Essential Aviation and Security Terms
A
- Aboard: On a plane or a ship.
- Advise: To tell someone what they should do.
- Aisle: A space between lines of seats, where you can walk.
- Ambassador: A person sent to a foreign country to speak for his own country's government.
- Attack: To try to hurt someone or something.
B
- Bend: To turn the top half of the body downwards.
- Binoculars: Very strong glasses used to see things far away.
C
- Cabin: A room on a plane or a ship.
- Chest: The front part of the body between the neck and stomach.
- Colonel: An important officer in the army.
- Commando Section: A group of soldiers specially trained for making quick attacks.
- Control Room: The building in an airport where people control air traffic by radio.
- Crew: The pilot and all the people who work on a plane.
D
- Deal With: To do something that needs doing.
- Decision: What you have decided.
- Departure Lounge: A room in an airport where passengers wait.
E
- Embassy: The building where an ambassador lives and works.
F
- Fire: To shoot a gun.
- Fist: A closed hand with fingers turned inwards.
- Flash: A sudden, very bright light for a very short time.
- Flight: A journey on a plane.
- Forehead: The part of the face above the eyes.
- Freedom: Being free; able to do what you want to do.
- Fuel Tanker: A large vehicle for carrying petrol.
G
- Gentleman: A polite word for a man.
- Goddam: A word used to show you feel strongly about something.
- Government: The group of people who control a country.
- Groan: To make a deep, sad sound.
H
- Handcuff: To lock someone's hands together with handcuffs.
- Hell: A word used with question-words to show anger or surprise.
- Hijacker: A person who takes control of a plane and makes the pilot fly to a different place.
- Homework: Schoolwork which you do at home.
- Honey: A word for someone you love very much.
- Hostess: A woman who takes care of passengers on a plane.
I
- Innocent: An innocent person has done nothing bad or wrong.
- Inspector: An important police officer.
- Instruments: In a plane, instruments tell the pilot how high the plane is, how much fuel there is, etc.
- Interrupt: To stop somebody talking by speaking yourself.
J
- Journalist: A person who writes for newspapers, television, etc.
K
- Kneel: To go down or stay with your knees on the ground.
L
- Liberation: Freedom.
- List: A piece of paper with names written on it.
- Local Time: The time in the place you are talking about.
M
- Ma'am: Madam, a polite way of speaking to a woman.
- Machine Gun: A gun that fires a lot of bullets quickly.
- Marine: A soldier who is trained to fight on land or sea.
- Military Base: A place where soldiers live and work.
- Military Men: Men from an army, soldiers.
N
O
- On Time: Neither late nor early, at the agreed or correct time.
- Open-Necked: With the top buttons of a shirt undone.
P
- Pause: To stop for a moment.
- Pig: A farm animal, a word for a very bad person.
- Point: To show with your hand or finger where something is.
- Pool: Some liquids on the ground.
- Pour: To put liquids into something.
- Power: People like prime ministers, presidents, etc. have power: they can tell other people what to do.
- Pray: To talk to God.
- Press: To push hard.
- Prime Minister: The most important person in a government.
R
- Refuel: To bring more fuel to a plane, ship, etc.
S
- SAS: Special Air Service.
- Set Free: To make someone free, e.g. from a prison, from a hijack.
- Skyjack: A hijack in the air.
- Sweat: Water that comes out of the skin when you are hot or afraid.
T
- Take Apart: To destroy; to win a battle in a very violent way.
- Tarmac: A hard material used for roads, airports, etc.
- Tear: (noun) Water that comes from your eyes when you cry.
- Tear: (verb) To pull something to pieces.
- Terrorists: Very violent people who kill, or promise to kill, other people if they don't get what they want.
- Throw: To make something move through the air.
- Tough: Strong, hard, brave.
- Transmitter: A radio that sends messages.
- Tray: A piece of wood, for carrying food and drink.
