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airstair

nounC2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechToo rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Other forms: airstairs

An airstair is the steps rolled up to an aircraft door. Wheel up the airstair.

Some aircraft carry their own built into the door, which lets them use airports with nothing. An airstair in wind and rain is the reason everybody prefers a jetty.

Bill Larkins · CC BY-SA 2.0

Definitions of airstair

  1. 1nounairstairThe steps rolled up to an aircraft door.C2

    “The airstair was pushed up by two people in the rain.”

airstair is steps.

Where it comes from

Air plus stair; the built-in kind was developed so aircraft could serve airfields with no ground equipment.

From air + stair.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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airstair in the wild

  • The S-29-A was also one of the first aircraft to make use of an airstair door, located on the starboard side of the fuselage.

    Sikorsky S-29-A

  • Cooper device, is a mechanical aerodynamic wedge that prevents the ventral airstair of an aircraft from being lowered in flight.

    Cooper vane

  • An airstair is a set of steps built into an aircraft so that passengers and crew can get on and off without needing help from outside.

    Airstair

  • Some of the earliest aircraft with airstairs were the Martin 2-0-2 and Martin 4-0-4.

    Airstair

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.