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The Astronaut Wives Club
The Astronaut Wives Club is a ten-episode American period drama that aired on ABC in 2015, dramatizing the wives of NASA's Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo astronauts.
The Aviation Herald
The Aviation Herald, also known as Avherald, is an English-language website publishing reports of aviation accidents, incidents, and safety news, launched in 2008 by Austrian Simon Hradecky.
The Big Bopper
The Big Bopper was the stage name of Jiles Perry Richardson Jr., an American disc jockey and singer best known for the 1958 hit "Chantilly Lace."
The Captain (中国机长) (2019 film)
The Captain (中国机长) is a 2019 Chinese disaster drama directed by Andrew Lau, starring Zhang Hanyu and based on a real 2018 flight whose windshield shattered at 32,000 feet.
The Dam Busters (film)
The Dam Busters is a 1955 British war drama directed by Michael Anderson, starring Michael Redgrave and Richard Todd, about the RAF's 1943 Ruhr dams raid.
The Dawn Patrol (1938 film)
The Dawn Patrol (1938) is Edmund Goulding's Warner Bros. World War I aviation drama starring Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, and David Niven, a remake of Howard Hawks' 1930 film that reuses its aerial footage and script.
The Day the Music Died
The Day the Music Died, or the death of Buddy Holly, is the February 3, 1959 plane crash in Iowa that killed musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper.
The Emirates Group
The Emirates Group is a Dubai-based aviation and travel conglomerate owned by the Government of Dubai, bringing together Emirates airline, dnata, and dozens of travel brands.
The Flight Attendant
The Flight Attendant is a 2020 American dark comedy thriller series on HBO Max, adapted by Steve Yockey from Chris Bohjalian's novel and starring Kaley Cuoco.
The Flight of the Phoenix (1965 film)
The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) is a Robert Aldrich survival drama starring James Stewart, adapted from Elleston Trevor's novel, about crash survivors in the Sahara who rebuild their plane; stunt pilot Paul Mantz died filming it.
The Flying Keys
The Flying Keys were Al and Fred Key, Mississippi brothers who set a 1935 world flight endurance record of 653 hours aloft in the Curtiss Robin Ole Miss.
The Gremlins
The Gremlins is a 1943 children's book by Roald Dahl, his first published book, produced with Walt Disney and drawn from RAF folklore about mischievous creatures that sabotaged aircraft.
The Last Master Outlaw
The Last Master Outlaw is a label for D.B. Cooper, who hijacked a Northwest Orient flight in 1971, parachuted with $200,000, and was never found.
The Mountain Between Us (film)
The Mountain Between Us is a 2017 survival romance drama directed by Hany Abu-Assad, adapted from Charles Martin's novel, starring Kate Winslet and Idris Elba as plane-crash survivors; released October 6, 2017 by 20th Century Fox, grossing $30.3M US.
The Right Stuff (book)
Published in 1979, The Right Stuff is a narrative nonfiction work by Tom Wolfe that chronicles postwar test pilots at Edwards Air Force Base and Project Mercury.
The Sound Barrier
The sound barrier is the sharp drag and control rise near Mach 1; term coined by W.F. Hilton in 1935. Yeager broke it in the Bell X-1 in 1947; also covers the 1952 David Lean film and the 1973 US civil supersonic ban.
The Spirit of Butts' Farm
The Spirit of Butts' Farm (TAM-5) was a model airplane that in 2003 made the first model aircraft crossing of the Atlantic, flying from Newfoundland to Ireland.
The U.S. Air Force (song)
"The U.S. Air Force" is the official song of the United States Air Force, written by Robert Crawford in 1939 and known for "Off we go into the wild blue yonder."
Theme Building
The Theme Building, also known as the LAX Theme Building, is a Googie-style landmark at the center of Los Angeles International Airport, completed in 1961 as the symbol of its Jet Age expansion.
Theodore Freeman
Theodore Cordy "Ted" Freeman was an American Air Force captain, test pilot, and NASA astronaut selected in 1963; he died in a 1964 T-38 crash without flying in space.
Thessaloniki Airport
Thessaloniki Airport, officially Thessaloniki Airport "Makedonia", is the international airport serving Thessaloniki and the Macedonia region of northern Greece, with about 8 million passengers in 2025.
Thomas Cook Airlines
Thomas Cook Airlines was a British leisure airline based at Manchester Airport that ceased trading in September 2019 with the collapse of Thomas Cook Group.
Thomas Cook Group
Thomas Cook Group was a UK travel group formed in 2007 by the merger of Thomas Cook AG and MyTravel, which collapsed into liquidation in September 2019.
Thomas E. Romesser
Thomas E. Romesser is an American plasma physicist known for plasma isotope separation and high-energy laser defense systems, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003.
Thomas J. Hudner Jr.
Thomas Jerome Hudner Jr. was a United States Navy officer and naval aviator who received the Medal of Honor for trying to rescue his wingman in Korea in 1950.
Thomas Ward Prete
Thomas Ward Prete is an American aero-propulsion engineer who spent his career at Pratt & Whitney and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023.
Thompson and Bendix trophies
The Thompson and Bendix trophies were two American air-race prizes of the interwar era: the Thompson for closed-course pylon racing, the Bendix for fastest transcontinental crossing.
Threat and error management
Threat and error management (TEM) is an aviation safety framework, developed at the University of Texas from LOSA research in the 1990s, in which flight crews manage threats and errors before they become accidents.
Three-axis microlight
A three-axis microlight is a very light airplane controlled by hinged surfaces on three axes: ailerons for roll, elevator for pitch, and rudder for yaw, unlike weight-shift trikes.
Thrust reversal
Thrust reversal, also called reverse thrust, is the temporary redirection of an aircraft engine's exhaust or fan airflow to slow the plane, first applied commercially in 1954 on the Boeing 367-80.