"This Handbook has been compiled for students of Russian at Service and Civil Aviation Language Schools and is intended to provide them with a large selection of basic terms currently used in Modern Aeronautics. To achieve this purpose the book contains short articles (average 140 words each) describing basic aeronautical and rocketry equipment, flying and ground operations and other Aviation activities, all set in ordinary conversational language. In some cases, idiomatic service expressions are used...Illustrations set out at the end of the Handbook show basic aeronautical equipment and carry captions, specifying component parts in Russian, together with English equivalents"--Introduction.