Answer to "Type of aircraft" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word GLIDER , but the solution may also be STOL which is one of the most recent solution (1984 in New York Times).

Type of aircraft crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
GLIDER	33 %	6
GIRO	33 %	4
STOL	33 %	4

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Type of aircraft

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• helicopter
• airplane
• jet
• rocket
• balloon
• dirigible
• zeppelin
• airship
• prop
• airfoil
• gyro
• flying machine

Crossword Answer definitions

GLIDER noun

1. The act of gliding.
2. A transitional sound, especially a semivowel.
3. An attack or preparatory movement made by sliding down the opponent’s blade, keeping it in constant contact.
4. A bird, the glede or kite.
5. A kind of cap affixed to the base of the legs of furniture to prevent it from damaging the floor.
6. The joining of two sounds without a break.
7. A smooth and sliding step in dancing the waltz.

GLIDER noun

1. One who glides.
2. Any heavier-than-air aircraft optimised for unpowered flight; a sailplane.
3. A pilot of glider aircraft.
4. Any animal with the ability to glide, such as the gliding possum.
5. A kind of garden swing.
6. In the Game of Life cellular automaton, a particular configuration of five cells that recurs periodically at fixed offsets and appears to "walk" across the grid.
7. A vehicle, of a usually motorised type, without a powertrain.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution

More clues leading to the result GLIDER

• Sailplane
• Flier without fumes
• Stealth flier
• Type of porch swing
• Motorless flier
• Eagle, at times
• Windborne flier
• Quiet aircraft
• Noiseless aircraft
• Engineless aircraft

More clues leading to the result GIRO

• __ d'Italia (bicycle race)
• Copter forerunner
• Aircraft type, for short
• Copter's forerunner
• Copter predecessor
• Early whirlybird
• Helicopter's predecessor, briefly
• Old rotorcraft, for short
• Early whirlybird, for short
• Early copter

More clues leading to the result STOL

• Convertiplane, in brief
• Mil. craft for small runways
• Aircraft abbr.
• Small-strip aircraft acronym
• Carrier plane feature: abbr.
• Plane that needs little runway, briefly
• Abbr. for an aircraft not needing a long runway
• Type of aircraft, for short
• Vertical take-off plane
• Airplane acronym