4,360 articles
Aviation medicine
Aviation medicine, also known as aerospace medicine, is the medical specialty combining preventive, occupational, environmental, and clinical medicine with flight physiology, covering crew, passengers, and pilot medical certification.
Aviation prizes and challenges
Aviation prizes and challenges are cash awards offered for a first flight feat, race win, or new flight technology, from the Orteig Prize to the Ansari X Prize.
Aviation propaganda poster
An aviation propaganda poster is a printed graphic from the World Wars that uses aircraft and aircrew imagery to recruit personnel, sustain civilian morale, and sell war bonds.
Aviation regiments of the Soviet and Russian Air Forces
An aviation regiment was a flying unit of the Soviet and later Russian Air Forces, above the squadron and below the air division, typically fielding about 36 aircraft.
Aviation safety
Aviation safety, also known as airline or aircraft safety, covers the practices, regulations, and management systems used to reduce risks across air travel; commercial flying is among the safest forms of transport.
Aviation safety management system
An aviation safety management system (SMS) is a formal, top-down approach to managing safety risk, built on the ICAO Annex 19 framework of four components.
Aviation Safety Reporting System
The Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) is a voluntary, confidential program, administered by NASA and funded by the FAA, where aviation personnel report safety incidents since 1976.
Aviation transponder interrogation modes
Aviation transponder interrogation modes are the standard formats of 1030 MHz signals sent to aircraft transponders, which reply on 1090 MHz with identity, altitude, or selective data.
Avid Flyer
The Avid Flyer is a two-seat, strut-braced high-wing experimental amateur-built kit aircraft with folding wings, designed by Dean Wilson in Idaho and first flown in 1983.
Avinor
Avinor AS, the Norwegian state-owned company created in 2003 from Luftfartsverket, owns and operates roughly 45 civilian airports and provides air navigation services for civilian and military aviation from its Oslo head office.
Avio Aero
Avio Aero is an Italian aerospace company founded in Turin in 1908, a subsidiary of GE Aerospace since 2013, making engine components and turboprops for civil and military aviation.
Avionics
Avionics is the collective term for the electronic systems used on aircraft, including flight controls, cockpit displays, communications, navigation, and surveillance, plus the computers and data networks that tie them together.
Avro
Avro (A. V. Roe and Company) was a British aircraft manufacturer founded by the Roe brothers in Manchester in 1910, best known for the Lancaster and Vulcan bombers.
Avro 504
The Avro 504 is a British two-seat biplane designed by A.V. Roe in 1913, briefly a reconnaissance bomber before becoming the standard trainer of the Royal Flying Corps.
Avro Anson
The Avro Anson was a British twin-engine multi-role aircraft that entered RAF service in 1936 and became the standard Commonwealth multi-engine aircrew trainer of the Second World War.
Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck
The Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck was a twin-engine, two-seat all-weather interceptor built by Avro Canada, serving in NORAD and NATO air defense from 1953 until 1981.
Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow
The Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow, known as the Avro Arrow, was a delta-winged supersonic interceptor built by A.V. Roe Canada at Malton, Ontario, canceled in 1959.
Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar
The Avro Canada VZ-9 Avrocar, also called the VZ-9AV, was a disc-shaped experimental VTOL aircraft built by Avro Canada in the late 1950s for the US military.
Avro Lancaster
The Avro Lancaster, also called the Lancaster Bomber, was a British four-engined heavy bomber of the Second World War, famous for the 1943 Dambusters raid and carrying the heaviest bomb loads of the war.
Avro Lincoln
The Avro Lincoln was a British four-engined heavy bomber developed from the Avro Lancaster, first flown in June 1944 and the last piston-engined bomber in RAF service.
Avro Shackleton
The Avro Shackleton was a British long-range maritime patrol aircraft built by A.V. Roe, operated by the RAF and South African Air Force from 1951 until 1991.
Avro Vulcan
The Avro Vulcan, also called the Vulcan bomber, was a British delta-wing jet bomber carrying Britain's nuclear deterrent from the mid-1950s until 1969 and flying the 1982 Falklands Black Buck raids.
Avro Vulcan XH558
Avro Vulcan XH558 (G-VLCN) is a British Vulcan B.2 bomber, the first delivered to the RAF and the last Vulcan in RAF service, restored to flight in 2007.
AW249 NEES
The AW249 NEES, nicknamed Fenice, is a twin-engined, twin-seat attack helicopter developed by Leonardo for the Italian Army, which will use it to replace the AH-129D Mangusta from 2027.
Axial compressor
An axial compressor is a compressor in which air flows parallel to the axis of rotation through alternating rotor and stator blades, used in jet engines.
Azerbaijan Airlines
Azerbaijan Airlines, also known as AZAL or Azərbaycan Hava Yolları, is the flag carrier of Azerbaijan, founded in 1992 and flying from Heydar Aliyev International Airport in Baku.
Azul Brazilian Airlines
Azul (Azul Linhas Aéreas Brasileiras) is a Brazilian low-cost airline founded in 2008 by JetBlue founder David Neeleman, serving more Brazilian cities than any other carrier.
B-HNL
B-HNL is the registration of the first Boeing 777 ever built, which tested the type from 1994, flew for Cathay Pacific for 18 years, and retired to a museum in 2018.
Baa Baa Black Sheep (TV series)
Baa Baa Black Sheep, later Black Sheep Squadron, is an NBC action series (1976–1978) starring Robert Conrad as World War II Marine ace Gregory "Pappy" Boyington.
Baba Yaga (aircraft)
Baba Yaga (Баба Яга) is the nickname Russian soldiers gave Ukraine's heavy multicopter bomber drones, best known the SkyFall Vampire, used to bomb Russian positions at night.