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Aviation Definitions
Flight Term Definitions (Click on the word for a pop-up definition.)

 
10 X 3.8  
10 x 7  
11 x 5 N  
11 x 6 N  
12 x 10  
12 x 6  
15C Li-poly battery  
16 x 12.3  
16 x 8  
19 x 8  
4-Point Roll  
5S 1P  
7 x 3.5  
8.25 x 5.5  
ABC or ABN  
Accelerated Stalls  
Adverse Yaw  
Aileron Differential  
Ailerons  
Analog  
ARF  
ATV  
Axial Roll  
Bank  
Barrel Roll  
Barrel Roll  
Battery Capacity  
BEC  
Blind Nuts  
Blue words or phrases  
Bottom Step  
Buddy Box  
Buddy-box  
CA  
CA Adhesive  
Center of Gravity  
Chandelles  
Channels  
Chatter  
Chicken Stick  
Computer  
Crosswinds  
Crow  
Cyanoacrylate adhesive  
deep stall  
deep stall  
Deep Stalls  
Delta Wing  
Descent Attitude  
Dihedral  
Downwind, Base, Final Approach  
DSM2  
DSM2  
Dual conversion  
Dual rates  
DXM2  
Electronic Speed Control  
Elevon  
Engine Timing  
ESC  
Flap  
Flaperons  
Flare  
Flat Bottomed Wings  
Flat Turn  
flat-bottom airfoil  
flat-bottomed airfoil  
Flight Pack  
Float Step  
Flutter  
Flutter  
FM  
Former  
Forward Slip  
Four/Eight Point Rolls  
Glide Path  
Glide Slope  
Go Around  
Go Around  
Go-Around  
Grabber  
Ground Effect  
Ground Speed  
High aspect ratio  
High-Speed Needle Control  
Horizontal Stabilizer  
HTML Printing  
Idle Mixture Control  
IMAA  
IMAC  
Immelmann Turn  
Incidence  
Induced Drag  
Knife-Edge  
Knife-Edge  
Landing Flare  
Lateral Balance  
Laterally Balanced  
Lean Mixture  
mAh  
microballoons  
Missed approach  
Mixing  
NATS  
Neutralizing transmitter trim settings  
Ni-Cd  
Ni-MH  
non-scale  
Opposite aileron  
Outrunner  
Outrunner Brushless  
Outside Loops  
Over the top or Out the bottom  
parallel  
Parasitic Drag  
Pattern  
Phugoid Oscillations  
Pitch Coupling  
Polyhedral  
Precision Aerobatics  
Prime  
profile  
Programmable Channel Mixes  
Propeller Pitch  
Propeller Unloading  
Roll Coupling  
Rotate  
RTF  
Scale  
Semi-Symmetrical Airfoil  
series  
Servo  
Servo Reversing  
short coupled  
Slow Roll  
Snap Out  
Snap Roll  
Snap Rolls  
Snap Stall  
Soap and Water Method  
Spin  
Spin  
Spins  
Sportsman Schedule  
Stall & Power-off stalls  
Stall Break  
Stall Speeds  
Stall turns  
Throttle Clicks  
Throttle Notches  
Throttle Notches  
Tip stall  
Top Rudder  
Torque  
Touch and Go  
Trim  
Trim  
Trim Levers  
Under-Cambered Wing  
V-Tail  
V-tail mixing  
Vertical fin  
Washout  
wing chord  
Wing loading  
Wing Saddle  
Wing saddle  
wingspan  
Yaw  


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