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air‧craft S2 W2 /ˈeəkrɑːft $ ˈerkræft/ noun [COUNTABLE](plural aircraft)
a plane or other vehicle that can fly
⇨ light aircraft
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THESAURUS
▪plane (also aeroplane British English), airplane American English a vehicle that flies in the air and has wings and at least one engine :
　 ▪ The plane took off from John F Kennedy airport.
　 ▪ a passenger plane carrying over 300 people
▪aircraft a plane or other vehicle that can fly. Aircraft sounds more formal than plane :
　 ▪ Smoking is not allowed on board the aircraft.
　 ▪ He was trained to fly military aircraft.
▪jet a fast plane with a jet engine :
　 ▪ She owns a private jet.
▪airliner a large plane that carries people :
　 ▪ a commercial airliner

noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
aircraft carrier
aircraft/plane wreckage
▪ The major task is now to remove the aircraft wreckage from the accident site.
combat aircraft
▪ Very few combat aircraft have been destroyed.
jet fighter/aircraft/airliner
▪ a squadron of F-6 jet fighter aircraft
light aircraft
motor/car/aircraft etc spares
▪ a shortage of aircraft spares
stealth bomber/aircraft/fighter etc (=a plane made using this system)
traffic/aircraft/engine etc noise
▪ It was peaceful there, with no traffic noise at all.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADJECTIVE
civil
▪ A pleasing publication which shows the diversity of military and civil aircraft and airlines that have used this airport.
▪ No civil aircraft now stayed in Phnom Penh overnight, since Khmer Rouge rocket attacks on the airport were frequent.
▪ Three miles south the Imperial War Museum has an exciting collection of military and civil aircraft at Duxford airfield.
▪ This is not usual in civil aircraft systems though it is occasionally done in some military aircraft.
▪ A soldier who feared flying was fined £600 yesterday for endangering a civil aircraft and disobeying the captain's orders.
▪ The orders for civil aircraft alone could not sustain the large number of smallish firms that comprised the industry.
▪ At Duxford airfield you can see the Imperial War Museum's collection of military and civil aircraft.
▪ BAe is a world leader in designing and making wings for civil or military aircraft.
civilian
▪ The military said the distances between the military and civilian aircraft more than met air-traffic-control separation standards.
▪ J., who joined in a news conference with Kennedy and other lawmakers to denounce the downing of the civilian aircraft.
▪ S.-based civilian aircraft flying missions for the anti-Castro organization, Brothers to the Rescue.
▪ We must be clear, this shooting of civilian aircraft out of the air was a flagrant violation of international law.
▪ Reported near collisions involving military and civilian aircraft have dropped dramatically in the 1990s.
commercial
▪ The company, the world's largest manufacturer of commercial aircraft, has experienced five straight years of record orders.
▪ S.-made commercial aircraft competition.
▪ As in commercial aircraft, going it alone was never a realistic option.
▪ In recent years, the group has claimed on average about 30 % of the global market for large commercial aircraft orders.
▪ Trading losses from commercial aircraft mushroomed last year from £37 million to £337 million.
▪ The Navy analysis concluded that 15-inch-thick concrete runways are needed for commercial aircraft.
▪ The range of services already includes automatic telephones for commercial passenger aircraft.
large
▪ There was therefore, unusually, a large number of aircraft movements.
▪ In recent years, the group has claimed on average about 30 % of the global market for large commercial aircraft orders.
▪ It was also to be the largest aircraft ever built in Britain.
▪ Some freight carriers added flights; others simply used larger aircraft.
▪ Flying boats were larger than most aircraft of the time.
▪ But what if a large passenger aircraft has to be fuelled ready for flight?
▪ In more complicated cases or where a larger aircraft is concerned the investigating team can comprise up to a dozen investigators.
▪ At 0700, they plotted a large group of aircraft about 130 miles away and closing fast.
light
▪ In the light aircraft groups, there is a similarity of performance.
▪ All gliders and light aircraft have to recover satisfactorily with the standard method.
▪ Furthermore if Grimbergen is closed, where do the present 150 plus light aircraft presently based there go?
