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Wings Air
Wings Air (PT Wings Abadi Airlines) is an Indonesian regional airline based in Jakarta. A wholly owned Lion Air subsidiary founded in 2003, it flies ATR 72 turboprops.
Wings of Fire (autobiography)
Wings of Fire is the 1999 autobiography of A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, the Indian aerospace scientist who led the country's space and missile programs and served as its 11th President, written with Arun Tiwari.
Wingsuit flying
Wingsuit flying, also called wingsuiting or wingsuit gliding, is an air sport in which a skydiver glides in a fabric-winged jumpsuit before opening a parachute, from aircraft or fixed objects.
Wingtip device
A wingtip device is a structure fitted to an aircraft wing's end, such as a winglet or raked tip, that reduces induced drag by weakening wingtip vortices.
Wizz Air
Wizz Air is a Hungarian ultra-low-cost airline headquartered in Budapest, founded in 2003 by József Váradi and focused on flights across Central and Eastern Europe.
Women Airforce Service Pilots
The Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) was a civilian organization of women who flew noncombat military missions, ferrying and testing aircraft, for the US Army Air Forces from 1942 to 1944.
Women in aviation
Women in aviation have worked as pilots, engineers, mechanics, and astronauts since powered flight began, starting within five years of the Wright brothers' 1903 flight.
Women in aviation in the Soviet Union
Women in aviation in the Soviet Union set 1930s record flights and flew combat missions in World War II, forming three all-women regiments, including the Night Witches.
Women in aviation in the United States
Women in aviation in the United States is the history of American women as pilots, military aviators, and flight attendants, from the first licensed women of 1910–1911 onward.
Women in Aviation International
Women in Aviation International is a nonprofit organization, founded by Peggy Chabrian in 1994, that works to increase the number of women in aviation and aerospace careers.
Woodward (company)
Woodward is an American designer and manufacturer of energy control systems for aerospace and industrial markets, headquartered in Fort Collins, Colorado and founded in 1870 by Amos Woodward.
World Air Games
The World Air Games is an Olympic-style international air sports competition organized by the FAI, with editions held in Turkey (1997), Spain (2001), Italy (2009), and Dubai (2015).
World's longest domestic flight
The world's longest domestic flight is flown within France: record nonstop Tahiti–Paris flights in 2020 reached over 16,129 km, while the longest scheduled domestic route links Paris with Réunion.
Worldport (Pan Am)
Worldport, officially the Pan Am Terminal and later Terminal 3, was Pan Am's JFK Airport terminal, opened in 1960 and demolished after Delta's use ended in 2013.
WorldTracer
WorldTracer is a global baggage tracing and matching system operated by SITA, launched with IATA in the early 1990s and used by most airlines to reunite mishandled luggage.
Wreckage reconstruction
Wreckage reconstruction is the aircraft accident investigation practice of recovering and reassembling destroyed aircraft pieces so fracture patterns and debris distribution can be read as a sequence of events.
Wright brothers
Wilbur and Orville Wright, bicycle makers from Dayton, Ohio, made the first powered, controlled airplane flights at Kitty Hawk in 1903 and developed the first practical airplane.
Wright Brothers Day
Wright Brothers Day is a United States national observance held every December 17, marking the Wright brothers' first successful powered airplane flights near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903.
Wright Brothers Medal
The Wright Brothers Medal is an annual SAE International award honoring the author of the best technical paper on aircraft or spacecraft, first presented in 1928.
Wright Brothers National Memorial
The Wright Brothers National Memorial is a National Park Service site in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, preserving where the Wrights made the first powered flight in 1903.
Wright brothers' first flight
The Wright brothers' first flight was the first controlled, powered airplane flight, flown by Orville Wright for 12 seconds over 120 feet near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Wright Flyer
The Wright Flyer, also called Flyer I, was the first heavier-than-air powered aircraft to make a controlled flight, flown by Wilbur and Orville Wright at Kitty Hawk in 1903.
Wright Flyer III
Wright Flyer III, also known as Flyer III, was the Wright brothers' third powered airplane, flown at Huffman Prairie, Ohio, in 1905 and the first practical airplane.
Wright R-1820 Cyclone
The Wright R-1820 Cyclone, also marketed as the Cyclone 9, is a nine-cylinder, single-row, air-cooled radial piston engine built by Wright Aeronautical from 1930 until 1964.
Wright R-3350 Duplex-Cyclone
The Wright R-3350 Duplex-Cyclone was an American 18-cylinder radial aircraft engine built by Wright Aeronautical from 1940 to 1960, best known for powering the Boeing B-29 Superfortress.
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is a United States Air Force installation near Dayton, Ohio, serving as the Air Force's principal center for research and development and logistics.
Wrocław Airport
Wrocław Airport (Port Lotniczy Wrocław), also called Copernicus Airport Wrocław, is an international airport serving Wrocław in southwestern Poland; in 2025 it handled a record 4.9 million passengers.
Xi'an KJ-3000 (空警-3000)
The Xi'an KJ-3000 (空警-3000) is a Chinese airborne early warning and control aircraft built on the Y-20B transport, first flown in 2024 to replace the KJ-2000.
Xi'an Xianyang International Airport
Xi'an Xianyang International Airport (西安咸阳国际机场) is the main airport serving Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi province in northwest China, about 47 km from the city center. Its Terminal 5, opened in 2025, houses a museum.
Xi'an Y-20 (鲲鹏)
The Xi'an Y-20 (Kunpeng, 鲲鹏) is China's first domestically developed large military transport aircraft, a four-engine strategic airlifter built by Xi'an Aircraft Corporation that entered service in 2016.