Index of aviation articles

Aviation is the design, development, production, operation, and use of aircraft, especially heavier-than-air aircraft. Articles related to aviation include:

A

Aviation accidents and incidents

– Above Mean Sea Level (AMSL)

– ADF

– Accessory drive

– Advance airfield

– Advanced air mobility

– Advanced technology engine

– Adverse yaw

– Aerial ramming

– Aerial reconnaissance

– Aerobatics

– Aerodrome

– Aerodrome mapping database (AMDB)

– Aerodynamics

– Aerofoil

– Aerodrome beacon

– Aeronautical Information Manual (AIM)

– Aeronautical chart

– Aeronautical Message Handling System

– Aeronautical phraseology

– Aeronautics

– Aeronaval

– Aerospace

– Aerospace engineering

– Afterburner

– Agile Combat Employment (ACE)

– Aileron

– Air charter

– Air defense identification zone (ADIZ)

– Air freight terminal

– Air traffic flow management

– Air-augmented rocket

– Airband

– Airbase (AFB)

– Airborne collision avoidance system

– Airborne lifeboat

– Air combat maneuvering (ACM)

– Aircraft canopy

– Aircraft maintenance engineer (AME)

– Aircraft maintenance technician (AMT)

– Aircraft registration

– Aircraft

– Aircraft catapult

– Aircraft engine controls

– Aircraft fairing

– Aircraft lavatory

– Aircraft marshalling

– Aircraft noise

– Aircraft ordnance

– Aircraft periscope

– Air data boom

– Airfoil

– Airline transport pilot license

– Airline

– Airliner

– Airmiss

– Air navigation

– Air observation post

– Airport/Facility Directory (A/FD)

– Airpark

– Airport

- Airports Commission

– Aviation safety

– Air route

– Airship

– Airshow

– Airspace classes

– Airspeed

– Airspeed indicator

– Air-start system

– Air traffic control

– Air traffic controllers' strike of 1981

– Air-to-ground communication

– Air turborocket

– All-Weather Airfield

– Altimeter

– Altiport

– Altitude

– Angel Flight

– Angle of attack

– Angle of incidence

– Anhedral

– Anti-collision light

– Anti-torque pedals (helicopter rudder pedals)

– Arresting gear

– Aspect ratio (wing)

– Assisted take-off

– Asymmetrical aircraft

– Astrodome

– Attitude indicator

– Autoflare

– Autoland

– Automatic Carrier Landing System (ACLS)

– Automatic dependent surveillance – broadcast

– Automatic terminal information service (ATIS)

– Autorotation (helicopter)

– Autorotation (fixed-wing aircraft)

– Autopilot

– Autothrottle

– Aviation

– Aviation archaeology

– Aviation communication

– Aviation history

– Aviation light signals

– Aviation medical examiner (AME)

– Aviation parts tag

– Aviation safety

– Aviation system

– Aviator

– Aviator call sign

– Avionics

– Auxiliary power unit

B

Balloon (aircraft)

– Ballute

– Basic fighter maneuvers (BFM)

– Bird strike

– Blast pad

– Blimp

– Blown flap

– Blow-in door

– Blue ice

– Bolter

– Boundary layer

– Brevity code

– Brodie landing system

– Bubble canopy

– Bush plane

– Bypass ratio

– Bypass turbojet

C

Canard

– Carrier-based aircraft

– Carrier onboard delivery (COD)

– Catapult hook

– Centre of gravity (CG)

– Chine

– Chord

– Chosen instrument

– Circuit (airfield)

– Circulation control wing (CCW)

– Civil Air Patrol (US Air Force Auxiliary)

– Civil Aviation Authority (CAA)

– Clear-air turbulence

– Cloaking device

– Cockpit

– Cockpit culture

– Cockpit voice recorder

– Coefficient of lift

– Coefficient of moment

– Cold temperature airport

– Collective

– Commercial pilot license

– Common-use self-service (CUSS)

– Compass

– Compression lift

– Compressor stall

– Constant speed drive (CSD)

– Contour flying

– Controlled airspace

– CVFR

– Convergent Exhaust Nozzle Control (CENC)

– Convertiplane

– Cowling

– Crab landing

– Crash position indicator

– Cross control

– CTAF

– Cyclic

D

Deep stall

– Delta wing

– Dihedral

– Dilbert Dunker

– Distance measuring equipment (DME)

– Distributed propulsion

– Downwash

– Drag

– Drag-reducing aerospike

– Drop tank

– Drogue parachute

– Drop zone

– Dual control

– Ducted fan

– Dutch roll

E

Elevator

– Elevon

– Emergency locator beacon

– Emergency locator transmitter ELT

– Empennage (tail section)

