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Aérospatiale
Aérospatiale, also known as SNIAS, was a French state-owned aerospace manufacturer formed in 1970 that co-developed Concorde and helped found Airbus before merging into EADS in 2000.
Aérospatiale Alouette III
The Aérospatiale Alouette III, also built in India as the Chetak, is a French seven-seat light utility helicopter first flown in 1959 and widely used for military and rescue work.
Aérospatiale Gazelle
The Aérospatiale Gazelle, also known as the Westland Gazelle, is a five-seat light helicopter that first flew in 1967 and was the first to use a Fenestron shrouded tail rotor.
Aérospatiale SA 315B Lama
The Aérospatiale SA 315B Lama, also known as the Aérospatiale Lama, is a French light helicopter for hot and high operations, first flown in 1969.
Aérospatiale SA 321 Super Frelon
The Aérospatiale SA 321 Super Frelon is a French three-engined heavy transport helicopter, the largest ever built in France, which set three rotorcraft speed records in 1963.
Aérospatiale SA 330 Puma
The Aérospatiale SA 330 Puma is a French twin-engine transport helicopter, first flown in 1965, that carried troops and cargo for military and civil operators worldwide.
Aerospike engine
The aerospike engine, also called the aerospike rocket engine, is a rocket engine whose exhaust expands against a central plug, making the nozzle altitude compensating at all altitudes.
Aerostar Airport Holdings
Aerostar Airport Holdings is a Puerto Rican private company that has operated Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan under a 40-year lease since 2013.
Aerostat
An aerostat, or aerostatic balloon, is a lighter-than-air aircraft lifted by gas buoyancy, most commonly a tethered unmanned balloon holding cameras, radar, or communications payloads at a fixed station for surveillance.
Aerotech (company)
Aerotech is a privately held American manufacturer of precision motion control and automation products, founded in Pittsburgh in 1970, serving semiconductor, optics, and aerospace industries.
Aérotrain
The Aérotrain was a French experimental high-speed vehicle that floated on an air cushion above a concrete track, developed under engineer Jean Bertin from 1965 to the late 1970s.
AeroVironment
AeroVironment is an American defense technology company in Arlington, Virginia, founded in 1971 by Paul MacCready and known for its Switchblade loitering munitions and Raven and Puma drones.
AeroVironment Helios
The AeroVironment Helios Prototype was a solar-powered flying wing built by AeroVironment under NASA's ERAST program, reaching a record 96,863 feet over Hawaii in 2001 before crashing in 2003.
AeroVironment Pathfinder
The AeroVironment Pathfinder, a solar-powered remotely piloted flying wing originally built as the classified HALSOL aircraft, set altitude records for solar and propeller-driven flight, reaching 80,201 feet in 1998.
AeroVironment Quantix
The AeroVironment Quantix is a hybrid VTOL drone made by AeroVironment of California that takes off vertically on four rotors, then flies on its wings for farm mapping.
AeroVironment RQ-11 Raven
The AeroVironment RQ-11 Raven, or RQ-11B Raven, is a small hand-launched fixed-wing drone the United States Army adopted in 2004 for short-range reconnaissance and surveillance.
AeroVironment RQ-14 Dragon Eye
The AeroVironment RQ-14 Dragon Eye was a hand-launched, battery-powered miniature drone developed by the Naval Research Laboratory that gave US Marine Corps small units reconnaissance capability in Iraq and Afghanistan before replacement by the RQ-11B Raven.
AeroVironment RQ-20 Puma
The AeroVironment RQ-20 Puma, also called the Puma AE, is a small hand-launched surveillance drone built by AeroVironment and flown by the US military since 2008.
AeroVironment Snipe
The AeroVironment Snipe is a 140-gram nano quadrotor drone built by AeroVironment for close-range military surveillance, unveiled May 9, 2017 at the AUVSI XPONENTIAL conference in Dallas.
AeroVironment Switchblade
The AeroVironment Switchblade, also called the Switchblade drone, is a family of man-portable loitering munitions built by AeroVironment for the United States military and allies.
Aerozine 50
Aerozine 50 is a rocket fuel of equal parts hydrazine and unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (UDMH); paired with nitrogen tetroxide, it ignites on contact and powered Titan rockets and Apollo spacecraft engines.
Aershan Oil Field
The Aershan Oil Field (阿尔善) is an oil field in the Erlian Basin of Inner Mongolia, China, discovered in 1981 and operated by PetroChina Huabei Oilfield Company.
Aertai Amusement Park
Aertai Amusement Park (阿尔泰游乐园, Altai Amusement Park) is a 64-hectare amusement park in Xincheng District, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, opened May 1, 2005, operated by Hohhot Huachun Amusement Park Co., and renovated with new rides including an 88-meter Ferris wheel in 2025–2026.
AES Andes
AES Andes is a Chilean power generation and transmission company, a subsidiary of AES Corporation, operating 5,371 MW across Chile, Colombia, and Argentina as of 2025.
AES Corporation
AES Corporation is a Fortune 500 power company headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, founded in 1981, operating electricity generation and utilities across the US and Latin America.
AES Indiana
AES Indiana, formerly Indianapolis Power & Light Company (IPL), is a regulated electric utility serving Indianapolis and central Indiana, renamed in 2021 as a subsidiary of The AES Corporation.
AES instruction set
The AES instruction set, also known as AES New Instructions (AES-NI), is a set of x86 processor instructions that performs AES encryption in hardware, introduced by Intel in 2010.
AES Ohio
AES Ohio, the trade name of The Dayton Power and Light Company, is a regulated electric utility headquartered in Dayton, Ohio, serving over 527,000 customers across 24 counties.
AES3
AES3, commonly called the AES/EBU interface, is a standard for transmitting two channels of digital audio, published by the Audio Engineering Society and the European Broadcasting Union.
Aesacus Dorsum
Aesacus Dorsum is a ridge (dorsum) on Mars, IAU approved in 1985, named from a classical albedo feature at 45N, 205W; centered near 36.8N, 153.1E with a recorded diameter of about 264-277 km.