Index of aviation articles

Aviation accidents and incidents – ADF – Accessory drive – Advance airfield – Advanced Air Mobility – Adverse yaw – 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 – Aerospace – Aerospace engineering – Afterburner – Aileron – Air Charter – Air defense identification zone (ADIZ) – Air Freight Terminal – Air traffic flow management – Airband – Airbase – Aircraft maintenance engineer (AME) – Aircraft maintenance technician (AMT) – Aircraft registration – Aircraft – Aircraft catapult – Aircraft engine controls – Aircraft lavatory – Aircraft marshalling – Aircraft noise – Aircraft ordnance – Airfoil – Airline Transport Pilot License – Airline – Airliner – 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 – Altimeter – Altiport – Altitude – Angel Flight – Angle of attack – Angle of incidence – Anhedral – Anti-torque pedals (Helicopter rudder pedals) – Arresting gear – Artificial horizon – Aspect ratio (wing) – Assisted take-off – Attitude indicator – Autoland – Automatic dependent surveillance – broadcast – Automatic Terminal Information Service (ATIS) – Autorotation (helicopter) – Autorotation (fixed-wing aircraft) – Autopilot – Aviation – Aviation archaeology – Aviation history – Aviation light signals – Aviation medical examiner (AME) – Aviation safety – Aviation system – Aviator – Avionics – Auxiliary power unit

Balloon (aircraft) – Bird strike – Blast pad – Blimp – Brevity code – Brodie landing system – §Bypass ratio

Canard – Center of gravity (aircraft) – Chord (aircraft) – Circuit (airfield) – Civil Air Patrol (US Air Force Auxiliary) – Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) – Clear-air turbulence – Cloaking device – Cockpit – Cockpit voice recorder – Coefficient of lift – Coefficient of moment – Collective – Commercial pilot license – Common-use self-service (CUSS) – Compass – Compressor stall – Contour flying – Controlled airspace – CVFR – Crab landing – Crash position indicator – Cross control – CTAF – Cyclic

Deep stall – Delta wing – Dihedral – Distance measuring equipment (DME) – Drag – Drop zone – Dual control – Ducted fan – dumb-bell – Dutch roll

Elevator – Elevon – Emergency locator beacon – Emergency locator transmitter ELT – Empennage (tail section) – ETOPS – Experimental aircraft – Eurocontrol (European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation) – Empty weight – Environmental and climate impacts of aviation

Fail-safe – Federal Aviation Administration (FAA – US authority) – