Metar
- Pilot
- Noun
- A person who operates the flying controls of an aircraft
- Example: He spent seventeen years as an airline pilot.
- fr: Pilote
- Plane
- Noun
- Device able of moving in the air, heavier than air, equipped with wings and a propulsion unit.
- Example: This plane will lane sooner than the helicopter.
- fr: Avion
- Propeller
- Noun
- A piece of aircraft equipment that contains rotating blades, creating engine thrust.
- Example: It was time for her to go and the aircraft propellers coughed into life.
- fr: Hélice
- Rudder
- Noun
- An aircraft surface used to control the yaw movement.
- Example: They could have very quickly taken out the rudder and the propeller of our ship.
- fr: Gouvernail
- Seniority
- Noun
- A privileged position earned by reason of longer service or higher rank.
- Example: Promotions are based on merit and seniority.
- fr: Ancienneté
- Squawk
- Noun
- A four-digit transponder code given to an aircraft by ATC to allow for simple identification of an aircraft in a given region.
- Example: She gave the squawk which we considered a good sign.
- fr: code
- turbulences
- Noun
- Violent or unsteady movement of air or water, or of some other fluid.
- Example: The plane hit quite a bit of turbulence during our flight
- fr: Turbulence
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