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Gloster Gladiator
The Gloster Gladiator, a British biplane fighter built by the Gloster Aircraft Company, entered RAF service in 1937 as the last biplane and first enclosed-cockpit RAF fighter.
Gloster Javelin
The Gloster Javelin was a twin-engined, T-tailed delta-wing interceptor serving Britain's Royal Air Force from 1956 to 1968, the last design to bear the Gloster name.
Gloster Meteor
The Gloster Meteor was a twin-engine jet fighter built by Gloster for the RAF, first flying in 1943 and the only Allied jet to see combat in the Second World War.
GMF AeroAsia
GMF AeroAsia is an Indonesian aircraft maintenance, repair, and overhaul company based at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport near Jakarta and a subsidiary of the Garuda Indonesia Group.
GMR Airports
GMR Airports Limited is an Indian airport holding company that operates Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport and Hyderabad's Rajiv Gandhi International Airport under long-term concessions, plus airports in the Philippines, Indonesia, and Greece.
Go First
Go First, which flew as GoAir from 2005, was a Wadia Group Indian budget airline that filed for insolvency in 2023 after Pratt & Whitney engine groundings.
Go-around
A go-around, also called a missed approach or wave-off, is an aviation maneuver in which a pilot abandons a landing attempt and climbs away for another approach.
GOL Airlines
GOL Airlines (GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes) is a Brazilian low-cost airline founded in 2000 that pioneered the low-cost model in Brazil with an all-Boeing 737 fleet.
Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907
Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907, the Amazon mid-air collision, was a Brazilian Boeing 737 flight that collided with a business jet in 2006, killing all 154 aboard.
Golden age of aviation in popular culture
The golden age of aviation in popular culture was the interwar obsession with flying, marked by Lindbergh's 1927 Paris flight, air races, aviation films, and comics.
Good Kill
Good Kill is a 2014 American war drama written and directed by Andrew Niccol, starring Ethan Hawke as a drone pilot in Las Vegas who strikes targets in Afghanistan.
Goodyear Blimp
The Goodyear Blimp is the branded fleet of airships operated by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company of Akron, Ohio, since 1925 for advertising and aerial television coverage of sporting events.
Google Flights
Google Flights is an online flight search and price-comparison service operated by Google, launched in 2011 and built on ITA Software, acquired for $700 million in 2010.
Gordon Bennett Cup (ballooning)
The Gordon Bennett Cup, or Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett, is an international gas-balloon distance race first flown from Paris in 1906, founded by James Gordon Bennett Jr.
Gotha Go 242
The Gotha Go 242 was a German military transport glider of World War II, built by Gothaer Waggonfabrik to carry 23 troops or freight such as a light howitzer.
Gran Canaria Airport
Gran Canaria Airport, also known as Gando Airport or Aeropuerto de Gran Canaria, is the main airport of Gran Canaria in Spain's Canary Islands, opened in 1930.
Grande Semaine d'Aviation de la Champagne
The Grande Semaine d'Aviation de la Champagne was the first organized international air meet, held near Reims, France, from 22 to 29 August 1909 before huge crowds.
Grantley Adams International Airport
Grantley Adams International Airport, formerly Seawell Airport, is the sole airport of Barbados, located at Seawell in Christ Church and serving as an aviation hub for the Eastern Caribbean.
Granville Gee Bee Model R Super Sportster
Granville Gee Bee Model R Super Sportster (R-1, R-2): 1932 Granville Brothers racing aircraft from Springfield, MA; Doolittle won the 1932 Thompson Trophy at 252.7 mph and set a 296.287 mph landplane record; both airframes crashed in 1933.
Graupner
Graupner is a German model-making brand founded by Johannes Graupner in Stuttgart in 1930, a leading European maker of radio-controlled aircraft, boats, and RC electronics.
Graveyard spiral
The graveyard spiral, also called the suicide spiral, is a vestibular flight illusion in which a pilot in an unnoticed descending turn pulls back, tightening the spiral.
Green Ramp disaster
The Green Ramp disaster was a 1994 aviation accident at Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina, in which a fire killed 24 paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division.
Grob G 109
The Grob G 109, called the Vigilant T.1 in Royal Air Force service, is a German two-seat touring motor glider, the world's first serially produced composite motor glider.
Grob G 120TP
The Grob G 120TP, known in Royal Air Force service as the Prefect T.1, is a German two-seat turboprop military trainer built by Grob Aircraft, with over 200 delivered by 2024.
Ground Delay Program
A ground delay program is an FAA traffic management process that holds flights at their departure airports and assigns arrival slots to meter demand at a congested destination airport.
Ground effect (aerodynamics)
Ground effect, or Wing In Ground Effect, is the increase in lift-to-drag ratio a wing gains when flying close to a surface, felt within about half a wingspan.
Ground handling and ramp accidents
Ground handling and ramp accidents are accidents during aircraft ground operations, including pushback, towing, refuelling, and loading, injuring about 243,000 people and costing roughly $4 billion annually.
Ground loop (aviation)
A ground loop is the rapid, uncontrolled rotation of a fixed-wing aircraft on the ground, most often during the after-landing roll, and is especially common in tailwheel airplanes.
Ground proximity warning system
The ground proximity warning system (GPWS) is an aircraft instrument that warns pilots of unintended flight toward terrain with spoken alerts like "whoop whoop, pull up."
Ground support equipment
Ground support equipment is the motorized and non-motorized vehicles used at airports to service aircraft during turnaround, including baggage tugs, belt loaders, fuel trucks, lavatory trucks, and pushback tractors.