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Aircraft ground handling
Aircraft ground handling covers the services an aircraft needs between arrival at and departure from an airport gate, from passenger check-in to refueling, de-icing, and pushback.
Aircraft hijacking
Aircraft hijacking, also known as skyjacking or air piracy, is the unlawful seizure of an aircraft, peaking in the late 1960s and early 1970s before airport screening.
Aircraft in fiction
Aircraft in fiction is the portrayal of airplanes, aircrews, and air travel in film, television, and literature, a body of work that has grown alongside aviation itself.
Aircraft industry of Russia
The aircraft industry of Russia, also known as the Russian aerospace industry, builds military and civil aircraft under the United Aircraft Corporation, organized in 2006 within Rostec.
Aircraft lease
Aircraft lease: contract letting an airline use an aircraft from a lessor. Also operating lease, finance lease, wet/dry lease (ACMI), sale-leaseback; over half of commercial aircraft leased, 69% managed from Ireland.
Aircraft maintenance
Aircraft maintenance, also known as Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul, is the preservation, inspection, overhaul, and repair of aircraft to keep them airworthy, spanning scheduled programs, unscheduled repairs, and regulatory recordkeeping.
Aircraft maintenance checks
Aircraft maintenance checks are scheduled inspections at fixed intervals of flight hours, cycles, or time, from overnight walk-arounds to heavy checks keeping airliners out of service for weeks.
Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion
Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) was a joint US Air Force and Atomic Energy Commission program from 1951 to 1961 to develop a nuclear reactor power plant for military aircraft.
Aircraft pilot
An aircraft pilot, or airplane pilot, is a person who controls the flight of an airplane, helicopter, or other aircraft, whether private, commercial, military, or airline.
Aircraft piston engine
An aircraft piston engine is a reciprocating internal combustion engine that burns fuel in cylinders and drives a propeller, built in spark-ignition gasoline and diesel versions and still common in general aviation.
Aircraft piston engines by decade
Aircraft piston engines by decade covers aero piston engine development from WWI rotary engines to 28-cylinder radials of 3,500 hp, before turbines displaced pistons after 1950.
Aircraft principal axes
Aircraft principal axes, also known as yaw, pitch and roll, are the three perpendicular axes through an aircraft's center of gravity about which roll, pitch, and yaw are measured.
Aircraft registration
Aircraft registration is the entry of a civil aircraft on a state's national register, which gives it that state's nationality and assigns a distinctive mark displayed on its hull.
Aircraft rescue and firefighting
Aircraft rescue and firefighting (ARFF) is the specialized airport emergency service responding to aircraft accidents and fires on or near an airfield, distinct from municipal fire departments.
Aircraft seat map
An aircraft seat map, also known as an airline seating chart, is a diagram of an airplane's cabin showing seats and rows; airlines display it so passengers can choose seats.
Aircraft tires
Aircraft tires are pneumatic tires that carry an airplane's weight on the ground and absorb landing loads, built in bias-ply and radial constructions and often retreaded.
Aircrew
Aircrew, also known as flight crew, is the collective term for the people who operate an aircraft in flight, including pilots, flight engineers, and cabin crew.
AirDrop
AirDrop is a built-in file-transfer feature of Apple's iOS, iPadOS, and macOS that wirelessly sends photos and documents between nearby Apple devices over Bluetooth and peer-to-peer Wi-Fi, introduced in 2011.
AIRE
AIRE (autoimmune regulator), HGNC:360, Gene ID 326, is a chromosome 21 gene encoding a transcriptional regulator driving thymic tissue-restricted antigen expression; mutations cause APS-1/APECED, an autosomal-recessive autoimmune disease.
Aire de repos
Aire de repos: French term for a motorway rest area, parking with toilets and picnic tables but no fuel or shop, distinct from the aire de service; defined by PIARC and regulated in France.
Airedale Terrier
Airedale Terrier, the "King of Terriers", largest terrier breed, from Yorkshire's Aire valley, crossed from terriers and the Otterhound; WWI messenger and sentry dog, AKC-recognized 1888.
Airedale-Wharfedale Senior Cricket League
Airedale-Wharfedale Senior Cricket League (A&W.S.C.L), Aire-Wharfe League: Yorkshire Saturday cricket league founded 1935 from the Yorkshire Cricket Council's Airedale and Wharfedale Section; predecessor league dated 1892; Premier Division, Waddilove, Birtwhistle, and Chappell cups.
Airey Neave
Airey Neave (1916–1979), British Conservative MP for Abingdon and Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary; first British officer to escape Colditz (1942), MI9 escape-line organizer, Nuremberg interrogator, and Thatcher's 1975 campaign manager, assassinated by an INLA car bomb at Westminster on 30 March 1979.
Airfield damage repair
Airfield damage repair (ADR) is the military practice of locating, classifying, and filling bomb craters on runways; US Air Force doctrine targets a usable surface within 6.5 hours.
Airfoil
An airfoil (called aerofoil in British English) is the cross-sectional shape of a wing, rotor blade, or turbine blade, whose geometry and angle of attack determine lift and drag.
Airforce Festival
The Airforce Festival is a hardstyle and hardcore music festival held at the former Military Air Base Twenthe in Enschede, Netherlands, which ran four editions from 2016 to 2019.
Airgas
Airgas, Inc. is an American distributor of industrial, medical, and specialty gases, welding equipment, and safety products, founded in 1982 and owned by France's Air Liquide since 2016.
Airglow
Airglow, also called nightglow, is a faint, continuous emission of light from a planet's upper atmosphere, caused by atoms and molecules excited by sunlight, distinct from the aurora.
Airglow (aircraft)
Airglow is a British human-powered aircraft designed and built by John and Mark McIntyre of Cambridgeshire, first flown at Duxford airfield in 1990 as a research testbed rather than a prize winner.
Airheads
Airheads is a 1994 American comedy directed by Michael Lehmann, starring Brendan Fraser, Steve Buscemi, and Adam Sandler as the band the Lone Rangers, who hold an LA radio station hostage with water pistols; a flop that became a metal cult favorite.