English language
Toggle Transcript
aircraft::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | craft |
| Has types | heavier-than-air craft, bogey, bogie, cruise missile, bogy, stealth aircraft, lighter-than-air craft |
Examples of aircraft
aircraft
Many travelers with tight schedules gave up on driving and resorted to aircraft.
From the denverpost.com
Four Navy warships were involved, including the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise.
From the chron.com
The tail number is used to connect aircraft to a flight plan filed by the pilot.
From the cnn.com
The Taiwan carrier said it also signed an option for an additional six aircraft.
From the upi.com
Those jobs don't pay as much as aircraft manufacturing wages, but they are jobs.
From the kansas.com
The company has introduced 20 new or derivative aircraft in the last nine years.
From the kansas.com
Passengers were rushed off of the aircraft and we were briefed on the situation.
From the charlotteobserver.com
The shifts in global aviation may affect builders of aircraft as well as buyers.
From the economist.com
If the aircraft was tilting the camera would not photograph directly underneath.
From the telegraph.co.uk
- A vehicle that can fly
- An aircraft is a vehicle which is able to fly by being supported by the air, or in general, the atmosphere of a planet. An aircraft counters the force of gravity by using either static lift or by using the dynamic lift of an airfoil, or in a few cases the downward thrust from jet engines.
- (Aircrafting) Fokker was a Dutch aircraft manufacturer named after its founder, Anthony Fokker. The company operated under several different names, starting out in 1912 in Schwerin, Germany, moving to the Netherlands in 1919. ...
- A vehicle capable of atmospheric flight due to interaction with the air, such as buoyancy or lift
- A flying machine holding in the air using the interaction with air, if it does not involve the interaction of air with land or water surfaces.
- A super-premium grade of fuel marketed in the 1920's for use in airplanes.
- Anything that is designed to be flown in the air. The general term aircraft includes airplanes, helicopters, gliders, airships, balloons and kites. Airplane and aircraft are not synonymous; airplanes are aircraft, but not all aircraft are airplanes.
- Any mechanically driven heavier-than-air flying machine with wings of fixed or variable sweep angle. Subdivision landplane, seaplane (float seaplane and flying boat), amphibian.
- An airplane, helicopter, or other machine capable of flight supported by the atmosphere of the planet.
