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Green light

Aviation; Airplanes & equipment

Approval for landing. A carryover expression from days when aircraft for the most part had no radios, and communication from a control tower was by means of a light-gun that beamed various green, ...

Groundspeed

Aviation; Airplanes & equipment

The actual speed that an aircraft travels over the ground—its "shadow speed"; it combines the aircraft's AIRSPEED and the wind's speed relative to the aircraft's direction of flight.

Gross weight

Aviation; Airplanes & equipment

The total weight of an aircraft when fully loaded, including fuel, cargo, and passengers; aka Takeoff Weight.

A wingless aircraft acquiring its lift from revolving blades driven by an engine about a near-vertical axis. A ROTORCRAFT acquiring its primary motion from engine-driven rotors that accelerate the ...

Gull-wing

Aviation; Airplanes & equipment

Descriptive of wing in frontal view bent as the wing of a seagull; a distinctive shallow, inverted "V" shape—see Stinson SR-10 or inverted gull-wing Vought F4U.

Gyroplane

Aviation; Airplanes & equipment

A rotorcraft whose rotors are not engine-driven, except for initial starting, but are made to rotate by action of the air when the rotorcraft is moving and whose means of propulsion, usually a ...