bird
n. an airplane.I like this bird. She's a dream to fly.The bird crashed on takeoff.
bump
tr. to remove someone from an airplane flight, usually involuntarily, because of overbooking.They bumped me, but gave me something to make up for it.Is this airline in the habit of bumping old ladies?
chopper
n. a helicopter.The chopper that monitors the traffic goes over my house every morning at 6:00.I never want to ride in a chopper. Those things scare me.
egg-beater
n. a helicopter.The eggbeater landed on the hospital roof.I would think that egg-beaters all over the place would disturb the patients.
fling-wing
n. a helicopter.The flingwing from the radio station is hovering over the traffic jam.There must be a dozen fling-wings up there making all that noise.
flyboy
n. a pilot. (Military.)Rocko was a flyboy in Korea.Those flyboys have it easy.
hop
tr. to get aboard a plane or train.I'll hop a plane and be there in a couple of hours.Hop a train or anything, but get here as soon as you can.
no show and no-show
n. someone who doesn't show up for something, such as an airline flight.The flight was cancelled because there were too many noshows.I have never been a no show, but my brother does it all the time.
on the beam
mod. homing in on an aviation radio beam. (No longer a major navigational device.)The plane was on the beam and landed safely in the fog.I couldn't get on the beam, and I flew right over the airfield.
puddle jumper
n. a small airplane.I'm not going to fly 200 miles in that puddle jumper!My uncle has his own puddle jumper.
rotorhead
n. a helicopter pilot or member of a helicopter crew. (Military. Also a term of address.)Radio those rotorheads and tell them to get back to the base, now!Hey, rotorhead, where's your eggbeater?
sky
in. to travel (to somewhere) in an airplane.I decided to sky down to lando for the weekend.Let's sky to New York and then go on to London.
stew
n. a stewardess or steward on an airplane.The stew brought the coffee and rolls.My sister is a stew for a major airline.
stick
n. the lever that controls the horizontal and vertical surfaces of the tail of an aircraft.The pilot pulled back on the stick, and the plane did nothing—being that he hadn't even started the engine or anything.You pull back on the stick, which lowers the tail and raises the nose, and up you go.
whirlybird
n. a helicopter.See that whirlybird up there? It's timing your speed. Slow down.The whirlybird landed on the roof of the hospital.
wing
in. to travel by airplane.We winged to Budapest and attended the conference.They winged from there to London.
zoomies
n. members of the U.S. Air Force. (A nickname used by the Army. Persian Gulf War.)The zoomies attacked the airfield and damaged a lot of planes.The zoomies attacked the spy headquarters and caused a lot of damage.