Airport

Airport

A station, usually consisting of buildings, airfields and runways, used to provide a place for aircraft to take off and land as well as to house commercial services for passengers and on-board staff.

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seaplane

Aviation; Airport

An aircraft that can take off and land in water. The plane usually uses floats or buoyancies.

The Soft Touch System houses a de-activate platform which has proximity sensors for movement and function deactivation and will alert the operator when or if the basket gets too close to the aircraft ...

tannoy systems

Aviation; Airport

A loudspeaker system for sending messages across a large area such as an airport.

threshold

Aviation; Airport

The first part of the runway that accommodates for landing aircraft.

taxiway

Aviation; Airport

A surface / road that allows aircraft traffic to flow between the runway and other areas of the airport such as refuelling and boarding gates.

telematics

Aviation; Airport

The use of a wireless communication to send information about a vehicle or unit to a land station recording the messages / info. For example a vehicle’s fuel level or engine temperature would be sent ...

radio detection and ranging (RADAR)

Aviation; Airport

Radar can detect objects by bouncing radio waves off the object giving speed, altitude and position. Radar is the central communications system used by airport control towers.