Tricky words
Across
- 1. a commercial airline flight between two distant points that departs late at night and arrives early in the morning; indicating a long-distant flight that leaves late at night
- 4. - to conceal, cover, mask; to make indistinct, difficult to use
- 6. - unfavorable, bad or poor; acting or going against you
- 9. -to force sth upon a person or thing
- 11. a final transition phase of an aircraft landing, from a steady descent path to touchdown
- 13. - stopping or ceasing for a time; alternately functioning and not functioning or alternately functioning properly or improperly
- 16. another word for stand or apron or sometimes used for runway at an airport; a paving material formerly used for a road, airport runway, etc. (tarmacadam)
- 17. having a natural tendency towards sth; having a downward direction, slope
- 19. not to allow light to penetrate or pass through
Down
- 2. a set of limitations within which a technological system especially an aircraft can perform safely and effectively; a cover
- 3. a person who travels sectretly by hiding in an aircraft, or a ship, not paying the fare
- 5. to throw (cargo, supplies, etc.) overboard from a boat or airplane to lighten it or make it stable in an emergency; to dump fuel in flight
- 7. - to (cause to) become thinner toward one end
- 8. irregular motion of the plane or of one of its parts caused by turbulences in the airflow
- 10. an increase in air pressure cause by the forward speed of the aircraft
- 12. – to change direction or course or turn aside, to move diagonally away from the centerline or correct path; to change direction clockwise (for the wind)
- 14. avoiding or seeking to avoid (trouble or difficulties); hard to catch or obtain
- 15. unintentionally, without being aware
- 18. a slope or inclination