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Aerial camera
An aerial camera is a camera designed to photograph the ground from aircraft, with calibrated geometry precise enough that positions on the ground can be measured from images.
Aerial engagements of the Second Sino-Japanese War
Aerial engagements of the Second Sino-Japanese War were the air operations over China from July 1937 to Japan's 1945 surrender, fought by Chinese, Japanese, Soviet, and American air forces.
Aerial firefighting
Aerial firefighting, also called water bombing, is the use of aircraft to drop water or fire retardant on wildfires, with airtankers, scoopers, and helicopters performing the drops.
Aerial lift
Aerial lift: passenger ropeway with chairs or cabins on cables. Types: fixed/detachable chairlifts, gondolas, tramways, funitels. Speeds 2-6 m/s, capacities to 4,500 pph; ANSI B77.1 and EU 2016/424 govern.
Aerial Lift Bridge
The Aerial Lift Bridge, also called the Duluth Aerial Bridge, is a movable vertical lift bridge in Duluth, Minnesota, built in 1905 and converted to a lift bridge in 1930.
Aerial manned-unmanned teaming
Aerial manned-unmanned teaming, also known as Manned-Unmanned Teaming (MUM-T), is the coordinated operation of crewed aircraft and autonomous drones as a single team under a human pilot.
Aerial photogrammetry
Aerial photogrammetry is a remote sensing technique that derives measurements and maps of the Earth's surface from overlapping aerial photographs, producing digital elevation models, orthophotos, and dense 3D point clouds.
Aerial photography
Aerial photography, also known as air photography, takes photographs of the ground from balloons, kites, pigeons, aircraft, drones, or spacecraft, first achieved from a balloon near Paris in 1858.
Aerial ramming
Aerial ramming, or air ramming, is the deliberate collision of one aircraft with another to destroy it, a last-ditch air combat tactic first recorded in 1914.
Aerial Reconfigurable Embedded System
The Aerial Reconfigurable Embedded System (ARES), from DARPA's Transformer TX program, is a modular VTOL unmanned aircraft with interchangeable mission modules, first flown by Piasecki in 2024.
Aerial reconnaissance
Aerial reconnaissance, also called photo reconnaissance, is the collection of intelligence from the air by aircraft, drones, balloons, or satellites, used for military and weather purposes.
Aerial refueling
Aerial refueling, also called air-to-air refueling or tanking, transfers fuel from a tanker aircraft to a receiver in flight, first done between two US Army DH-4B aircraft in 1923.
Aerial Robotics Laboratory
The Aerial Robotics Lab is a research group of Imperial College London's Department of Aeronautics that designs and tests advanced aerial robots, led by Mirko Kovac.
Aerial survey
An aerial survey is a remote sensing method that collects imagery or sensor data from aircraft or drones to map terrain, vegetation, infrastructure, or property, producing orthomosaics, terrain models, and 3D point clouds.
Aerial torpedo
An aerial torpedo, also called an air-dropped torpedo, is a torpedo released from an aircraft to run through water and strike a ship; US Navy experiments began around 1910.
Aerial tramway
Aerial tramway (reversible or jig-back ropeway): two large fixed-grip cabins shuttling between terminals on a cable loop. Invented after Wilhelm Albert's 1830s wire rope; used for ski resorts, tourism, and urban transit such as Roosevelt Island and Medellín.
Aerial triangulation
Aerial triangulation, also called aerotriangulation, is a photogrammetric process that orients all images in an overlapping aerial block simultaneously against limited ground control, using bundle block adjustment.
Aerial warfare
Aerial warfare, also known as aerial combat, is the conduct of military operations in the air, emerging in the First World War and now reshaped by drones.
Aerial warfare in the Winter War
Aerial warfare in the Winter War was the 1939–1940 air campaign in which Finland's small, obsolete fighter force inflicted heavy losses on the vastly larger Soviet Air Forces.
AERIAL-CORE
AERIAL-CORE was a European Horizon 2020 research project from 2019 to 2023, coordinated by the University of Seville, that developed autonomous aerial robots for power line inspection and maintenance.
Aeriel Leonard
Aeriel D.M. Leonard is an American materials scientist and assistant professor at Ohio State University who studies fatigue in lightweight alloys and received the 2025 PECASE award.
Aerin Frankel
Aerin Jordan Frankel, American ice hockey goaltender, Boston Fleet (PWHL) and Team USA; 2026 Olympic gold medalist with 3 shutouts and .980 save percentage; IIHF record 4 shutouts at 2024 Worlds; 2021 Patty Kazmaier Award winner.
Aerin Medical
Aerin Medical is a privately held medical-device company founded in 2011. It treats nasal airway obstruction and chronic rhinitis using FDA-cleared radiofrequency systems, with over 200,000 patients treated.
Aerion AS2
The Aerion AS2 was a proposed three-engine supersonic business jet developed by Aerion Corporation to cruise at Mach 1.4, canceled in 2021 after funding efforts failed.
Aeritalia G.222
The Aeritalia G.222, known as the C-27A Spartan in US service, is an Italian twin-turboprop tactical transport first flown in 1970, which served the Italian Air Force and was redeveloped into the Alenia C-27J Spartan.
Aerith Gainsborough
Aerith Gainsborough (エアリス・ゲインズブール, also localized Aeris) is the flower-selling last Cetra of Final Fantasy VII, killed by Sephiroth in 1997 in one of gaming's most iconic scenes, and a central figure in the Remake trilogy.
Aeriz
Aeriz (Aeriz Holdings Corp.) is a Chicago-based, privately held multi-state cannabis company founded in the mid-2010s that grows cannabis aeroponically, without soil, and is described as the largest aeroponic cannabis cultivator in the United States.
Aermacchi MB-339
The Aermacchi MB-339 is an Italian two-seat jet trainer and light attack aircraft, serving the Italian Air Force since 1979 and flying with the Frecce Tricolori.
AERMOD
AERMOD (American Meteorological Society/EPA Regulatory Model) is the US EPA's Gaussian plume air dispersion model, preferred for near-field regulatory use since 2005 and fully replacing ISC3 in 2006.
Aero Ae-45
The Aero Ae-45, also known as the Aero 45, is a Czechoslovak four- to five-seat, twin-engine light transport aircraft that first flew in July 1947.