air·craft (âr kr ft )n. pl. aircraft A machine or device, such as an airplane, helicopter, glider, or dirigible, that is capable of atmospheric flight. |
aircraft
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pl -craft any machine capable of flying, such as a glider or aeroplane
Aircraft flying machines collectively, 1850.
See: inactive aircraft inventory; program aircraft; reserve aircraft; supporting aircraft; unit aircraft.
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| Noun | 1. |  aircraft - a vehicle that can fly fly-by, flypast, flyover - a flight at a low altitude (usually of military aircraft) over spectators on the ground 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) stabilisation, stabilization - the act of making something (as a vessel or aircraft) less likely to overturn aircraft engine - the engine that powers and aircraft bay - a compartment in an aircraft used for some specific purpose; "he opened the bomb bay" cabin - the enclosed compartment of an aircraft or spacecraft where passengers are carried cockpit - compartment where the pilot sits while flying the aircraft craft - a vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space cruise missile - an unmanned aircraft that is a self-contained bomb fuel system - equipment in a motor vehicle or aircraft that delivers fuel to the engine 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 nose - a front that resembles a human nose (especially the front of an aircraft); "the nose of the rocket heated up on reentry" skeletal frame, underframe, skeleton, frame - the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape; "the building has a steel skeleton" skin - an outer surface (usually thin); "the skin of an airplane" stealth aircraft - an aircraft designed in accordance with technology that makes detection by radar difficult 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 fleet - group of aircraft operating together under the same ownership airplane pilot, pilot - someone who is licensed to operate an aircraft in flight brownout, dimout, blackout - darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft) touch down - come or bring (a plane) to a landing; "the plane touched down at noon" |
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