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Definition: Airspeed |
AirspeedNoun1. The speed of an aircraft relative to the air in which it is flying. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Airspeed |
| English words defined with "airspeed": Pitot tube, Pitot-static tube. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "airspeed": air position indicator, airspeed indicator ♦ bomb sighting systems ♦ calibrated airspeed, continuously set vector ♦ deduced position reckoning ♦ equivalent airspeed ♦ IAS indicator, IAS transmitter, indicated air speed indicator, indicated air speed transmitter, indicated airspeed, INSTRUMENT INSPECTOR ♦ jump speed ♦ kinetic heating ♦ PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEER ♦ thrust power, translation lift, translational lift, true airspeed ♦ wind triangle. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Their most productive period was during World War Two. A graceful, twin engined trainer-cum-light transport aircraft known as the AS10 Oxford had a production run exceeding 8,500. Almost 3,800 AS51 and AS58 Horsa gliders were built for the Royal Air Force and its allies. Many of these made one-way journeys into occupied France as part of the D-Day landings, towed from England by Commandos, Dakotass and other piston-engined aircraft.
In 1940 de Havilland bought the Airspeed company and, besides adapting some surplus Oxford aircraft as AS65 Consuls for the commercial market, they went on to produce a superbly streamlined twin-engined piston airliner called the AS57 Ambassador. This aircraft offered seating for 47 passengers and with a nosewheel undercarriage looked far more modern than the Commandos, Dakotas, Lancastrians and Vikings that were common on Europe's shorter airline routes. With three low fins it shared something of the character of the larger trans-continental Lockheed Constellation. It first flew on July 10th 1947. British European Airways operated up to twenty of them between 1952 and 1958, calling them "Elizabethans" in honour of the newly crowned Queen, it also helped the growth of Dan-Air an important airline in the development of package holidays. The popularity of this splendid aircraft was soon eclipsed however by the arrival of faster turboprops such as the Lockheed 188 Electra and the Vickers Viscount. Airspeed Ambassador 2 aircraft unfortunately made the headlines in a disastrous take off from Munich air disaster, West Germany on 6 February 1958 (also a tragedy for English football) and a spectacular fatal crash landing at London Heathrow Airport, England on 3rd July 1968 by a BKS AS57 Ambassador in which several horses on board died and a parked HS121 Trident was written-off just before the airliner hit terminal buildings. One has been preserved by the Imperial War Museum at Duxford, Cambridgeshire in eastern England.
Airspeed also refers to the speed of an aircraft in relation to the air which may be different from groundspeed which is the speed of the aircraft in relation to the ground. The difference between airspeed and groundspeed is a function of the velocity and direction of the wind. Airspeed is important because it determines the aerodynamic characteristics of the aircraft.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Airspeed."
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Clever | It only takes two things to fly: airspeed and money. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Airspeed (1998) | |
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| "Airspeed" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 78.87% of the time. "Airspeed" is used about 71 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 78.87% | 56 | 45,296 |
| Noun (proper) | 16.9% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.82% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 1.41% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 71 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "airspeed": airspeed indicator ♦ calibrated airspeed ♦ combined airspeed indicator ♦ design airspeed ♦ design rough airspeed ♦ equivalent airspeed ♦ indicated airspeed ♦ indicated airspeed indicator ♦ rectified airspeed ♦ true airspeed ♦ true airspeed indicator. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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airspeed | 30 |
airspeed indicator | 12 |
airspeed arizona | 3 |
airspeed ambassador | 3 |
airspeed true | 3 |
airspeed calculation true | 3 |
airspeed swallow unladen velocity | 3 |
airspeed horsa | 3 |
airspeed oxford | 2 |
airspeed aviation | 2 |
revue thommen airspeed | 2 |
airspeed skateparks | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "airspeed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 空速. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | hastighed i forhold til luften, flyvehastighed. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | luchtsnelheid. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | nopeus ilmassa, ilmanopeus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | vitesse par rapport al aire, vitesse aérodynamique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Fluggeschwindigkeit (flying speed), Eigengeschwindigkeit. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αεροδυναμική ταχύτητα, ταχύτητα αέρα (air speed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | repülési sebesség (air speed), levegõhöz viszonyított sebesség. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | velocita'aerodinamica, velocit rispetto all'aria. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 기속. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | airspeeday velocidade respeito ao ar, velocidade aerodinâmica. (various references) воздушный скорость. (various references) ispravljena instrumentna avionska brzina (calibrated airspeed). (various references) velocidad aerodinámica. (various references) flyghastighet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "airspeed": airspeeds. (additional references) | |
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"Airspeed" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: airshed, airtexed, Arrospide. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "airspeed" (pronounced e"rspē'd) |
| 3 | -p ē' d | centipede. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-i-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: aperies, aspired, dearies, despair, diapers, praised, preside, readies, respade, speared, speired, spiered. | |
-2 letters: aeried, aeries, aiders, aspire, deairs, dearie, desire, diaper, drapes, easier, eiders, erased, espied, irades, padres, paired, pardee, pardie, paries, parsed, peised, perdie, pereia, pesade, praise, prides, prised, raised, rapids, rasped, reaped, rediae, redias, redips, repaid, resaid, reseda, reside, seared. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-i-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: airspeeds, bediapers, despaired, despairer, draperies, pedaliers, pedlaries. | |
+2 letters: dealership, despairers, espadrille, espaliered, hesperidia, jeopardies, jeopardise, leadership, pedantries, pederastic, pedestrian, peroxidase, plaistered, predicates, readership, repudiates, tapestried, widespread. | |
+3 letters: bespreading, dealerships, depolarizes, depravities, depreciates, desipramine, desperation, diaphoreses, disappeared, displeasure, espadrilles, hypermedias, interpleads, interspaced, jeopardised, jeopardises, jeopardizes, leaderships, overpraised, pasteurised, pasteurized, pederasties, pedestrians, peroxidases, preassigned, predacities, prediabetes, predicables, rapidnesses, readerships, reappraised, redisplayed, respreading, spearfished. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 69 72 73 70 65 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .. .-. ... .--. . . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01101001 01110010 01110011 01110000 01100101 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A i r s p e e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0069 0072 0073 0070 0065 0065 0064 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3575848582717170 |
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