aircraft navigation lights
1Aircraft landing lights — Landing lights are lights used on aircraft to illuminate the terrain and runway ahead during takeoff and landing.OverviewAlmost all modern aircraft are equipped with landing lights if they are intended and approved for nighttime operations.… …
2aircraft external lights — All lights fitted on the exterior of the aircraft. These consist of navigation lights, anticollision lights, and landing and taxiing lights. Other external lights may be wing scan lights. Military aircraft may also be fitted with formation lights …
3navigation lights — Colored lights on an aircraft used at night to show the direction the aircraft is moving. A red light is installed on the port (left) wing tip, a green light on the starboard (right) wing tip, and a white light on the tail of the aircraft. The… …
4navigation lights — plural noun a set of lights shown by a ship or aircraft at night to indicate its position and orientation …
5Navigation light — The winglet and red navigation light on the port (left) wing of a South African Airways Boeing 747 400 aircraft A navigation light is a colored source of illumination on an aircraft, spacecraft, or waterborne vessel, used to signal a craft s… …
6navigation — navigational, adj. /nav i gay sheuhn/, n. 1. the act or process of navigating. 2. the art or science of plotting, ascertaining, or directing the course of a ship, aircraft, or guided missile. [1520 30; < L navigation (s. of navigatio) a voyage.… …
7Navigation — This article is about determination of position and direction on or above the surface of the earth. For other uses, see Navigation (disambiguation). Table of geography, hydrography, and navigation, from the 1728 Cyclopaedia. Navigation is the… …
8navigation light — noun light on an airplane that indicates the plane s position and orientation; red light on the left (port) wing tip and green light on the right (starboard) wing tip • Hypernyms: ↑light, ↑light source • Part Holonyms: ↑airplane, ↑aeroplane, ↑ …
9navigation — noun 1 movement of ships, aircraft, etc. ADJECTIVE ▪ accurate ▪ safe ▪ inland, ocean (esp. AmE), river, sea (esp. BrE), underwater …
10Aircraft dope — 2699 a World War I Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2 finished in a clear (non coloured) dope Aircraft dope is a plasticised lacquer that is applied to fabric covered aircraft. It tautens and stiffens fabric stretched over airframes and renders them… …