– Endless runway

– Enhanced flight vision system (EFVS/EVS)

– Escape pod

– ETOPS

– Exhaust mixer

– Exoskeletal engine (ESE)

– Experimental aircraft

– External vision system (XVS)

– Eurocontrol (European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation)

– Empty weight

– Environmental and climate impacts of aviation

– Exint pod

F

Fail-safe

– Federal Aviation Administration (FAA – US authority)

– Ferri scoop

– Ferry flying

– Ferry range

– Fixed-base operator

– Flame damper

– Flame holder

– Flameout

– Flap

– Flap position indicator (FPI)

– Flight

– Flight computer

– Flight control surfaces

– Flight data recorder

– Flight deck

– Flight envelope protection

– Flight helmet

– Flight information region

– Flight instruments

– Flight length

– Flight level

– Flight management system (FMS)

– Flight plan

– Flight planning

– Flight simulator

– Flight test

– Flight training

– Flight time

– Floating airport

– Forward-looking infrared (FLIR)

– Fly-by-wire (FBW)

– Flying

– Flying car

– Flying families

– Fly-in

– Flying Platform

– Flying wing

– Folding wing

– Form drag

– Formation light

- Flight information service

– Fuel control unit

– Fuel dumping

G

Geared turbofan

– General aviation

– g-LOC

– G-suit

– Glass cockpit

– Glide path

– Glider aircraft

– Glider (sailplane)

– Glider pilot certificate

– Glider snatch pick-up

– Gliding

– Gluhareff Pressure Jet

– Go around

– GPS

– Gravel kit

– Great-circle distance

– Ground Air Emergency Code

– Ground carriage

– Ground effect

– Ground support equipment

– Gust lock

– Gyrodyne

– Gyro gunsight

H

Hard deck

– Hard landing

– Hardstand

– Heading indicator

– Head-up display (HUD)

– Hold (aviation)

– History of aviation

– Helicopter

– Helicopter flight controls

– Helocast

– High-lift device

– Horseshoe vortex

– Hush kit

– Hypermobility

– Hypersonic flight

I

ICAO spelling alphabet

– Inertia coupling

– Inertial Navigation System

– Infrared (IR)

– Infrared search and track (IRST)

– Infrared signature

– Instrument flight rules (IFR)

– Instrument landing system (ILS)

– Instrument rating

– Indicated airspeed

– Inlet cone

– Intake/Inlet blank

– Intake ramp

– Interception procedure

– International Air Transport Association (IATA)

– International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)

– Integrated drive generator (IDG)

– Integrated engine pressure ratio (IEPR)

– Intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance (ISTAR)

– International Fighter Pilots Academy (IFPA)

- Instrument meteorological conditions

– Ion-propelled aircraft

– Iron bird

J

Jet airliner

– Jet blast deflector (JBD)

– Jet engine

– Jetliner

– Jettison

– Jet wash

– Jetway

– Joint-use airport

– Joystick

K

Kneeboard

– Krueger flap

L

Landing

– Landing gear

– Landing gear extender

– Landing lights

– Landing mirror

– Landing signal officer

– Landing T

– Landing zone

– Laser induced cavitation

– Laser supported detonation wave

– Lateral control system (LCS)

– Launch and recovery cycle

– Leading-edge extension (LEVCON)

– Lift (force)

– Lift-induced drag

– Light-sport aircraft

– Low-altitude parachute-extraction system

– Lower Airspace Radar Service (LARS)

M

Machmeter

– Mach tuck

– Magnetic chip detector

– Maintenance

– Master jet base

– METAR

– Meteorology

– Maintenance, repair and overhaul

– Minimum interval takeoff (MITO)

– Mobility

– Mobile Air Traffic Control Tower (Mobile ATC/MATC)

– Mobile Electric Power Plant (MEPP)

– Moving map display (MMD)

– Multi-function display (MFD)

N

NACA duct

– Nacelle

– Nanolight

– Nautical airmile

– Naval air station (NAS)

– Naval outlying landing field

– Naval aviation (NAV-AV)

– Navalised aircraft

– Navigation

- Navigation light

– Night aviation regulations in the US

– No-fly zone

– Non-directional beacon (NDB)

– Non-towered airport

– Nose bullet

– NOTAM

O

Obstacle departure procedure

– Obstacle-free zone (OFZ)

– Oleo strut

– Operational Readiness Platform (ORP)

