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aircraft are controlled directly by a flight computer,
which processes input from a control stick.
flying wing An aircraft whose entire fuselage generates
lift.
Fokker Anthony Fokker, Dutch aircraft designer who
built fighters for the Germans during WWI. After the
Armistice, Fokker continued building aircraft in Holland.
fouled deck An aircraft carrier deck that is not ready to
receive aircraft.
Foxbat MiG-25.
Foxhound MIG-31.
free-fall bomb A bomb propelled solely by its own
weight.
Frogfoot Su-25.
Fulcrum MIG-29.
g A unit of force equal to the gravitational pull exerted by
the earth on a stationary object. Accelerating objects
(such as an aircraft and its pilot) will experience
different amounts of g force, depending on the degree to
which they are accelerating.