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aircrew
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Aircrew , also called flight crew , are personnel who operate an aircraft while in flight. The composition of a flight's crew depends on the type of aircraft, plus the duration and purpose of the flight.
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n. the crew of an aircraft [syn: air crew ]
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Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ At last darkness arrived and with it respite for the Fleet and convoy, and welcomed rest for the aircrews. ▪ At the new airline's operational headquarters - a small warehouse at Lowfield Heath, near Gatwick - recruitment of aircrews ...
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Aircrew casualties: 228 dead, 60 prisoners of war, 2 evaders, together with 2 war correspondents killed and 1 taken prisoner.
Amongst these aircrews, however, his slight paunch was Falstaffian, his pate Pickwickian and his cheerful nose Cyrano-like.
Along with the rest of the aircrew, he got out of the Lanc in a hurry and sprinted across the tarmacnow blacked out againfor the Nissen hut whose corrugated metal walls were surrounded by sandbags to protect against blast.
Then why did I end up with Migs shooting at me and my aircrews so often?
On the pan were Chinooks and Pumas and a couple of aircrew mincing around on them.
James and I ran around the perimeter fence, past Chinooks and aircrew who were busy licking ice creams.
He had the briefing book up and the aircrews involved debriefed and cleared.
The pilots and aircrews knew him to be a magnificent flight surgeon, a little nuts, and one hell of a man.
It was said the aircrews got the best food in the services and I believed it, but after a while it all began to taste the same.
He knew that the other helicopter aircrews would return speakerphone in the secure holding area in Berlin.
Memoir: Parachute Logistics, Korean War, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, 1949-1950 Preface This memoir concerns a decision I made at the outbreak of the Korean War for procurement of aircrew emergency bailout parachutes for the United States Air Force (USAF).
At the 'maximum' age of 7 years, personnel parachutes were, by USAF regulation, to be removed from further service for aircrew emergency bailout, although they could be used for cargo drops.
Priorities My highest priorities for USAF in Korea were aircrew parachutes, aircraft emergency life preservers, aircrew emergency bailout survival kits (attached to parachute harnesses), oxygen masks, and components ('components,' for instance, took into account that inflatable life preservers are not much help to an aircrew member floating in the sea if the CO2 inflation cartridges had not been checked and installed or had been discharged for an unauthorized purpose.
Normally the aircrews of the Polish LOT airlines, for which he was a senior steward, passed through customs and immigration almost as a formality.
The knowledge made bomber aircrew cautious, and made them view swaggering, aggressive fighter pilots as not quite right in the head.