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Aero Club of America
The Aero Club of America, a New York aviation organization founded in 1905, issued America's first pilot licenses from 1911 and became the National Aeronautic Association in 1922.
Aero Commander
The Aero Commander, built by the Aero Design and Engineering Company, is a family of twin-engine business aircraft produced from 1951 to 1986, later sold as the Twin Commander.
Aero Commander 500 family
The Aero Commander 500 family is an American twin-engined, high-wing business aircraft seating five to eight, produced from 1958, best known through the Shrike Commander variant.
Aero Fighters
Aero Fighters (Sonic Wings, エアロ・ファイターズ) is Video System's 1992 vertical-scrolling arcade shooter with eight pilot characters from four countries, seven boss stages, two-player co-op, SNES ports, Neo Geo sequels, and a 2023 Arcade Archives reissue.
Aero L-39 Albatros
The Aero L-39 Albatros is a two-seat jet trainer built by Aero Vodochody in Czechoslovakia, the standard trainer of the Soviet and Warsaw Pact air forces from 1972.
Aero Spacelines Super Guppy
The Aero Spacelines Super Guppy is an outsized-cargo transport built in 1965 from Boeing 377 airframes to fly Apollo rocket stages, and later carried Airbus parts.
Aero the Acro-Bat
Aero the Acro-Bat is a 1993 Sunsoft/Iguana 2D platformer for Genesis and SNES starring a circus bat fighting Edgar Ektor; remade for GBA in 2002 and re-released by Ratalaika in 2024.
Aéro-Club de France
The Aéro-Club de France, also known as the Aero Club of France, is a French aviation association founded in Paris in 1898, the first national aero club in the world.
Aeroacoustic simulation
Aeroacoustic simulation is the numerical prediction of sound generated by fluid flow, most prominently aircraft engine, rotor, and airframe noise, using direct methods or hybrid CFD with acoustic analogies.
Aeroacoustics
Aeroacoustics is the study of sound generated by fluid flow, founded by James Lighthill in 1952, with its central practical problem the reduction of aircraft noise.
Aerobatic maneuver
An aerobatic maneuver, also called an aerobatic figure or aerial maneuver, is an intentional flight maneuver with an abrupt attitude change or abnormal acceleration, such as inverted flight.
Aerobatics
Aerobatics, also called air acrobatics, is flying intentional maneuvers such as rolls, loops, and inverted flight. It spans FAI competition, air show display flying, and training for recovering from unusual attitudes.
Aerobee
The Aerobee was an American two-stage, liquid-propellant sounding rocket developed by Aerojet for the U.S. Navy from 1946, flying until 1985 and opening X-ray astronomy.
Aerobic digestion
Aerobic digestion is a sludge stabilization method in which microorganisms decompose organic solids with oxygen supplied by aeration, valued at small and medium treatment works for simple operation.
Aerobic exercise
Aerobic exercise: oxygen-dependent physical activity such as walking, jogging, cycling, swimming; also called aerobics (term coined by Kenneth Cooper). WHO recommends 150–300 min moderate or 75–150 min vigorous weekly; improves mortality, cardiovascular, metabolic, and mental health outcomes.
Aerobic fermentation
Aerobic fermentation is the industrial cultivation of microorganisms in aerated, agitated liquid culture, the dominant production method for antibiotics, organic acids, amino acids, vitamins, and enzymes.
Aerobic organism
Aerobic organism (aerobe): an organism requiring molecular oxygen for growth, using it as the terminal electron acceptor in respiration. Includes obligate aerobes like Mycobacterium tuberculosis and microaerophiles needing 1–10% oxygen; defended by superoxide dismutase.
Aerobics
Aerobics: oxygen-fueled exercise and the class-based fitness format coined by Kenneth Cooper in 1968. Covers physiology, WHO 150–300 min/week guidelines, HIIT vs Zone 2, mortality benefits, and fitness history.
Aerobraking
Aerobraking is a spacecraft maneuver that uses atmospheric drag on repeated passes to shrink an elliptical orbit into a circular one, saving rocket fuel; Magellan first demonstrated it at Venus in 1993.
Aerocapture
Aerocapture is an orbit-insertion technique using a single atmospheric pass to slow a spacecraft into orbit instead of a propellant burn, studied since the 1980s but never flown.
Aerocar
The Aerocar, often called the Taylor Aerocar, is an American two-seat roadable aircraft designed by Molt Taylor in Longview, Washington, first flown in 1949 and certified in 1956.
Aerococcus
Aerococcus is a genus of Gram-positive, catalase-negative, alpha-hemolytic cocci (family Aerococcaceae) proposed by Williams, Hirch, and Cowan in 1953 from air and dust; A. urinae and A. sanguinicola are emerging uropathogens identified mainly by MALDI-TOF MS.
Aerodramus
Aerodramus is a genus of small, dark cave-nesting swifts of tropical Asia, Oceania, and northern Australia, known for echolocation and nests harvested as edible bird's nest.
Aerodrome
An aerodrome is a defined area of land or water, with buildings and installations, intended for the arrival, departure, and movement of aircraft; it becomes an airport when certified.
Aerodynamic heating
Aerodynamic heating is the heating of a vehicle's surfaces and surrounding gas during high-speed atmospheric flight, setting design limits for hypersonic aircraft and re-entry vehicles.
Aerodynamic shape optimization
Aerodynamic shape optimization is a computational design method that iteratively reshapes wings, fuselages, and blades to reduce drag, made tractable by the adjoint method, introduced by Antony Jameson in 1988.
Aerodynamics
Aerodynamics is the branch of fluid mechanics that studies forces on objects moving through air, explaining how aircraft generate lift and why drag resists motion.
Aeroelastic model
An aeroelastic model is a physical or computational representation of the coupled aerodynamic, elastic, and inertial forces in a structure, used to predict flutter in aircraft wings and long-span bridges.
Aeroelasticity
Aeroelasticity is the study of the interaction of aerodynamic, elastic, and inertial forces on flexible structures, most prominently aircraft, where it produces phenomena such as flutter.
Aeroflot (Аэрофлот)
Aeroflot is Russia's state-controlled flag carrier, 73.77% owned by the Russian Federation, based at Moscow Sheremetyevo and parent of Rossiya and Pobeda, which carried 55.3 million passengers in 2025.