▪ Also with Government loans, another company is building the Lear-Fan light executive aircraft near Belfast.
▪ Today, Cessna is out of the light aircraft market for ever and Piper is on its knees.
▪ This may well be one of those rare occasions when light aircraft pilots have the opportunity to shape something that affects them.
▪ Ivars has built over the years a series of light aircraft, most employing a faithful Cirrus Minor I engine.
▪ In some of their light and not-so-light aircraft seats are added in a manner guaranteed to tempt the irresponsible.
military
▪ A pleasing publication which shows the diversity of military and civil aircraft and airlines that have used this airport.
▪ Bethesda, Maryland-based Lockheed makes military aircraft, space systems, missiles and electronics systems.
▪ Three miles south the Imperial War Museum has an exciting collection of military and civil aircraft at Duxford airfield.
▪ Government expenditures can reabsorb these resources in the production of guided missiles, military aircraft, and new schools and highways.
▪ This is not usual in civil aircraft systems though it is occasionally done in some military aircraft.
▪ The military said the distances between the military and civilian aircraft more than met air-traffic-control separation standards.
▪ The technology of military aircraft is distinct from the civilian variety.
▪ We invented the submarine and were the first to purchase a military aircraft.
new
▪ This left Boeing in the odd position of undertaking to sell new Airbus aircraft.
▪ If so, are we passengers willing to pay substantially higher fares so that the airlines can continuously purchase new aircraft?
▪ The catch here is that on the new aircraft it costs more than £20,000.
▪ Further into the future, new forms of aircraft may work just fine on short runways.
▪ The new aircraft will enable the airline to boost passenger capacity by 13 percent a year, Tajudin said.
▪ Therefore, with demand outstripping supply for new aircraft production, existing in-service aircraft are replaced more slowly.
other
▪ I executed a hard right turn, but could not see any other aircraft in my vicinity.
▪ Hearing no other radio communication and seeing no other aircraft to his left or right, he turned finals.
▪ He was seen to wave that he was O.K. to one of the other aircraft.
▪ Like that other Magister this aircraft is supposed to have an odd, unpleasant nose-down pitching diversion with excess sideslip.
▪ He was unaware of the other aircraft until both began to veer off the side of the runway.
▪ There was no other sign of wreckage of any other aircraft.
▪ Within six seconds of the collision, one fell to earth among other aircraft, just below the point of impact.
▪ We then followed the River Orwell to the bridge before going home in the distance we could see other aircraft.
small
▪ The count simply abandoned the small, expensive aircraft and led them to the car.
▪ Several other smaller aircraft units from North Island will be on board the Nimitz and its escorts.
▪ Naturally, if a small aircraft is overbooked consistently, it might rate early loading.
▪ If small aircraft were routed elsewhere, Kamman said, Lindbergh Field would have more runway space for larger airliners.
▪ I had to show the local mechanic what to do; he knew nothing about small aircraft.
▪ Jessica took her first flight in a small aircraft when she was 6 years old.
▪ The seaplanes that do remain are small aircraft, not generally used for scheduled passenger services.
▪ The Beech 1900, a twin-engine turboprop seating 19, is among the smaller commuter aircraft in regular service.
NOUN
accident
▪ There remain the specialists who look after the flight recorder side of aircraft accident investigation.
▪ The truth is that aircraft accident investigation should be carried out in a completely impartial and objective manner.
▪ Ernest had been killed in 1940 in an aircraft accident when on duty as a Drogue Operator.
▪ The regulations governing the investigation of aircraft accidents had been unchanged since 1969.
carrier
▪ It is interested in MIG-31 high-altitude interceptors, more modern submarines and help in building aircraft carriers.
▪ Short of an aircraft carrier or nuclear weapons, nothing can bring hurt like a cruiser.
▪ As I came up out of the trough, the wave was pouting out a lip like the deck of an aircraft carrier.
▪ Consider a film clip showing an aircraft carrier at sea.
▪ While a naval officer, he invented and designed the first-ever aircraft carrier, the Angus.
fighter
▪ None the less, research and development in post-war fighter aircraft went forward at a brisk pace and over a wide range of options.
