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Brussels Airlines

Brussels Airlines is the national airline of Belgium and a Lufthansa Group carrier, operating from Brussels Airport to more than 90 destinations since its 2007 launch.

Brussels Airport

Brussels Airport, also known as Brussels-National or Zaventem, is Belgium's largest airport, 12 km north-east of central Brussels, handling 24.4 million passengers and 795,000 tonnes of cargo in 2025.

Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport

Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport, also known as Ferihegy, is the main international airport of Hungary, located 16 km southeast of Budapest and opened in 1950.

Buffalo Airways

Buffalo Airways is a family-owned Canadian airline based in Yellowknife, NWT, purchased by Joe McBryan in 1970. It offers charter, cargo, and firefighting services across the Canadian North.

Buffalo Niagara International Airport

Buffalo Niagara International Airport, opened in 1926 in Cheektowaga, New York, is Western New York's primary airport, serving 5 million passengers a year, many from Ontario.

Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety

The Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses, BEA) is the French agency created in 1946 that independently investigates civil aviation accidents and incidents.

Burt Rutan

Burt Rutan (Elbert Leander Rutan, born 1943) is an American aerospace engineer and aircraft designer known for Voyager and SpaceShipOne, the first private crewed spacecraft.

Bush plane

A bush plane, also known as a bush aircraft, is a small, rugged aircraft built to reach remote areas like Alaska and the Canadian tundra, with interchangeable wheels, floats, or skis.

Business class

Business class, also called executive class, is the premium airline cabin between first and economy, pioneered by Pan Am's Clipper Class in 1978 and adopted by Qantas in 1979.

Business jet

A business jet, or bizjet, is a jet-powered aircraft used in business aviation, carrying passengers or goods for companies and individuals, generally not for public hire.

By Dawn's Early Light

By Dawn's Early Light is a 1990 American made-for-TV nuclear thriller directed by Jack Sholder, starring Powers Boothe, Rebecca De Mornay, and James Earl Jones.

Bypass ratio

The bypass ratio of a turbofan engine is the mass of air bypassing the core divided by the mass through it; higher ratios mean better efficiency.

Cabin air quality

Cabin air quality is the condition of air in an aircraft cabin and flight deck, supplied mainly as engine bleed air and affected by oil fume contamination.

Cabin Pressure (radio series)

Cabin Pressure is a British radio sitcom written by John Finnemore, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 from 2008 to 2014 and starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Roger Allam.

Cabin pressurization

Cabin pressurization, also called a pressurized cabin, keeps an aircraft's interior at an air pressure equivalent to roughly 6,000 to 8,000 feet while it flies much higher.

Cabotage

Cabotage is the transport of passengers or goods between two points within one country by a carrier of another country, and the laws reserving such domestic traffic for national carriers.

CAC/PAC JF-17 Thunder

CAC/PAC JF-17 Thunder (FC-1 Xiaolong): single-engine multirole fighter jointly built by Chengdu (CAC) and Pakistan Aeronautical Complex; RD-93-powered, Mach 1.6, Block I/II/III variants, PAF service since 2007, exported to Myanmar, Nigeria, Azerbaijan, reportedly Iraq.

Cairo International Airport (مطار القاهرة الدولي)

Cairo International Airport (مطار القاهرة الدولي), also known as Cairo Airport, is Egypt's largest airport, with IATA code CAI, and Africa's busiest, with 28.9 million passengers in 2024.

Calgary International Airport

Calgary International Airport (IATA: YYC), also known as McCall Field, is Canada's third-busiest airport, about 17 kilometers northeast of downtown Calgary, Alberta, serving 19.4 million passengers in 2025.

Camp Lemonnier

Camp Lemonnier is a United States Navy expeditionary base in Djibouti City, Djibouti, leased from Djibouti since 2002 and serving as headquarters for Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa.

Canadair CL-215

The Canadair CL-215, nicknamed the Scooper, is a Canadian twin-engine amphibious flying boat, the first large aircraft designed for aerial firefighting, first flown in 1967.

Canadair CL-415

The Canadair CL-415, known as the Super Scooper, is an amphibious firefighting aircraft, in service since 1994, that scoops water while skimming across lakes or the sea.

Canadair Sabre

The Canadair Sabre, also known as the Canadair F-86, was a Canadian-built version of the F-86 jet fighter produced in Montreal from 1950 to 1958.

Canadian Airlines

Canadian Airlines International was Canada's second-largest airline, formed in 1987 from CP Air, Pacific Western, and other carriers, based in Calgary, and absorbed by Air Canada in 2000 after chronic losses.

Canadian Maritime Helicopter Program

The Canadian Maritime Helicopter Program (MHP) is a Canadian defense procurement project, awarded to Sikorsky in 2004, to replace the Sea King with 28 CH-148 Cyclone maritime helicopters.

Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum

The Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, Canada's largest flying museum, restores and flies about 45 historic military aircraft from Hamilton International Airport in Mount Hope, Ontario.

Canard (aeronautics)

A canard, or canard aircraft, is an aircraft with a lifting and pitch-control surface mounted ahead of the main wing, first used by the Wright brothers' 1903 Flyer.

Cancún International Airport

Cancún International Airport, also known as Aeropuerto Internacional de Cancún, opened in 1973 and serves Cancún and the Riviera Maya as Mexico's busiest airport for international passengers.

Cape Air

Cape Air, legally Hyannis Air Service, is an American commuter airline founded in 1989 by Dan Wolf, headquartered in Hyannis, Massachusetts, and described as the largest commuter airline in the United States.

Cape Town Convention

The Cape Town Convention is the informal name for a 2001 treaty establishing an international regime for security interests in aircraft and other mobile equipment, in force since 2006.