power loading

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   the ratio of the weight of an airplane to its engine power

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Questions about power loading

What does power loading mean?

power loading means "the ratio of the weight of an airplane to its engine power".

Is power loading a common word?

power loading 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.