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