| 单词 | aerial navigator |
| 释义 | > as lemmasaerial (also air) navigator b. Originally (in full aerial (also air) navigator): a balloonist; = aeronaut n. 1 (now rare). Now usually: a person who plots and directs the course of an aircraft or spacecraft. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > people who fly in aircraft or spacecraft > [noun] > crew of aircraft or spacecraft > member of crew > with specific duties navigator1784 motor-mate1928 flight engineer1938 loadmaster1961 nav1961 1784 Universal Mag. 74 20/1 But they soon lost sight of our aerial navigators. 1825 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 442 Mr. Graham, another aërial navigator, let off another balloon. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. v. 53/2 A hapless air-navigator, plunging, amid torn parachutes, sand-bags, and confused wreck, fast enough, into the jaws of the Devil! 1909 Westm. Gaz. 9 Feb. 4/1 Pointing out how the flying-machine is likely to violate every international law and rudely trespass on every private right and privilege, characterising the intrepid navigators as air-hogs and human vultures. 1936 Forum & Cent. July 36/2 Suppose that a breed of space navigators has begun to appear on earth. 1951 Oxf. Junior Encycl. IV. 290/2 Once in flight, the navigator's task is continually to ‘fix’ his position by observations. 1989 Aircraft Illustr. Feb. 101/1 The amount of time involved in navigational training arises because there is no separate rank of Navigator in the Spanish Air Force. < as lemmas |
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