Choose a topic, practice it, and we will work on it together in class.
| English | Korean | Example |
|---|---|---|
| fighter jet | ์ ํฌ๊ธฐ | The fighter jet climbed quickly into the clouds. |
| bomber | ํญ๊ฒฉ๊ธฐ | The bomber can fly very long distances without stopping. |
| transport aircraft | ์์ก๊ธฐ | The transport aircraft carried supplies to the island. |
| helicopter | ํฌ๋ฆฌ์ฝฅํฐ / ํฌ๊ธฐ | A helicopter can land almost anywhere. |
| drone | ๋ฌด์ธ๊ธฐ / ๋๋ก | The drone is controlled from a station on the ground. |
| trainer aircraft | ํ๋ จ๊ธฐ | Student pilots fly a trainer aircraft with an instructor. |
| tanker aircraft | ๊ณต์ค๊ธ์ ๊ธฐ | The tanker aircraft refuels fighters in the air. |
| reconnaissance aircraft | ์ ์ฐฐ๊ธฐ | The reconnaissance aircraft takes photos from high altitude. |
| cargo plane | ํ๋ฌผ๊ธฐ | The cargo plane delivered food and medical supplies. |
| aircraft | ํญ๊ณต๊ธฐ | Every aircraft is inspected before each flight. |
| cockpit | ์กฐ์ข ์ / ์กฐ์ข ์ค | The pilot checked every switch in the cockpit. |
| fuselage | ๋์ฒด | The fuselage is the main body of the plane. |
| wing | ๋ ๊ฐ / ์ฃผ์ต | Ice on the wing is dangerous for flying. |
| tail | ๊ผฌ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ฐ / ๋ฏธ์ต | The tail keeps the aircraft stable in flight. |
| landing gear | ์ฐฉ๋ฅ ์ฅ์น / ๋๋ฉ ๊ธฐ์ด | The pilot lowered the landing gear before landing. |
| rudder | ๋ฐฉํฅํ | The rudder turns the nose left or right. |
| aileron | ๋ณด์กฐ๋ ๊ฐ / ์์ผ๋ฌ๋ก | The ailerons make the aircraft roll and turn. |
| flap | ํ๋ฉ / ๊ณ ์๋ ฅ ์ฅ์น | Pilots extend the flaps for takeoff and landing. |
| throttle | ์ค๋กํ / ์ถ๋ ฅ ์กฐ์ ์ฅ์น | She pushed the throttle forward to gain speed. |
| engine | ์์ง | The engine roared as the jet took off. |
| propeller | ํ๋กํ ๋ฌ | The old trainer has a single propeller. |
| canopy | ์บ๋ ธํผ / ์กฐ์ข ์ ๋ฎ๊ฐ | The canopy closed slowly over the pilot's head. |
| instrument panel | ๊ณ๊ธฐํ | The instrument panel shows speed, altitude, and fuel. |
| altimeter | ๊ณ ๋๊ณ | The altimeter shows how high the aircraft is. |
| fuel tank | ์ฐ๋ฃ ํฑํฌ | The fuel tank was full before the long flight. |
| ejection seat | ์ฌ์ถ ์ข์ | The ejection seat can save a pilot's life. |
| parachute | ๋ํ์ฐ | Every pilot learns how to use a parachute. |
| flight suit | ๋นํ๋ณต / ์กฐ์ข ๋ณต | He wore a green flight suit with his name tag. |
| helmet | ํฌ๋ฉง / ๋นํ ํฌ๋ฉง | The helmet protects the pilot's head during flight. |
| oxygen mask | ์ฐ์ ๋ง์คํฌ | Pilots wear an oxygen mask at high altitude. |
| runway | ํ์ฃผ๋ก | The jet waited at the end of the runway. |
| hangar | ๊ฒฉ๋ฉ๊ณ | Mechanics fixed the aircraft inside the hangar. |
| control tower | ๊ด์ ํ | The control tower cleared us for takeoff. |
| taxiway | ์ ๋๋ก | The plane moved slowly along the taxiway. |
| air traffic control | ํญ๊ณต ๊ตํต ๊ด์ | Air traffic control guides every plane near the base. |
| airbase | ๊ณต๊ตฐ ๊ธฐ์ง | The airbase is home to two fighter squadrons. |
| radar | ๋ ์ด๋ | The radar showed an aircraft fifty miles away. |
| takeoff | ์ด๋ฅ | The takeoff was smooth despite the strong wind. |
| landing | ์ฐฉ๋ฅ | A good landing takes practice and patience. |
| altitude | ๊ณ ๋ | We are flying at an altitude of thirty thousand feet. |
| airspeed | ๋๊ธฐ ์๋ / ๋นํ ์๋ | Watch your airspeed carefully during the turn. |
| turbulence | ๋๊ธฐ๋ฅ | We felt strong turbulence over the mountains. |
| pilot | ์กฐ์ข ์ฌ / ํ์ผ๋ฟ | The pilot has flown for over ten years. |
| copilot | ๋ถ์กฐ์ข ์ฌ | The copilot read the checklist out loud. |
| crew | ์น๋ฌด์ | The crew prepared the aircraft for the mission. |
| flight plan | ๋นํ ๊ณํ | File your flight plan before you take off. |
| sortie | ์ถ๊ฒฉ | The squadron flew three training sorties today. |
| formation flying | ํธ๋ ๋นํ | Formation flying requires trust between the pilots. |
| maneuver | ๊ธฐ๋ | The pilot practiced the maneuver again and again. |
| climb | ์์น | The jet began a steep climb after takeoff. |
| descent | ํ๊ฐ / ๊ฐํ | We started our descent toward the airbase. |
| cruise | ์ํญ | The aircraft will cruise at a steady speed. |
| stall | ์ค์ | A stall happens when the wings lose lift. |
| autopilot | ์๋ ์กฐ์ข ์ฅ์น / ์คํ ํ์ผ๋ฟ | The autopilot kept the plane level and steady. |
| navigation | ํญ๋ฒ | Good navigation keeps you on the correct route. |
| checklist | ์ ๊ฒํ / ์ฒดํฌ๋ฆฌ์คํธ | Never skip a single item on the checklist. |
| preflight check | ๋นํ ์ ์ ๊ฒ | The preflight check took about twenty minutes. |
| refueling | ๊ธ์ / ์ฌ๊ธ์ | Refueling in the air takes great skill. |
| simulator | ๋ชจ์ ๋นํ ์ฅ์น / ์๋ฎฌ๋ ์ดํฐ | Cadets practice emergencies in the flight simulator. |
| jet engine | ์ ํธ ์์ง | A jet engine is powerful but very loud. |
| supersonic | ์ด์์ | The fighter can fly at supersonic speed. |
| aviation | ํญ๊ณต / ํญ๊ณตํ | He has loved aviation since he was a child. |