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pants

Aviation; Airplanes & equipment

A popular word for streamlined, non-load bearing fairings to cover landing wheels. Also sometimes called Spats or, when fully enclosing the wheel struts, Skirts.

precision approach radar (PAR)

Aviation; Airplanes & equipment

A ground-radar-based instrument approach providing both horizontal and vertical guidance

The path of aircraft traffic around an airfield, at an established height and direction. At tower-controlled fields the pattern is supervised by radio (or, in non-radio or emergency conditions by red ...

payload

Aviation; Airplanes & equipment

Anything that an aircraft carries beyond what is required for its operation during flight, theoretically that from which revenue is derived, such as cargo and passengers.

pilot in command (PIC)

Aviation; Airplanes & equipment

The pilot responsible for the operation and safety of an aircraft during flight time.

pitch

Aviation; Airplanes & equipment

(1) Of the three axes in flight, this specifies the vertical action, the up-and-down movement. Compare ROLL and YAW. (2) The angle of a propeller or rotor blade in relation to its arc; also the ...

pitot tube

Aviation; Airplanes & equipment

More accurately but less popularly used, Pitot-Static Tube, a small tube most often mounted on the outward leading edge of an airplane wing (out of the propeller stream) that measures the impact ...