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Aeronautical

Aeronautic \A`["e]r*o*naut"ic\, Aeronautical \A`["e]r*o*naut"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. a['e]ronauitique.] Pertaining to a["e]ronautics, or a["e]rial sailing.

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aeronautical

a. Of or pertaining to the scientific study of flight

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aeronautical

adj. of or pertaining to aeronautics [syn: aeronautic]

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Usage examples of "aeronautical".

For some years, in spite of a loud voice, a large presence, an aggressive swagger, and an implacable manner, he had been an undistinguished member of most of the existing aeronautical associations.

He returned to the Crystal Palace grounds, that classic starting-point of aeronautical adventure, about sunset, re-entered his shed without disaster, and had the doors locked immediately upon the photographers and journalists who been waiting his return.

For weeks agricultural experts and aeronautical scientists investigated the strange whirligig patterns left in crops flattened along a narrow strip three-quarters of a mile long.

American bicycle-builders had surpassed the Royal Aeronautical Society, because they flew their crafts themselves, lying prone in their own creations, flying, as it was noted, by the seat of their pants.

Heinlein was not unknown to me when he appeared in the offices of the Aeronautical Materials Laboratory of the Naval Aircraft Factory in Philadelphia in early 1942.

Bob Heinlein was a most worthy addition to the Aeronautical Materials Laboratory.

Even when we have demonstrated that all these individual deaths, and the final mass catastrophe, can be blamed on callous aeronautical experiments-perhaps even hostile military demonstrations-carried out by the United States over Mexican territory, some people will remain firmly persuaded that the real responsibility rests on creatures from Jupiter or Polaris, and that somebody is covering up the truth for reasons of policy.

Now was obviously the time to fuse all those scattered scraps of aeronautical information into real understanding.

One of my few authenticated pieces of aeronautical information said that a plane must land into the wind.

Now Idlewild is an airfield in the Guajira Peninsula of Colombia, a sort of aeronautical Grand Central Station for blokes in the business.

Filmer walked in a group of three with Banghurst, who was supremely and conspicuously happy, and Sir Theodore Hickle, the president of the Aeronautical Society.

He quit high school at the age of fifteen and enrolled at Kansas State University, breezing through the aeronautical engineering program in two years, after which he went to work for Cessna Aircraft Company as the youngest engineer on staff, or on the staff of any other airplane company so far as anyone knew.

We were lying in the Colorado Rocket Basin, north of Denver, with a fair load aboard, mostly watchmaking machinery, agricultural equipment, aeronautical jigs and tools for Upskadaska, as well as a case of radium needles for the Venusian Cancer Research Institute.

Carroll Eventyr: the late Roland Feldspath again, long-co-opted expert on control systems, guidance equations, feedback situations for this Aeronautical Establishment and that.

Flettner sails, invented by the German aeronautical engineer Anton Flettner, the man who conceived the trim tab for aircraft.