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MTU Friedrichshafen
MTU Friedrichshafen GmbH is a German diesel engine maker founded in 1969 and based in Friedrichshafen, now part of Rolls-Royce Power Systems and selling under the mtu brand.
MU90 Impact
The MU90 Impact, also known as the Eurotorp MU90, is a Franco-Italian electrically powered lightweight torpedo for anti-submarine warfare from ships, helicopters, and aircraft, in service since 2007 with 13 navies.
Muhammad Mahmood Alam (محمد محمود عالم)
Muhammad Mahmood Alam, known as M. M. Alam, was a Pakistani fighter pilot credited by the Pakistan Air Force with nine kills, including five Hunters in under a minute, during the 1965 war.
Multi-crew pilot licence
The multi-crew pilot license (MPL) is a commercial pilot license defined by ICAO in 2006 that qualifies a pilot to act as co-pilot in commercial air transport on multi-crew aeroplanes.
MultiGP
MultiGP (short for Multirotor Grand Prix) is a grassroots drone racing league founded in 2015 by Chris Thomas. It claims over 30,000 registered pilots and 500 chapters worldwide.
Multilateration
Multilateration is a positioning technique that determines an object's location from time-based signal measurements at multiple stations, notably used for air traffic surveillance of aircraft.
Multirole combat aircraft
A multirole combat aircraft, also called a multirole fighter, is a combat aircraft able to perform both air-to-air and air-to-surface missions, such as ISR and strike.
Munich air disaster
The Munich air disaster was the February 1958 crash of a Manchester United charter flight on take-off at Munich-Riem Airport in West Germany, killing 23 people, including eight players.
Munich Airport
Munich Airport, formally Franz Josef Strauss Airport (Flughafen München-Franz-Josef-Strauß), is the international airport of Munich, Bavaria, opened in 1992 northeast of the city and now Germany's second-largest airport and a Lufthansa hub.
Murtala Muhammed International Airport
Murtala Muhammed International Airport, also known as Lagos Airport, is Nigeria's busiest airport, serving Lagos from Ikeja and named for the military ruler assassinated in 1976.
Muscat International Airport (مطار مسقط الدولي)
Muscat International Airport (مطار مسقط الدولي), formerly Seeb International Airport, is the main airport of Oman, about 30 kilometers west of Muscat, and the hub of Oman Air.
Musculair
Musculair refers to two human-powered aircraft built by Munich designer Günter Rochelt in the 1980s, winning a Kremer prize in 1984 and a speed record in 1985.
Museum of Flight
The Museum of Flight is an independent nonprofit air and space museum beside Boeing Field in Seattle, Washington, holding 150 aircraft and describing itself as the world's largest of its kind.
My Freighter Airlines
My Freighter Airlines is a private cargo airline based in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, launched in 2020, operating Boeing 767 freighters from its hub at Tashkent International Airport.
Myasishchev M-4
The Myasishchev M-4 (Molot, NATO name Bison) is a Soviet four-jet strategic bomber that first flew in 1953 and spent most of its life as an aerial tanker.
Myasishchev M-50
The Myasishchev M-50 (Мясищев М-50), NATO name Bounder, was a Soviet four-engine supersonic strategic bomber prototype that first flew in 1959 but never exceeded Mach 0.99 and never entered service.
N661US
N661US is a Boeing 747-451 that was the first 747-400 built, flew for Northwest Airlines and Delta, and is preserved at the Delta Flight Museum in Atlanta.
NACA airfoil
A NACA airfoil is a wing-section shape from numbered families developed by the U.S. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in the 1920s–1940s, with numerical designations encoding camber and thickness.
Nacelle
A nacelle is the enclosed housing, or pod, that surrounds an aircraft engine and connects it to the airframe, incorporating cowling and an insulating firewall.
Nadar
Nadar was the pseudonym of Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, a French photographer and balloonist credited with the first aerial photograph in 1858, who also photographed the Paris Catacombs by electric light.
Nadi International Airport
Nadi Airport is the main international airport of Fiji, on the west coast of Viti Levu, handling 97 percent of the country's international passengers and serving as Fiji Airways' hub.
Nadia Marcinko
Nadia Marcinko, born Naďa Marcinková in 1986, is a Slovak-born commercial pilot, flight instructor, and aviation entrepreneur who founded Aviloop and was known online as "Gulfstream Girl."
Naha Airport (那覇空港)
Naha Airport (那覇空港), Okinawa's main gateway, began as a 1933 Imperial Japanese Navy airfield, reverted to Japan in 1972, and now has two runways (3,000 m and 2,700 m), about 20.6 million annual passengers, and joint JASDF civil-military use.
Najeeb Halaby
Najeeb Halaby was an American naval aviator who made the first transcontinental jet flight in 1945 and led the Federal Aviation Agency and Pan Am.
Nakajima B5N
The Nakajima B5N, codenamed Kate, was a three-seat carrier torpedo bomber of the Imperial Japanese Navy and its standard type from Pearl Harbor in 1941 to 1944.
Nakajima Ki-49
The Nakajima Ki-49 Donryu, called Helen by the Allies, was a twin-engine bomber of the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force that first flew in 1939 and proved underpowered.
Nakajima Ki-84 (キ84 疾風)
The Nakajima Ki-84 Hayate, codenamed Frank by the Allies, was the Imperial Japanese Army's best World War II fighter, entering combat over China in 1944.
NAL Saras
The NAL Saras (SARAS) is a twin-engine turboprop light transport aircraft developed by CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories in Bengaluru as India's first indigenous civil passenger aircraft, first flown in 2004.
Namibia Airports Company
The Namibia Airports Company (NAC) is a 100% state-owned enterprise, incorporated under the Airports Company Act 25 of 1998, that develops and operates eight commercial airports across Namibia.
Nanchang Q-5 (强-5)
Nanchang Q-5 (强-5, A-5, NATO "Fantan"): Chinese single-seat twin-engine supersonic attack aircraft derived from the J-6/MiG-19, built 1968–2012 by Hongdu, about 1,000 made; nuclear toss trials, Pakistani A-5C exports, Q-5M Italian avionics upgrade cancelled 1989.