| TAILPLANE | Hear simple story swapped on an aircraft (9) |
| WASHEDOUT | He was swapped on party duty, stripped and exhausted |
| HOLOGRAM | Hit record swapped on hard disk image (8) |
| NARRATIVE | King Rat featuring in simple story (9) |
| ALTIMETER | Height gauge on an aircraft (9) |
| TURBOPROP | Jet engine on an aircraft in which a propeller is driven by a gas turbine (9) |
| THEFLDECK | Where jets land on an aircraft carrier |
| DELTAWING | Triangular stabilizer on an aircraft |
| NAVYPILOT | One landing on an aircraft carrier |
| ANTIFLASH | Describing paint on an aircraft, used to reflect thermal radiation from a nuclear explosion (4-5) |
| PARABLE | Simple story about bare pal (7) |
| ONLY | The ___, 1978 Nell Dunn novel subtitled A Simple Story of Heaven and Hell (4,5) |
| FLIGHTDECK | The flat open surface on an aircraft carrier from which aircraft take off and on which they land (6,4) |
| NACELLE | From "little boat", a passenger car of an airship; or, an enclosure on an aircraft, housing its engine or fuel (7) |
| AUTOMATICPILOT | George on an aircraft? (9,5) |
| FLIGHTDECKS | The flat, open surfaces on an aircraft carrier from which aircraft take off and land (6,5) |
| AILERON | Flap on an aircraft wing (7) |
| ABOARD | A panel on an aircraft, perhaps (6) |
| HATCH | Door on an aircraft or boat |
| HOSTESS | Stewardess on an aircraft (7) |
