Aerodrome - What does it mean?
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An airfield:
# (legal, Australia, Canada, term of art) Any area of land or water used for aircraft operation, regardless of facilities.
# An airfield used for managed aircraft operation, either military or civilian, having such facilities as are necessary for operation.
#* 1928 June 30, Kenya Gazette ,
#* 1998 , Walter Schwenk, Rüdiger Schwenk, Aspects Of International Cooperation In Air Traffic Management ,
# (British) An airfield equipped with air traffic control facilities and hangars as well as accommodation for passengers and cargo; an airport.
(obsolete) A flying machine composed of aeroplanes. An aeroplane, particularly one constructed by or according to the design of '' — The term ''aeroplane'' is understood to apply to flat sustaining surfaces, but experiment indicates that arched surfaces are more efficient. S. P. Langley proposed the word ''aerodrome , which seems the preferable term for apparatus with wing-line surfaces.
* 1908 June 8, , Page 6,
* 1911 October, The Progress of Science: Langley Memoir on Mechanical Flight'', '' ,
* 1914 December, '',
* 1918 , Automotive Industries , Volume 39,
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(en noun)page 862,
- Any person authorised by the Governor shall have the right of access at all reasonable times to any aerodrome' other than a Royal Air Force '''aerodrome''' for the purpose of inspecting the ' aerodrome ,.
page 15,
- Apart from these aerodromes' where ATC services have been established, a number of ' aerodromes exist where ATC services are not provided. In such cases the establishment of ATC services may be required by the aerodrome operators.
- The Langley and Maxim aerodromes , which did not soar, were in my opinion better pieces of mechanism than their very latest imitations.
- An aerodrome , chiefly of steel, weighing, apart from fuel and water, about twenty-four pounds, was launched on the Potomac River on May 6, 1896, and flew for over half a mile.
page 811,
- This was apparently due to the weakness of the old Manley motor with which the aerodrome was originally equipped and which was capable of developing only 52 horsepower.
page 718,
- During the years 1892 and 1893 four steam-propelled aerodromes were constructed.
