Wend - Go slowly or by an indirect route

xiphoid: shaped like a sword

ZAWSTER-An old 18th century word for a seamstress or dressmaker. 

Annual Inspection – A required aircraft inspection every 12 calendar months

calorimeter -


instrument for measuring absorbed or evolved heat

Canoodle- fondle or pet affectionately.

DAFFLED - If you’re daffled, then you’re bewildered or disorientated by a sensory overload.

Empennage – Another phrase for the tail of an aircraft, which provides stability during flight.

Ground Resonance -An imbalance in the rotation of a helicopter rotor when the blades become bunched up on one side of their rotational plane and cause an oscillation in phase with the frequency of the rocking of the helicopter on its landing gear.

(I've never been in one or seen one happen, but I've been in one when the helo was "going into" ground resonance....the pilot  picked up the helo into a low hover and repositioned helo on the ground. There are videos online, some are scary)

Human Factors (The Dirty Dozen) 

The study of how people interact with their environment. In aviation, it is the study of how pilots' & mechanics' performance are influenced by personal issues, physical, psychological, environmental, etc......Personal note: We have reoccuring human factors training. Any mistake is costly in aviation.

incubous: (of leaves) overlapping, with the upper part of each leaf covering the base of the leaf above it

jumboismAdmiration of bigness, or for things or enterprises remarkable only for their size.

latitat -


writ based on supposition that person is in hiding