FLYING TERMS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 17, 21 January 1927, Page 5

FLYING TERMS

Because the development of commercial aeronautics has led to the use of many "shop" phrases and terms applicable only to that industry, an official dictionary, including some 2000 of them, has been prepared by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, states the "New York Times." "Nomenclature for Aeronautics" is the name of the new volume, soon to be issued by the Government Printing Office in Washington. This book replaces an earlier pamphlet issued by the same committee in 1923. The first attempt at clarifying and codifying the new language of aeronautics was but half the size of the current publication. Many of both the words and definitions are strange to the uninitiated, despite the fact that in numerous cases the "Nomenclature" has tried to simplify a number of controversial terms. Aeronautics" is called "the science and art pertaining to the flight oi aircraft," as distinguished from "aviation, which is defined as "the art of operating heavier-than-air craft," aud aerostatation" is termed "the art of operating aerostats," which is another way of saying hghter-tlmn-air craft.