(gear or hook)
41aircraft arresting hook — A device fitted to an aircraft to engage arresting gear. Also called tail hook. See also aircraft arresting system …
42aircraft arresting hook — A device fitted to an aircraft to engage the arresting gear after a normal or an emergency landing. It is a standard fit for most carrier based aircraft, although there are non carrier based aircraft equipped with an arresting hook …
43Hand gear — Hand Hand (h[a^]nd), n. [AS. hand, hond; akin to D., G., & Sw. hand, OHG. hant, Dan. haand, Icel. h[ o]nd, Goth. handus, and perh. to Goth. hin[thorn]an to seize (in comp.). Cf. {Hunt}.] 1. That part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in …
44arresting gear — noun : a series of rather widely spaced parallel wire cables held taut by strong springs and extending across the flight deck of an aircraft carrier, one such cable by being caught by the arrester hook of an airplane in the process of landing… …
45aircraft arresting gear — A device used to engage hook equipped aircraft to absorb the forward momentum of a routine or emergency landing or aborted takeoff. See also aircraft arresting system …
46fishing gear — the equipment used for fishing, e.g. gillnet, handline, hook and line, harpoon, seine, longline, midwater trawl, purse seine, rod and reel, traps, trawl, spears, etc. but not vessels …
47aircraft arresting gear — A device used to engage hook equipped aircraft to absorb the forward momentum of a routine or an emergency landing or an aborted takeoff …
48Undercarriage — This article is about aircraft landing gear. For the Devin the Dude album, see Landing Gear. Undercarriage Undercarriage of a Boeing 777 300 …
49Deceleron — A U.S. Navy A 6E Intruder approaches for a landing on the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) in 1980, with its decelerons and tail hook deployed. A deceleron, or split aileron, was developed in the late 1940s by Northrop originally for use on the… …
50Compass — This article is about the direction finding instrument used in navigation. For other uses, see Compass (disambiguation). A simple dry magnetic pocket compass …
