The Crossword
Challenge
April showers have you
grounded? Here's a little
something to keep your
mind sharp this month.
You'll find the answers to Myles
Mellor's crossword challenge on
page 142.
Across
1. The movement of an airplane in a
horizontal plane through the influ-
ence of a crosswind
5. ___ column, operates the ailerons
and elevator
10. Military term: right arm,
abbreviation
11. Flight time recorded when taking
flight instruction
12. Prosecutor, abbreviation
13. Van Gogh and Monet
15. Milliliter, for short
16. Definitely!
17. Obama state
18. ___ Ace, an early homebuilt air-
craft
20. Greensboro location
21. A hinged surface used to increase
the lift of a wing at slow speeds
24. Smaller plateau
27. Basic unit of volume in the
metric system
29. Student score
31. Assuming that’s true (two words)
33. Aircraft series that are all mono-
planes of monocoque construction
34. Chemistry compound
35. Love message, when repeated
36. Musical items
38. Old record
39. The paved area around a hangar
41. The action of “holding the air-
craft off,” to reduce the descent rate
during landing
43. Lubed the engine
46. Historically, the commercial capi-
tal of Japan
47. On the water
48. Wood and ___, some of the oldest
homebuilt aircraft materials
51. Magazine manager
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53. Series of homebuilts designed by
Ken Rand
54. Pressure measure
56. Poet, Cummings
57. That is, for short
58. Mongolian desert
59. Salvage loss, for short
60. Face-off
62. Light switch option
63. Create
64. Sleep a little
66. Treaty organization
67. Experimental aircraft project
designed by Roger Junqua
68. ___ pressurization, the active
pumping of compressed air into an
aircraft
Down
1. The resisting force exerted on an
aircraft in its line of flight opposite in
direction to its motion
2. Extra
3. The physical speed of the aircraft
relative to the air surrounding the air-
craft, abbreviation
4. Passports, for example
5. The curved upper surface of the
wing
6. Earthen pots
7. Stewardess’ carrier
8. Lyrical poems
9. Manufacturer of high-performance
aircraft kits
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24
34
36 37
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64
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16
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25
29 30
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48 49
56
60 61
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89
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42
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14. Spats
19. Luggage
22. Montgomery locale
23. A pilot weather report
24. “Take the last dance with ___”
25. Super Bowl XLIII locale
26. The point of intersection of two
position lines drawn on a map to
determine the location of an airplane
28. Ad medium
30. Survey of sorts
32. Centers of attention
34. Exists
36. The use of automobile engines in
sportsplanes helps to reduce these
37. Code of life
39. Clement ___, French engineer
known for his pioneering work in
aviation
40. Revenue officer, abbreviation
41. Confront
42. Level of command
43. Richard VanGrunsven’s factory
location
44. Hollywood’s home
45. Alaska native
49. Energy saving light
50. Trash bag fastener
52. Spanish “gentlewoman”
54. Roman commoner
55. Charged particles
59. Aspen action
61. Computer port
65. Software recipient
