NOUN
- a tower with an elevated workspace enclosed in glass for the visual observation of aircraft around an airport
How To Use control tower In A Sentence
- The most serious incident was compounded by the failure of a battery powered backup generator in the air traffic control tower.
- The control tower will talk you down to land. The Sun
- The U.S. Marines operate the air-traffic control tower, and a small contingent of U.S. Army troops run the power-production facility.
- There was a shoddy wooden control tower, with a moth-eaten windsock and several obsolete instruments on it.
- The airport has no control tower and does not require pilots to check in with security. Times, Sunday Times
- One great difficulty was that of recruiting radio operators owing to the fact that wireless telegraphy is very little used in the commercial air services over here, which operate by means of the radio ranges, and radio telephony when within range of the control towers of the airfields. Some Aspects of the Royal Air Force Transport Command
- The gleaming new pit complex and control tower along with grandstands and hospitality units has transformed Mondello into a venue of which Irish motorsport can feel justifiably proud.
- The control tower is so noisy with aeroplanes whizzing past.
- The simulator mimics the view, equipment and layout of the new control tower building. Times, Sunday Times
- The pilot renewed contact with the control tower.
