| 单词 | arrester wire |
| 释义 | > as lemmasarrester wire d. A contrivance for bringing to rest aircraft alighting on an aircraft carrier; usually attributive, as arrester gear, arrester hook, arrester wire. See also arresting adj. b. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > airfield or airport > [noun] > halting mechanism on aircraft carrier arrester1926 1926 Flight 18 696/2 It is in connection with deck landing that the arrester gear is most likely to be of service. 1927 V. W. Pagé Mod. Aircraft (1928) xvii. 714 (heading) Catapults and Airplane Arresters. 1937 Aeroplane 9 June 691/2 About the same time our Fleet Air Arm gave up arrester-wires and took to trusting to wheel-brakes on bare decks. 1940 Flight 15 Feb. 147/1 A deck arrester hook is fitted. 1954 P. K. Kemp Fleet Air Arm vii. 92 A more satisfactory type of arrester gear was eventually fitted [‘Courageous’ and ‘Glorious’] consisting of transverse wires on the after part of the deck which were picked up by a trailing hook on the aircraft. < as lemmas |
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