control tower
Noun
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Noun
control tower (plural control towers)
- (aviation) An airport building from which the air traffic control unit monitors and directs the movement of aircraft on and around the airport.
- 1947 June 9, "[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,779040,00.html National Affairs: Holocaust at LaGuardia]," Time:
- As he taxied out to the far side of the field, 38-year-old Captain Benton R. ("Lucky") Baldwin was cleared for takeoff. The control tower gave him his choice of two runways—No. 13 or No. 18.
- 1947 June 9, "[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,779040,00.html National Affairs: Holocaust at LaGuardia]," Time:
- An enclosed, raised structure occupied by one or more persons who operate or exercise control over railway traffic, ship movement, a racetrack, machinery, etc.
- 1941 Nov 17, "[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,795571,00.html Catastrophe: Crash at Dunkirk]," Time:
- In a railway control tower at Dunkirk, Ohio, Operator Cliff Schwartzkopf waited for the Pennsylvania's Pennsylvanian, eastbound from Chicago to New York.
- 2006 Jan. 29, Thomas Fuller, "China trade unbalances shipping ↗," New York Times (retrieved 18 Jan 2012):
- From the control tower high above the sprawling container port here, Danny Law helps manage the relentless loading and unloading of cargo, day and night.
- 1941 Nov 17, "[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,795571,00.html Catastrophe: Crash at Dunkirk]," Time:
- nontowered
- French: tour de contrôle
- German: Kontrollturm, Tower
- Italian: torre di controllo
- Portuguese: torre de controle, torre de controlo
- Russian: кома́ндно-диспе́тчерский пу́нкт
- Spanish: torre de control
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