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Voodoo (aircraft)
Voodoo is a highly modified P-51D Mustang air racer that won three Reno Unlimited Gold titles and set a 531.53 mph piston-engine speed record in 2017.
Vought
Vought, also known as Chance Vought, is an American aircraft manufacturer founded in 1917, best known for naval fighters such as the F4U Corsair and F-8 Crusader.
Vought F-8 Crusader
The Vought F-8 Crusader (F8U) was a supersonic US Navy carrier fighter first flown in 1955, known as "the Last of the Gunfighters" for its 20 mm cannon armament.
Vought F-8E(FN) Crusader
The Vought F-8E(FN) Crusader was a French Navy variant of the American F-8 Crusader, built in 42 examples and flown from the carriers Foch and Clémenceau until 1999.
Vought F4U Corsair
The Vought F4U Corsair was an American carrier-based fighter of World War II and the Korean War, built by Chance Vought and recognizable by its inverted gull wing.
Vought F7U Cutlass
The Vought F7U Cutlass was a tailless, twin-engine jet fighter built by Chance Vought for the United States Navy, the first tailless production American fighter.
Vought V-173
The Vought V-173, nicknamed the "Flying Pancake," was an American experimental aircraft designed by Charles Zimmerman that flew 199 times between 1942 and 1947, proving low-speed disk-wing flight and leading to the Vought XF5U-1.
Vought XF5U
The Vought XF5U, nicknamed the Flying Flapjack, was an American experimental twin-engine carrier fighter built by Chance Vought at Stratford, Connecticut; excessive vibration led the Navy to cancel it in 1947.
VP-26
VP-26, known as the Tridents, is a United States Navy maritime patrol and reconnaissance squadron at NAS Jacksonville, Florida, flying the P-8A Poseidon since 2016.
VP-8
VP-8, Patrol Squadron Eight, is a US Navy maritime patrol squadron known as the Fighting Tigers that flies the P-8A Poseidon from NAS Jacksonville, Florida.
VTOL X-Plane
The VTOL X-Plane, formally the Vertical Takeoff and Landing Experimental Plane program, was a DARPA program launched in 2013 to combine helicopter-like vertical takeoff with fast, efficient fixed-wing cruise.
Vueling
Vueling, also known as Vueling Airlines, is a Spanish low-cost airline founded in 2004 and headquartered in Viladecans near Barcelona, part of IAG since 2013.
Waco CG-4
The Waco CG-4, called Hadrian in British service, was the US Army Air Forces' standard World War II assault glider, carrying 13 troops or a jeep.
Wakefield Cup
The Wakefield Cup is a perpetual international trophy for rubber-powered free-flight model aircraft, first awarded in 1928 and now the F1B trophy at FAI world championships.
Waller Air Force Base
Waller Air Force Base, also known as Waller Field, was a US air base in northeastern Trinidad, a major World War II refueling stop on the South Atlantic ferry route.
Wally Funk
Wally Funk (Mary Wallace Funk) was an American aviator who passed the 1961 Mercury 13 tests and flew to space in 2021 at age 82.
Warbird
A warbird is a former military aircraft, whether an original survivor, restored airframe, or reproduction, operated by civilians, museums, or government agencies for historical preservation and living history.
Warbird and heritage flying organizations
Warbird and heritage flying organizations are membership groups, type clubs, and foundations that keep former military and vintage aircraft restored, airworthy, and on public display.
Warbird ownership and operations
Warbird ownership is the private, civilian possession and operation of former military aircraft, from $125,000 T-6 trainers to P-51 Mustangs costing over $1.5 million, flown for airshows and exhibition.
Warsaw Chopin Airport
Warsaw Chopin Airport (Lotnisko Chopina w Warszawie, WAW/EPWA), formerly Warsaw-Okęcie, is Poland's largest airport, opened 1934, handling 24.1 million passengers in 2025 with two intersecting runways, night noise limits, and a planned transfer to the CPK airport.
Washington, D.C., Special Flight Rules Area
The Washington, D.C., Special Flight Rules Area is restricted airspace within 30 nautical miles of the capital, created in 2008, requiring flight plans and transponder codes.
Water landing
A water landing, or ditching, is a controlled emergency landing of an aircraft on water, distinct from an inadvertent water impact such as a runway overrun.
Waverider (hypersonic aircraft)
A waverider is a hypersonic aircraft shape designed to ride on its own attached shock wave, first formulated by Terrence Nonweiler in 1959 and flown by the X-51A.
We Are Marshall
We Are Marshall is a 2006 American sports drama directed by McG, starring Matthew McConaughey, Matthew Fox, David Strathairn, and Ian McShane, about the 1970 plane crash that killed the Marshall University football team.
Weapon systems officer
A weapon systems officer (WSO, pronounced "wizzo") is a military aircrew officer who operates weapons, sensors, and navigation from the rear cockpit of two-crew combat aircraft.
Weight and balance
Weight and balance is the aviation discipline of confirming an aircraft's total loaded weight and center of gravity stay within certified limits, a required check before every flight.
Weight and balance errors in aviation
Weight and balance errors in aviation are accident causes where an aircraft flies overweight, outside its center-of-gravity limits, or with a load that shifts in flight.
Welko E. Gasich
Welko Elton Gasich (1922–2022) was an American aeronautical engineer at Northrop Corporation who helped develop the T-38 Talon and F-5 fighter and oversaw B-2 production before retiring in 1988.
WeRoad
WeRoad is a Milan-based group travel startup, founded in 2017, that organizes small-group adventure trips for travelers in their twenties and thirties, using peer group leaders instead of tour guides.
West Air Sweden Flight 294
West Air Sweden Flight 294 was a cargo flight that crashed in northern Sweden on 8 January 2016, killing both pilots, after faulty instrument data.