Exercise 1. Transcribe the following words and give them your own definitions. Check in the dictionary whether you are correct

Accident-prone, inaccurate, non-conducting, catastrophic, coarse, boots, dispatch, ram, turbine, cyclic, ultrasound, altitude, buffer, flammability, incursion, centrifugal, turbofan, falconers, windshields, shotgun.

Exercise 2. Answer the following questions.

1. What are the main factors influencing the aviation safety?

2. How can the ice effect on airplane?

3. What is meant under the term “metal fatigue”?

4. What measures were taken to combat with fire that may occur on board?

5. What is bird strike?

6. When the possibility of a bird strike is the most likely to happen? Why?

7. What can cause a pilot to fly in an accident-prone manner?

8. What was the reason of the accident where Southwest Airlines crashed?

9. What are “fire bottles”?

10. What do the airports do to prevent bird strikes?

Exercise 3. Finish the following sentences.

1. The main reason of aircraft accidents are…

2. In 1999 the destruction of the glider became a ground to think that…

3. Before using of the aircraft in commercial service…

4. Current aircraft prevent the occurring of ice by…

5. Power loss if one or even more engines is not fatal but only in case if…

6. Most delamination problems were discovered…

7. Devices that warn the pilot when the plane's speed is coming close to the stall speed are…

8. Baggage holds are likely to set on fire but they are equipped…

9. Bird strike is a threat…

10.Due to the fact that the fan of a high-bypass turbofan engine, acts as a centrifugal separator small fast planes…

11. To active countermeasures against the bird refer…

Exercise 4. Match the word to the most appropriate translation.

1. in an accident-prone manner

a. небезпечним шляхом;

b. неправильним чином;

c. у небезпечних умовах;

d. у нещасній манері.

2. positive lightning

a. позитивна блискавка;

b. позитивно-заряджена блискавка;

c. правильне освітлення;

d. безперебійний спалах.

3. traditional metal-covered aircraft

a. традиційний метало вкритий літак;

b. літак зі звичайним металевим покриттям;

c. звичайний літак, вкритий металом;

d. класичне металеве покриття літака.

4. icy conditions

a. умови надзвичайного холоду;

b. льодисті обставини;

с. oжеледь;

d. байдужі умови.

Exercise 5. Match the words in column A with a word in column B in order to make an appropriate word-combinations.

A	B
1. accident-prone 2. fuel 3. in-flight 4. engineering 5. coarse 6. emergency 7. warning 8. cyclic 9. inaccurate 10. cargo	1. horns 2. frost 3. instructions 4. holds 5. stress 6. landing 7. exhaustion 8. manner 9. laboratory 10. icing conditions