anticollision lights
1aircraft 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 …
2external lighting — Lights fitted on the external portions of an airplane. These are normally landing lights, navigation lights, anticollision lights, taxiing lights, wing scan lights, formation lights, etc. See aircraft external lights …
3Disasters — ▪ 2009 Introduction Aviation January 23, Poland. A Spanish built CASA transport plane carrying members of the Polish air force home from a conference on flight safety in Warsaw crashes near the town of Miroslawiec; all 20 aboard are killed …
4Radar — For other uses, see Radar (disambiguation). A long range radar antenna, known as ALTAIR, used to detect and track space objects in conjunction with ABM testing at the Ronald Reagan Test Site on Kwajalein Atoll …
5Xenon flash lamp — A xenon flash lamp is an electric glow discharge lamp designed to produce extremely intense, incoherent, full spectrum white light for very short durations. Construction The lamp comprises a sealed tube, often made of fused quartz, which is… …
6landing light — A high intensity forward facing spotlight that shines on the runway while coming in for a landing and the taxiway while taxiing. It may also be used as an anticollision and antibird beacon. Landing light(s) may be fitted onto the leading edges of …
