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Allison V-1710
The Allison V-1710 was a liquid-cooled, 12-cylinder V-type piston aircraft engine built by General Motors in Indianapolis, powering over 60 percent of U.S. Army pursuit aircraft during World War II.
Almaty International Airport (Алматы халықаралық әуежайы)
Almaty International Airport (Алматы халықаралық әуежайы) is the largest and busiest airport of Kazakhstan, located 15 km northeast of central Almaty and operating since 1935.
Aloha Airlines
Aloha Airlines was a Hawaii-based airline founded in Honolulu in 1946 as Trans-Pacific Airlines; it flew interisland and transpacific routes for over 60 years before ending passenger service on March 31, 2008, during its second bankruptcy.
Aloha Airlines Flight 243
Aloha Airlines Flight 243 was a 1988 Hawaii flight in which an 18-foot section of a Boeing 737's fuselage tore away; 94 of 95 aboard survived.
Alpha Eta Rho
Alpha Eta Rho is an international co-ed professional collegiate aviation fraternity, founded in 1929 at the University of Southern California and the oldest such organization in the United States.
Altimeter
An altimeter is an instrument that measures altitude. In aircraft, barometric altimeters infer height above sea level from pressure, while radio altimeters measure terrain clearance directly.
Altimeter setting
An altimeter setting is the barometric pressure a pilot sets on an altimeter so it reads height relative to sea level, an airfield, or a standard datum.
Altitude sickness
Altitude sickness (altitude illness): AMS, HACE, and HAPE caused by hypobaric hypoxia above about 2,450 m. Prevented by gradual ascent and acetazolamide; treated by descent.
Alvin M. Johnston
Alvin M. "Tex" Johnston was an American test pilot who flew the first flights of the Boeing B-52 prototype and barrel-rolled the 707's Dash 80 prototype in 1955.
Amazon Air
Amazon Air is the cargo airline of Amazon, launched in 2016 to move packages between fulfillment centers; it operates 100+ contracted aircraft with its main hub in Cincinnati.
Amazon Prime Air
Amazon Prime Air is Amazon's drone delivery service, delivering packages up to 5 pounds in as fast as 30 minutes, operating from 11 US sites since 2020.
Ambient 1: Music for Airports
Ambient 1: Music for Airports is a 1978 studio album by Brian Eno, the first in his Ambient series and the first album issued under the term ambient music.
Amelia (airline)
Amelia, the commercial brand of the French airline group Regourd Aviation, was introduced in 2019 and specializes in ACMI leasing, charter flights, scheduled regional routes, and medical evacuation.
Amelia (film)
Amelia is a 2009 biographical drama film directed by Mira Nair, starring Hilary Swank as Amelia Earhart, tracing her fame to her 1937 disappearance over the Pacific Ocean.
Amelia (opera)
Amelia is a two-act opera by American composer Daron Hagen, premiered by Seattle Opera in 2010 about a woman haunted by her father's loss in Vietnam.
Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart was an American aviator, the first woman to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic in 1932, who disappeared over the Pacific during her 1937 around-the-world flight attempt.
Amelia Rose Earhart
Amelia Rose Earhart is an American pilot and former Denver TV news anchor who in 2014 flew around the world in a single-engine Pilatus PC-12, following Amelia Earhart's 1937 route.
America West Airlines
America West Airlines was a Phoenix, Arizona-based low-cost airline founded after deregulation in 1983 that grew into one of the largest United States carriers before merging with US Airways in 2005.
America-class amphibious assault ship
The America class is a class of big-deck amphibious assault ships built for the United States Navy to carry Marines, F-35B fighters, and MV-22 Ospreys.
American Air Mail Society
The American Air Mail Society (AAMS) is a volunteer-run nonprofit for collectors of airmail stamps and postal history, founded in 1923 and publisher of The Airpost Journal.
American airborne landings in Normandy
The American airborne landings in Normandy were the parachute and glider insertions of the U.S. 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions on the night of 5–6 June 1944.
American Airlines
American Airlines, formerly American Airways, is a major US airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, with roots in 1926 and more than 365 destinations in 61 countries.
American Airlines fleet
The American Airlines fleet is the set of aircraft flown by American Airlines, which operated 1,013 Airbus and Boeing mainline aircraft at the end of 2025.
American Airlines Flight 1 (1962)
American Airlines Flight 1 was a Boeing 707 flight from New York to Los Angeles that crashed into Jamaica Bay on March 1, 1962, killing all 95 aboard.
American Airlines Flight 1420
American Airlines Flight 1420 was a flight from Dallas/Fort Worth to Little Rock that crashed while landing in a thunderstorm on June 1, 1999, killing 11 of 145 aboard.
American Airlines Flight 191
American Airlines Flight 191 was a DC-10 that crashed on takeoff at Chicago O'Hare on May 25, 1979, killing all 271 aboard and 2 on the ground.
American Airlines Flight 383 (2016)
American Airlines Flight 383 was a 2016 Chicago O'Hare to Miami flight whose Boeing 767 suffered an uncontained engine failure and fire during takeoff; all 170 aboard evacuated.
American Airlines Flight 77
American Airlines Flight 77, a Dulles to Los Angeles passenger flight, was hijacked by five al-Qaeda hijackers on September 11, 2001, and crashed into the Pentagon, killing 189 people.
American Airlines Flight 96
American Airlines Flight 96, known as the Windsor incident, was a DC-10 flight from Detroit whose aft cargo door tore away near Windsor, Ontario, in 1972; everyone aboard survived.
American Airlines Flight 965
American Airlines Flight 965 was a Miami-to-Cali Boeing 757 that crashed near Buga, Colombia, in December 1995, killing 159 of 163 aboard after a navigation error.