| 单词 | spotting aeroplane |
| 释义 | > as lemmasspotting aeroplane c. attributive. Military. In sense 10, as spotting aeroplane, spotting officer, spotting work, etc. Cf. spotter n. Compounds. ΚΠ 1908 Proc. for 1907 (Brooklyn Engineers' Club) 173 The spotting officer watches the fall of the shot, and he gives the range to all of the guns on the ship that bear on the target. 1915 Times 22 Feb. 6/3 Observation can be obtained by a spotting ship giving a control station, say 60 ft. above the water line, at a range of 15,000 yards. 1940 Aeroplane 27 Dec. 750/1 At the end of four days' spotting course run by London Civil Defence. 1994 R. T. Bickers Air War Normandy xxii. 161 By maintaining constant fighter patrols along the front, freedom of action for the reconnaissance and spotting aeroplanes of the 2nd Army was obtained. 2000 R. W. Burns John Logie Baird iv. 99 The chief use for such a ‘radio tele-writer’ was for spotting work by aircraft cooperating with the Navy. < as lemmas |
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