Spotter: Any person who practises aircraft recognition. Industrial raid spotters were employed by vital factories and organisations during the Second World War.
Squadron: A Royal Air Force formation of two or more flights.
A Spotter's Guide to Training Airplanes
What sort of wings await you at your local flight school? Two- and four-seat trainers, some with wings on top of the fuselage and some with wings below are popular at flight schools.
FRAME (spotter term) aircraft itself. Counted by construction number.
FUSELAGE The main body of the aircraft.
World War One saw the emergence of air power in the military field - initially as 'spotter' planes, then as fighters and finally bombers.
Pilots such as Max Immelmann and Oswald Boelcke began as lone hunters, shooting unarmed spotter planes and enemy aircraft out of the sky.[12] During the first part of the war, there was no established tactical doctrine for air-to-air combat.
Warnings are issued by local NWS offices when severe thunderstorms or tornadoes are indicated by weather radar, weather observers or trained spotters.
With improved coordination with ground spotters, three-plane formations at high altitude had proven to be superb ground-attack weapons.
 See also: Plane, Aircraft, Aviation, Direct, Speed
  
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