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flameouts

Military
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Sudden failures or extinguishing of aircraft engines. In aviation, a flameout means an engine stops burning properly.

Detailed Definition
Flameout is an aviation term for the loss of combustion in a jet engine, causing it to stop producing thrust. The poem uses the plural form to describe all four engines failing, which is central to the crisis.
Example
Example in poetry:
“Four flameouts in the dead of night” uses the aviation meaning: an engine’s flame extinguishes, leaving a pilot without power; In a war poem, “the bomber coughed, then flameout after flameout” can make mechanical failure immediate and frightening; Contemporary flight imagery might say, “At thirty thousand feet, one flameout changed the cabin’s hush,” using the term literally; Figuratively, “his campaign ended in a flameout” transfers the sudden failure of an engine to an ambition, career, or relationship
Additional Notes
The quoted line uses flameouts in a technical aviation sense that ordinary readers may not know.; Found in the poem, Speedbird 9 by Richard
Also Known As
burnout collapse failure exhaustion
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