December 2021 Crossword Key

December 2021 Crossword
December 2021 Crossword

Across

1 Vintage military planes

6 DA 40 Tundra ____

9 Expert flier

11 Lockheed’s P-80 ____ ____ (2 words)

12 Any lighter-than-air craft that is powered and steerable

13 Sun Devils’ school, abbr.

14 Popular

15 Light wind

17 Gee or Bumble plane

19 In a crosswind or tailwind, this can be tricky

20 Hinged metal cover over an engine

24 Coat or soup

25 Electric urban air taxis

27 Aviation acronym for required

28 Instability in the atmosphere

Down

1 Apple state, abbr.

2 The document stating the level of required achievement, abbr.

3 Bring back on board in a company

4 Mechanical horizon enabler (2 words)

5 Bounce, in basketball

7 Japanese aviation company offering a multicopter kit aircraft

8 Send a plane to a different airport, for example

10 A stern captain might be accused of being one of these

12 In aviation, it doesn’t make perfect but can improve proficiency

16 What an airline pilot shared domicile might be called

17 Radar flashes

18 For the two “best” airspeeds, this one gets you higher in a shorter distance

20 Famed search and rescue organization, abbr.

21 A tire’s best friend

22 Compass point

23 Dashboard instrument

25 With this, you must know the “to” and the “from”

December 2021 Crossword Key

Isabel Goyer

A commercial pilot, Isabel Goyer has been flying for more than 40 years, with hundreds of different aircraft in her logbook and thousands of hours. An award-winning aviation writer, photographer and editor, Ms. Goyer led teams at Sport Pilot, Air Progress and Flying before coming to Plane & Pilot in 2015.
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