aircraft

1. associated with:

   • fly-by, flyover, flypast - 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
   • 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
   • airplane pilot, pilot - someone who is licensed to operate an aircraft in flight
   • blackout, brownout, dimout - darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft)
   • aviate, fly, pilot - operate an airplane
   • touch down - come or bring (a plane) to a landing
   • 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
   • sweptback - (especially of aircraft wings) angled rearward from the point of attachment
   • sweptwing - (of an aircraft) having sweptback wings
   is a type of: craft - a vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space
   subtypes:

   • bogey, bogie, bogy - an unidentified (and possibly enemy) aircraft
   • 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
   belongs to: fleet - group of aircraft operating together under the same ownership
   has:

   • aircraft engine - the engine that powers and aircraft
   • 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)
   • frame, skeletal frame, skeleton, underframe - the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape
   • skin - an outer surface (usually thin)

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