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71Drop tank — A 330 US gallons (1,200 L) Sargent Fletcher drop tank being moved across the flight deck of an Aircraft carrier In aeronautics, a drop tank (external tank, wing tank, or belly tank) is used to describe auxiliary fuel tanks externally carried …
72Conformal fuel tank — An F 15E Strike Eagle fitted with conformal fuel tanks under the wing roots …
73Yoke (aircraft) — Aircraft Yoke The W shaped control yoke of a Boeing 737. A yoke, alternatively known as control column, is a device used for piloting in most fixed wing aircraft.[1] Contents …
74Cruciform tail — BAe Jetstream 31 with cruciform tail The cruciform tail is an aircraft empennage configuration which, when viewed from the aircraft s front or rear, looks much like a cross. The usual arrangement is to have the horizontal stabilizer intersect the …
75NACA cowling — Curtiss AT 5A Hawk with NACA cowling at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory, October 1928 …
76Course Deviation Indicator — (CDI) is an avionics instrument used in aircraft navigation to determine an aircraft s lateral position in relation to a track. If the location of the aircraft is to the left of course, the needle deflects to the right, and vice versa. Contents 1 …
77Oleo strut — An oleo strut is an air–oil hydraulic shock absorber used on the landing gear of most large aircraft.[1] It cushions the impacts of landing and while taxiing[2] and damps out vertical oscillations …
78Radar altimeter — A radar altimeter, radio altimeter, low range radio altimeter (LRRA) or simply RA measures altitude above the terrain presently beneath an aircraft or spacecraft. This type of altimeter provides the distance between the plane and the ground… …
79Deceleron — 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… …
80Transponder (aviation) — Transponder Cessna ARC RT 359A transponder (beige box), beneath Bendix/King KY197 VHF communication radio. In this example, the transponder code selected is 1200 for VFR flight. The green IDENT button is marked ID . A transponder (short for… …
