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Ferry flight
Aviation; Airplanes & equipment
A flight for the purpose of (1) returning an aircraft to base; (2) delivering an aircraft from one location to another; (3) moving an aircraft to and from a maintenance base. Ferry flights, under ...
Fairing
Aviation; Airplanes & equipment
An added streamlining structure or auxiliary member, most often of light metal, whose only purpose is to reduce drag. Fairings are not load-bearing and, therefore, are not meant to carry any ...
Fin
Aviation; Airplanes & equipment
The fixed part of a vertical airfoil that controls the yaw of an aircraft; the movable part being the RUDDER. Sometime referred to as Vertical Stabilizer.
Flap
Aviation; Airplanes & equipment
A movable, usually hinged AIRFOIL set in the trailing edge of an aircraft wing, designed to increase LIFT or DRAG by changing the CAMBER of the wing or used to slow an aircraft during landing by ...
Firewall
Aviation; Airplanes & equipment
A fire-resistant bulkhead that isolates the engine from other parts of an airplane's structure.
Flaperon
Aviation; Airplanes & equipment
A control surface combining the functions of a FLAP and an AILERON.
Fishtailing
Aviation; Airplanes & equipment
A rudder-controlled side-to-side (yawing) motion to reduce air speed, generally prior to landing.
