English Vocabulary Practice

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Topics โ€บ Military & Aviation English

Air Force & Aircraft

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fighter jet ์ „ํˆฌ๊ธฐ The fighter jet climbed quickly into the clouds.
bomber ํญ๊ฒฉ๊ธฐ The bomber can fly very long distances without stopping.
transport aircraft ์ˆ˜์†ก๊ธฐ The transport aircraft carried supplies to the island.
helicopter ํ—ฌ๋ฆฌ์ฝฅํ„ฐ / ํ—ฌ๊ธฐ A helicopter can land almost anywhere.
drone ๋ฌด์ธ๊ธฐ / ๋“œ๋ก  The drone is controlled from a station on the ground.
trainer aircraft ํ›ˆ๋ จ๊ธฐ Student pilots fly a trainer aircraft with an instructor.
tanker aircraft ๊ณต์ค‘๊ธ‰์œ ๊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 ๋‚ ๊ฐœ / ์ฃผ์ต Ice on the wing is dangerous for flying.
tail ๊ผฌ๋ฆฌ๋‚ ๊ฐœ / ๋ฏธ์ต The tail keeps the aircraft stable in flight.
landing gear ์ฐฉ๋ฅ™ ์žฅ์น˜ / ๋žœ๋”ฉ ๊ธฐ์–ด The pilot lowered the landing gear before landing.
rudder ๋ฐฉํ–ฅํƒ€ The rudder turns the nose left or right.
aileron ๋ณด์กฐ๋‚ ๊ฐœ / ์—์ผ๋Ÿฌ๋ก  The ailerons make the aircraft roll and turn.
flap ํ”Œ๋žฉ / ๊ณ ์–‘๋ ฅ ์žฅ์น˜ Pilots extend the flaps for takeoff and landing.
throttle ์Šค๋กœํ‹€ / ์ถ”๋ ฅ ์กฐ์ ˆ ์žฅ์น˜ She pushed the throttle forward to gain speed.
engine ์—”์ง„ The engine roared as the jet took off.
propeller ํ”„๋กœํŽ ๋Ÿฌ The old trainer has a single propeller.
canopy ์บ๋…ธํ”ผ / ์กฐ์ข…์„ ๋ฎ๊ฐœ The canopy closed slowly over the pilot's head.
instrument panel ๊ณ„๊ธฐํŒ The instrument panel shows speed, altitude, and fuel.
altimeter ๊ณ ๋„๊ณ„ The altimeter shows how high the aircraft is.
fuel tank ์—ฐ๋ฃŒ ํƒฑํฌ The fuel tank was full before the long flight.
ejection seat ์‚ฌ์ถœ ์ขŒ์„ The ejection seat can save a pilot's life.
parachute ๋‚™ํ•˜์‚ฐ Every pilot learns how to use a parachute.
flight suit ๋น„ํ–‰๋ณต / ์กฐ์ข…๋ณต He wore a green flight suit with his name tag.
helmet ํ—ฌ๋ฉง / ๋น„ํ–‰ ํ—ฌ๋ฉง The helmet protects the pilot's head during flight.
oxygen mask ์‚ฐ์†Œ ๋งˆ์Šคํฌ Pilots wear an oxygen mask at high altitude.
runway ํ™œ์ฃผ๋กœ The jet waited at the end of the runway.
hangar ๊ฒฉ๋‚ฉ๊ณ  Mechanics fixed the aircraft inside the hangar.
control tower ๊ด€์ œํƒ‘ The control tower cleared us for takeoff.
taxiway ์œ ๋„๋กœ The plane moved slowly along the taxiway.
air traffic control ํ•ญ๊ณต ๊ตํ†ต ๊ด€์ œ Air traffic control guides every plane near the base.
airbase ๊ณต๊ตฐ ๊ธฐ์ง€ The airbase is home to two fighter squadrons.
radar ๋ ˆ์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 ๋Œ€๊ธฐ ์†๋„ / ๋น„ํ–‰ ์†๋„ Watch your airspeed carefully during the turn.
turbulence ๋‚œ๊ธฐ๋ฅ˜ We felt strong turbulence over the mountains.
pilot ์กฐ์ข…์‚ฌ / ํŒŒ์ผ๋Ÿฟ The pilot has flown for over ten years.
copilot ๋ถ€์กฐ์ข…์‚ฌ The copilot read the checklist out loud.
crew ์Šน๋ฌด์› The crew prepared the aircraft for the mission.
flight plan ๋น„ํ–‰ ๊ณ„ํš File your flight plan before you take off.
sortie ์ถœ๊ฒฉ The squadron flew three training sorties today.
formation flying ํŽธ๋Œ€ ๋น„ํ–‰ Formation flying requires trust between the pilots.
maneuver ๊ธฐ๋™ The pilot practiced the maneuver again and again.
climb ์ƒ์Šน The jet began a steep climb after takeoff.
descent ํ•˜๊ฐ• / ๊ฐ•ํ•˜ We started our descent toward the airbase.
cruise ์ˆœํ•ญ The aircraft will cruise at a steady speed.
stall ์‹ค์† A stall happens when the wings lose lift.
autopilot ์ž๋™ ์กฐ์ข… ์žฅ์น˜ / ์˜คํ† ํŒŒ์ผ๋Ÿฟ The autopilot kept the plane level and steady.
navigation ํ•ญ๋ฒ• Good navigation keeps you on the correct route.
checklist ์ ๊ฒ€ํ‘œ / ์ฒดํฌ๋ฆฌ์ŠคํŠธ Never skip a single item on the checklist.
preflight check ๋น„ํ–‰ ์ „ ์ ๊ฒ€ The preflight check took about twenty minutes.
refueling ๊ธ‰์œ  / ์žฌ๊ธ‰์œ  Refueling in the air takes great skill.
simulator ๋ชจ์˜ ๋น„ํ–‰ ์žฅ์น˜ / ์‹œ๋ฎฌ๋ ˆ์ดํ„ฐ Cadets practice emergencies in the flight simulator.
jet engine ์ œํŠธ ์—”์ง„ A jet engine is powerful but very loud.
supersonic ์ดˆ์Œ์† The fighter can fly at supersonic speed.
aviation ํ•ญ๊ณต / ํ•ญ๊ณตํ•™ He has loved aviation since he was a child.