aircraft
Machines that fly
Aircraft is a broad term for any vehicle designed to travel through the air, encompassing airplanes, helicopters, gliders, and drones.
The word functions as both singular and plural: one aircraft, several aircraft.
Military and aviation contexts favor this term over more specific words, giving it a somewhat formal or technical register.
Commercial planes carrying passengers are aircraft, but so is a hot air balloon or a hang glider.
One who steers aircraft
- cockpitPilot's control compartment
- hangarAircraft storage structure
- runwayPaved path for planes
- takeoffDeparture or parody
landing · fuselage · propeller · aileron · rudder · elevator · flaps · altimeter
One who engages in combat
- bomberExplosive-delivery aircraft or saboteur
- reconnaissanceInformation-gathering before action
- stealthSecret, undetected movement
- droneUnmanned flying machine
helicopter · gunship · tanker · transport · carrier · squadron · sortie · mission
American aircraft manufacturer
- AirbusEuropean aircraft manufacturer
- jetlinerLarge commercial passenger aircraft
- widebodyBroad-hulled aircraft type
- long-haulCovering great distances
economy · business · first-class · galley · transatlantic · transpacific · seatbelt · tray-table
Vessel for transporting goods
- holdMaintain in grasp
- palletsFlat freight platforms
- shippingTransporting goods to destinations
- logisticsCoordination of complex activities
courier · loading · unloading · freight · container · bulk · payload · manifest
Propulsion-driven spacecraft
- shuttleShort-distance transport
- capsuleEnclosed dose container
- orbitCurved celestial path
- satelliteOrbiting celestial body
astronaut · cosmonaut · launchpad · propulsion · re-entry · spaceplane · microgravity · docking
pilot
One who steers aircraft
takeoff · landing · fuselage · propeller · aileron · rudder · elevator · flaps · altimeter · altitude
fighter
One who engages in combat
- bomberExplosive-delivery aircraft or saboteur
- reconnaissanceInformation-gathering before action
- stealthSecret, undetected movement
drone · helicopter · gunship · tanker · transport · carrier · squadron · sortie · mission · radar
Boeing
American aircraft manufacturer
- AirbusEuropean aircraft manufacturer
- jetlinerLarge commercial passenger aircraft
- widebodyBroad-hulled aircraft type
long-haul · economy · business · first-class · galley · transatlantic · transpacific · seatbelt · tray-table · boarding
freighter
Vessel for transporting goods
logistics · courier · loading · unloading · freight · container · bulk · payload · manifest · FedEx
rocket
Propulsion-driven spacecraft
satellite · astronaut · cosmonaut · launchpad · propulsion · re-entry · spaceplane · microgravity · docking · booster
- aviationairports, flying, flight, airplanes, jets
- airplane hangarplane, jet, helicopter, blimp, zeppelin
- aviation museumplanes, helicopters, jets, fighter jets, bombers
- High Altitudealtitude sickness, hypoxia, oxygen deprivation, acclimatization, death zone
- traded goodscommodities, raw materials, consumer goods, gold, silver
- War Museumsmilitary artifacts, military vehicles, war memorials, memorial walls, war photography
aircraftsubmarine
Underwater naval craft
submersible · bathyscaphe · watercraft · ship · boat
- aircraft noiseSound from flying machines
- aircraft carrierWarship with flight deck
- military aircraftArmed forces' aerial vehicles
- model aircraftMiniature airplane representation
- light aircraftCompact, low-weight airplane
- anti-aircraft gunsWeapons targeting airborne threats