Across
1 Substance used as a drying agent when storing planes
6 Sudden severe turbulence occurring in cloudless regions causing violent buffeting of the aircraft, abbr.
8 Prop sound
9 Gauge datum
10 Dornier letters
11 Religious denomination, for short
13 Venturi _____ (plural)
16 _____ yaw: yaw generated when the ailerons are used
18 Flightpath between airports
19 One of four forces of flight
21 Unit of energy
23 Where a climb gets you
26 Flexible wing plan used on paragliders and now on some powered aircraft
30 A wing planform used by Dyke, for instance
32 Generic acronym for runway instrument illumination
33 Used for wings and sometimes for tails, too
Down
1 A danger of storm fronts
2 Maneuver to lose altitude in a hurry
3 What not to knowingly fly into
4 The A in ASI
5 “Puller?”
6 Part of the flight after takeoff and before it reaches a level altitude
7 It’s helpful for hauling heavy planes around
11 The things that occasionally get struck
14 Leading-edge orientation on most supersonic planes
17 How we usually fly when the weather is nice
20 Whose airspace the FAA is concerned with
22 Palindromic acronym for waves that bounce back
24 Fly___ (plural) (for some pilots, in slang)
25 Long, narrow spanwise gap in the wing to improve airflow
26 Runway safety area, abbr.
27 GLONASS is Russia’s version
