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flight service station (FSS)

Aviation; Airplanes & equipment

Air traffic facilities which provide pilot briefing, enroute communications and VFR search and rescue services, assist lost aircraft and aircraft in emergency situations, relay ATC clearances, ...

floatplane

Aviation; Airplanes & equipment

A water-based aircraft with one or more mounted pontoons, as differentiated from a hulled SEAPLANE (Flying Boat), but often used generically.

flying wires

Aviation; Airplanes & equipment

Interplane bracing wires that help support wingloads when the plane is in flight.

Trademark name of a split-flap attached to a wing's trailing edge with a system of tracks and rollers to roll the FLAP backward and downward, increasing the wing area. Named for its inventor, USAAF ...

frise aileron

Aviation; Airplanes & equipment

A type of aileron that has a beveled leading edge projecting beyond its inset hinges. When lowered, it forms an extension of the wing surface; when raised, its nose protrudes below the wing, ...

fuselage

Aviation; Airplanes & equipment

An aircraft's main body structure housing the flight crew, passengers, and cargo and to which the wings, tail and, in most single-engined airplanes, engine are attached. French: fuselé, tapering.

general aviation

Aviation; Airplanes & equipment

That portion of civil aviation which encompasses all facets of aviation except air carriers holding a certificate of public convenience and necessity from the Civil Aeronautics Board and large ...