leans
English
editPronunciation
editVerb
editleans
- third-person singular simple present indicative of lean
Noun
editleans
- (aviation, with the) A dangerous sensory illusion where the pilot of an aircraft believes themselves to be in a bank when they are actually wings-level, or vice-versa, often resulting in spatial disorientation and loss of control of the aircraft.
- If you don't use your flight instruments when flying in cloud, you can easily get the leans and enter a fatal graveyard spiral.
- plural of lean
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editEtymology
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editleans
References
edit- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (laiens)