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BAC Jet Provost
The BAC Jet Provost, also known as the Hunting Jet Provost, was a British jet trainer serving as the Royal Air Force's standard basic trainer from 1955 to 1993.
BAC One-Eleven
The BAC One-Eleven, usually written BAC 1-11, was a British short-range twin-jet airliner built by the British Aircraft Corporation, seating up to 119 passengers from 1965.
BAC TSR-2
The BAC TSR-2 was a canceled British tactical strike and reconnaissance aircraft developed for the Royal Air Force; one prototype flew before cancellation in April 1965.
Badges of the United States Air Force
Badges of the United States Air Force are uniform insignia authorized by the Department of the Air Force that signify aeronautical ratings, special skills, career field qualifications, and duty assignments.
Badges of the United States Navy
Badges of the United States Navy are breast insignia prescribed in uniform regulations that mark qualification as a naval aviator, flight officer, aircrewman, or warfare specialist.
BAE Systems Hawk
The BAE Systems Hawk, also known as the BAe Hawk, is a British jet trainer that entered Royal Air Force service in 1976 and has flown the Red Arrows since 1979.
BAE Systems Tempest
BAE Systems Tempest is the UK name for the crewed stealth fighter developed with Italy and Japan under GCAP, planned to enter Royal Air Force service from 2035.
Bagdogra Airport
Bagdogra Airport, also known as Siliguri International Airport, is an international airport in West Bengal, India, serving as the air gateway to Darjeeling and Sikkim.
Baggage Claim (film)
Baggage Claim is a 2013 American romantic comedy written and directed by David E. Talbert, based on his novel, starring Paula Patton as a flight attendant with 30 days to get engaged.
Baghdad International Airport (مطار بغداد الدولي)
Baghdad International Airport (مطار بغداد الدولي), formerly Saddam International Airport, is Iraq's largest international airport, opened in 1982 about 20 km west of central Baghdad.
Bagram Airfield
Bagram Airfield, also known as Bagram Air Base, is a military airfield in Parwan province, Afghanistan, about 25 miles north of Kabul, built by the Soviet Union in the 1950s.
Bahia Bakari
Bahia Bakari, known as "the miracle girl" (la miraculée), is the sole survivor of Yemenia Flight 626, which crashed near Moroni, Comoros, in 2009, killing 152 people.
Bahrain International Airport
Bahrain International Airport, also known as Bahrain Airport or Manama Airport, is Bahrain's international airport and a regional hub, established in 1927 as the first airport in the Arabian Gulf.
Balloon (aeronautics)
A balloon is a lighter-than-air, engineless aircraft that flies by gas buoyancy or an airborne heater, first flown in France in 1783 and still used for recreation, weather, and research.
Balloon and lighter-than-air pilot certification
Balloon and lighter-than-air pilot certification is the set of licenses authorizing pilots of free balloons and airships, including the US lighter-than-air rating and the European Balloon Pilot Licence.
Balloon mail
Balloon mail, also called balloon post, is the transport of postal items by free balloon. During the siege of Paris in 1870–1871 it carried mail out of the encircled city.
Baltimore/Washington International Airport
Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, known as BWI, is a commercial airport in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, serving Baltimore and Washington, D.C., and a major Southwest Airlines hub.
Bamboo Airways
Bamboo Airways is a Vietnamese "hybrid" airline combining low-cost and full-service features, founded by FLC Group and launched in January 2019 before restructuring shrank its 30-aircraft fleet.
Bandaranaike International Airport
Bandaranaike International Airport, also known as Katunayake Airport, is Sri Lanka's principal international airport at Katunayake, about 18 miles north of Colombo, opened in 1968 and handling 9.96 million passengers in 2025.
Bangkok Airways
Bangkok Airways (บริษัท บางกอกแอร์เวย์ จำกัด) is a Thai regional airline headquartered in Bangkok, operating from Suvarnabhumi Airport since 1986 and owning Samui, Sukhothai, and Trat airports.
Barksdale Air Force Base
Barksdale Air Force Base is a US Air Force base in Bossier City, Louisiana, headquarters of Air Force Global Strike Command and home to B-52 bombers.
Barnstorming
Barnstorming was itinerant aviation entertainment in which pilots, many World War I veterans, flew from town to town in the United States staging air shows and selling rides.
Barrage balloon
A barrage balloon is a small captive balloon raised on cables over cities, ports, and ships to hinder low-flying aircraft, used most extensively in World War II.
Barrel roll
A barrel roll is an aerobatic maneuver in which an aircraft completes one full roll while simultaneously flying a loop, tracing a horizontal corkscrew path around an imaginary cylinder.
Bartini Beriev VVA-14
The Bartini Beriev VVA-14 (ВВА-14) was a Soviet experimental vertical take-off amphibious anti-submarine aircraft designed by Robert Bartini and built at Beriev in Taganrog, first flying in 1972.
Basic fighter maneuvers
Basic fighter maneuvers (BFM) are the individual offensive, defensive, and neutral maneuvers a fighter pilot uses in visual-range air combat to gain positional advantage over an opponent.
Basler BT-67
The Basler BT-67, made by Basler Turbo Conversions of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, is a turboprop transport built by remanufacturing Douglas DC-3 and C-47 airframes with new engines.
Bassam Abu Sharif (بسام أبو شريف)
Bassam Abu Sharif (بسام أبو شريف), born 1946 in Jerusalem, is a Palestinian journalist and former PFLP spokesman who became a senior adviser and spokesman to PLO chairman Yasser Arafat.
Batik Air
Batik Air is an Indonesian full-service airline launched by the Lion Air Group at Jakarta in 2013, whose name also covers Batik Air Malaysia, the former Malindo Air.
Battle of Britain (film)
Battle of Britain is a 1969 British war film directed by Guy Hamilton, produced by Harry Saltzman, starring Laurence Olivier as Dowding, recreating the 1940 RAF-Luftwaffe battle with over 100 vintage aircraft.