airway beacon

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• Airway beacon — An Airway beacon was a rotating light on a tower used for visual navigation by airplane pilots along a specified airway corridor. Approximately 1,500 Airway beacons were constructed, covering 18,000 miles (29,000 km) in the U.S. to guide pilots… …   Wikipedia

• airway beacon — Beacons used to mark airway segments in remote mountainous areas. These beacons flash lights in Morse code to identify beacon sites …   Aviation dictionary

• airway beacon — noun : a revolving beacon light of high intensity marking the course of an airway …   Useful english dictionary

• beacon — Synonyms and related words: AM transmitter, FM transmitter, Klaxon, Mayday, RT transmitter, Roman candle, SOS, Texas tower, Very flare, aid to navigation, air raid alarm, airport beacon, airway beacon, alarm, alarm bell, alarm clock, alarm signal …   Moby Thesaurus

• airway — /ˈɛəweɪ/ (say airway) noun 1. an air route fully equipped with emergency landing fields, beacon lights, radio beams, etc. 2. any passage in a mine used for purposes of ventilation; an air course. 3. Medicine a tube used to achieve unobstructed… …  

• airway — /air way /, n. 1. an air route equipped with emergency landing fields, beacon lights, radio beams, etc. 2. a passageway by which air passes from the nose or mouth to the air sacs of the lungs. 3. Med. a tubelike device used to maintain adequate,… …   Universalium

• airway — air•way [[t]ˈɛərˌweɪ[/t]] n. 1) trs aer. an air route equipped with emergency landing fields, beacon lights, etc 2) anat. the passageway by which air passes from the nose or mouth to the air sacs of the lungs 3) med Med. a tubelike device used to …   From formal English to slang

• Non-directional beacon — Radio Tower of NKR Leimen Ochsenbach, Germany This symbol denotes an NDB on an aeronaut …   Wikipedia

• aeronautical light beacon — An international visual navigational aid displaying flashes of white and/or colored light to indicate the location of an airport, a heliport, a landmark, a certain point on the federal airway in mountainous terrain, or an obstruction. The lights… …   Aviation dictionary

• Daimler Airway — was an airline subsidiary of BSA group s Daimler Motor Company created to use some of the assets of the failed ventures Airco and its subsidiary Aircraft Transport and Travel acquired by BSA in February 1920. Contents 1 History 1.1 Airco and… …   Wikipedia

• radio-marker beacon — The beacons that serve to identify a particular location in space along an airway or approach to an instrument runway. This is done by means of a 75 MHz transmitter, which transmits a directional signal to be received by aircraft flying overhead …   Aviation dictionary