– Oshkosh Airshow

– Overhead join

P

Parts departing aircraft

– Performance and weather minima

– Performance envelope

– Personal air vehicle

– Phugoid

– Pickle switch

– Pilot controlled lighting

– Pilot direction indicator (PDI)

– Pilot licenses

– Pilot licensing and certification

– Pilot reports (PIREPS)

– Pilot's Projected Display Indicator (PPDI)

– Plane guard

– Plasma cavitator leading edge

– Podded engines

– Powered lift

– Power push-over

– Precision approach path indicator

– Precooled jet engine

– Private pilot license

– Prone pilot

– Propeller

– Propelling nozzle

– Propfan

– Propulsion-controlled aircraft (PCA)

– Pulsejet

– Pushback (aviation)

Q

Quick access recorder

– QFE

– QNH

– Q code

– QTOL

R

Radar

– Radar intercept officer

– Radio beacon

– Radar blip

– Radar cross-section

– Radar gunsight

– Radar lock-on

– Radar picket

– Radar warning receiver

– Ram air turbine

– Ramjet

– Reaction engine

– Reaction propulsion

– Ready room

– Rearward visibility panels

– Reciprocating engines

– Red square

– Reduced-gravity aircraft

– Reduced take-off and landing (RTOL)

– Relaxed stability

– Remove before flight tag

– RIAT

– Roadable aircraft

– Rocket turbine engine

– Rogallo wing

– Rotating detonation engine

– Rough-field capability

– Route structure

– Rudder

– Ruddervator

– Rule of three (aviation)

– Runway

– Runway safety area (RSA)

– Run-up (aviation)

S

Satellite airfield

– Scramjet

– Seaplane base

– Second line

– Sectional chart

– Self-sealing fuel tank

– Shock diamond

– Shcramjet

– Short-field landing

– Side-Looking Airborne Radar (SLAR)

– Signal square

– Simultaneous approach

– Skid

– Spatial disorientation

– Spar

– Spin (flight)

– Spoiler (aeronautics)

– Spy basket

– Slats

– Slip landing

– Soft deck

– specific fuel consumption (propeller engines)

– Specific fuel consumption (jet engines)

– Sport pilot certificate

– Stabilator

– Stagger

– Stall

– Standard day

– Stealth aircraft

– Stick shaker

– STOLport

– Sto-wing

– Strike package

– Student pilot certificate

– Supercruise

– Supermaneuverability

– Supine cockpit

– Swedish Civil Aviation Administration

– Swing-wing

– Synthetic cockpit

– Synthetic vision system (SVS)

T

T-tail

– Tactical Camera System (TCS)

– Tabletop runway

– Tactical beacon (TACBE)

– Tailess aircraft

– Tail-dragger

– Tailhook

– Tail-sitter

– Takeoff

– Takeoff/go-around switch

– Target blip

– Taxiing

– Taxiway

– Terrain-following radar (TFR)

– Ten-code

– Terminal area chart

– Testbed aircraft

– Three-surface aircraft

– Thrust lever

– Thrust reversal

– Thrust vectoring

– Track while scan

– Traffic pattern indicator

– Trailing cone

– Transatlantic flight

– List of transponder codes

– Trim tab

– True airspeed

– Turbine engine

– Turn and bank indicator

– Twin-boom aircraft

– Twin-fuselage aircraft

– Twin tail

U

Uncontrolled airport (see Non-towered airport)

– Uncontrolled airspace

– Underground hangar

– Urban Air Mobility

– Usable fuel

V

V speeds

– V-tail

– Valveless pulsejet

– Variable cycle engine

– Venturi effect

– Versatile Digital Analyzer (VERDAN)

– Vertical situation display (VSD)

– Vertical speed indicator

– Vertical stabilizer (fin)

– VFR-on-top

– VFR over-the-top

– Very light jet (VLJ)

– Visual approach

– Visual approach slope indicator (VASI)

– Visual flight rules (VFR)

– V<sub>NE</sub>

– VOR VHF omni-range (type of navigational beacon)

– Visual meteorological conditions

– Vortex generator

W

War emergency power

– Water landing

– Wave off

– Waverider

– Waypoint

– Wayport

– Wheel chock

– Whiz Wheel

– Wide-body aircraft

– Wind shear

– Wind tunnel

– Wing

– Wingman

– Wingtip vortices

– Wingbox

– Wingless Electromagnetic Air Vehicle

– Winglet

– Wire strike protection system

– World aeronautical chart

Y

Yaw angle

– Yaw string

– Yehudi lights

Z

Zero-fuel weight

– Zero-length launch

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B

C

D

E

F

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J

K

L

M

N

O

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R

S

T

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See also