ground loop

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   a sharp uncontrollable turn made by an airplane while moving along the ground

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Questions about ground loop

What does ground loop mean?

ground loop means "a sharp uncontrollable turn made by an airplane while moving along the ground".

Is ground loop a common word?

ground loop 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.