flight engineer

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   the flight crewman responsible for mechanical operation while in flight

   Broaderaircrewman

Questions about flight engineer

What does flight engineer mean?

flight engineer means "the flight crewman responsible for mechanical operation while in flight".

Is flight engineer a common word?

flight engineer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.