The Crossword
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Cold temperatures have you in a slump? Keep your brain sharp by tackling another one
of Myles Mellor’s aviation-themed
crossword puzzles!
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You’ll find the answers to this
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1. ___ yaw, yaw generated when the
ailerons are used
5. Any specific compartment in the
body of the aircraft
8. Federal Aviation Regulations
11. Plane direction, from takeoff
12. Nautical ___, the most common
distance measurement in aviation
13. Wedding words (two words)
14. ___ rating, the rating system of
gasoline with regard to its anti-deto-
nating qualities
16. Accounts payable, abbreviation
17. Red or White team?
19. “He’s a good ___ boy…”
20. Dulles airport site
22. A kerosene-type turbine engine
fuel similar to the military JP- 5
24. Mistake
27. Conventional ___, having two
main landing wheels at the front and
a tail wheel at the rear
30. Medical expert
31. Musket ending
33. Plus
34. American Airlines, abbreviation
36. Golden Gate city
38. Inertia ___, the resistance to accel-
eration or deceleration
39. Soft downy mass
40. Communications radio frequency
42. Length measurement, abbrevia-
tion
43. Jargon or slang
45. Defrost
47. Landing ___, the distance an
aircraft travels on the ground after
touchdown
49. Built preceder?
51. Effective ___, the actual distance
a propeller moves through the air in
one revolution
54. State where Camp Butler was
(abbreviation)
55. Extended play record
57. Attempt
58. Word of denial
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59. Engine lube
61. ___ overhaul, the complete disassembly, cleaning, inspection, repair,
and reassembly of an aircraft
63. Letters for many new TV sets
64. Lane, abbreviation
65. Heat ___, the amount of heat
that the air conditioner is required
to remove from an airplane cabin to
maintain constant cabin temperature
67. Walk in water
69. Tail action
70. Distinct segment of a market
72. Pitch a tent
74. Air and Space Museum locale
75. Pop
76. ___nage, aircraft’s tail group
77. Landing ___, the wheels, floats,
and skis, for example
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1. AGL part
2. Ele___, a horizontal, movable con-
trol surface on the tail of an airplane
that changes its pitch
3. Operate
4. Went too fast
5. An airplane having two wings, one
placed above the other
6. State where Martin Luther King was
married
7. Affirmative
8. FBO part
9. Business promotion
10. ___ Parks, freedom pioneer
12. Pa’s mate
15. Healing plant
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18. Breakfast juice
21. The static balance point
23. Air ___, aircraft moving in flight or
on airport runways
25. Become corroded
26. Game arbiter
28. Every individual one
29. Road, for short
32. Grass that borders a fairway
35. Toward the tail
37. Descend
39. Krueger ___, a movable device set in
the leading edge of an aircraft wing
40. ___ Force, the force that is pro-
duced when a particle moves along a
path in a plane while the plane itself
is rotating
41. Arrange papers
44. Hawaiian honeyeater
45. Flat roof of a house
46. Head ___, this impedes an aircraft’s
groundspeed
48. Patchwork
50. The maximum weight of any air-
craft on takeoff without exceeding its
load factor
52. Head ___ the airport
53. Aircraft maintenance place
56. Nighttime
60. Touch down
62. Continuous pain
63. Skirt line
64. Hot rock
66. Day, to Diego
68. Comedian Aykroyd
71. Dorothy’s aunt
73. Movie rating