▪ The controls and instrumentation of a modern fighter aircraft, for example, are bafflingly complex.
industry
▪ An aircraft industry, which was started by Short Bros. and Harland, now has Government aid.
▪ The aircraft industry alone accounted for one-third of expenditure.
▪ Timothy Ormerod Limited make precision parts for the car and aircraft industries.
▪ It was also the cradle of the nation's aircraft industry, starting with A V Roe's historic flight in 1908.
jet
▪ Post-war development of parachutes acting as brakes on jet aircraft are also covered in this rarely written about subject.
▪ It also flies three routes in the Midwest, under contract to Delta and Northwest, using 70-seat jet aircraft.
▪ September 4: Pioneering jet aircraft.
maintenance
▪ Applications of expert systems in aircraft maintenance include: 1.
▪ Bridge the expanding number of technologies used in aircraft maintenance 6.
▪ The reasons for using expert systems technology in aircraft maintenance are explained.
▪ Such systems offer scope to allow aircraft maintenance engineers to transfer between aircraft types more easily.
▪ All light aircraft maintenance workshops would most certainly have one for synchronizing and timing port and starboard magnetos on piston engines.
▪ More than that, the expert systems technology is the only vehicle that can integrate cost effectively different aspects of aircraft maintenance.
▪ Under such circumstances a substantial increase in aircraft maintenance workload prevails.
maker
▪ The aircraft maker had warned Wall Street earlier this week that it expected the loss because of production problems.
▪ Earlier, Kok said he wanted Daimler-Benz to contribute more to a rescue package for the aircraft maker.
transport
▪ The operation had not gone without hitches because adequate amphibious shipping and transport aircraft were not yet available.
▪ Airbus Military Company is also expected this week to receive new orders from Europea governments for 218 A400M military transport aircraft.
▪ There is an illusion of sitting high above the ground, almost as if it was a transport aircraft.
▪ Ventures have included flying tourists in transport aircraft.
▪ The Hercules transport aircraft is taking food and medicine to the besieged city of Sarajevo.
▪ Giant Hercules transport aircraft were touching down at Aldergrove Airport every few minutes.
VERB
fly
▪ He flew the fire-fighting aircraft based at Viseu.
▪ Only five pilots flew the aircraft.
▪ In March the manufacturer's test pilot flew the aircraft for its annual inspection check flight.
▪ No decision has been made regarding which type of aircraft she will fly.
▪ Powers flew the aircraft back to San Marcos on the rear Rotax.
▪ Carey Lohrenz, the F-14 Tomcat pilot whose grounding was the impetus for the probe, was unqualified to fly carrier-based aircraft.
▪ By this I mean large, fast circuits similar to those flown by a conventional aircraft.
▪ A person who is scared of ballooning will nearly always fly the aircraft on to the ground instead of making well held-off landings.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
model aircraft/train/car etc
▪ A model car doesn't have to contain all the elements of an internal combustion engine in order to work as a toy!
▪ Andrew has been prompted to make a model car like his dad's.
▪ Corgi sent a full range of their model cars, including Rolls Royces and Porsches.
▪ Genghis, assembled out of model car parts, weighed only 3. 6 pounds.
▪ I built model cars when I was younger.
▪ Loafers that looked more like model cars.
▪ Some people like model trains or football.
▪ The sum was raised at a model aircraft flying display that was all but washed out through appalling weather.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Acceleration two up, with half tanks, was smooth and sure and the aircraft left the ground at about 30 knots.
▪ Eventually a man from the tower arrived, and a little bus came to take us to the aircraft.
▪ I was supposed to be learning how to be an aircraft commander in an air-assault company.
▪ Officials fear glass bottles could break and injure visitors or, after the show, damage aircraft.
▪ Our aircraft was straight, steady, holding altitude, heading away from Hainan when the accident occurred.
▪ Some visiting aircraft engineers having arrived just to collect a specific part, spend hours just browsing through the stock.
▪ The aircraft was burning well and this, plus exploding ammunition, drove me out.
▪ The design and development of each aircraft is described in turn using contemporary film footage.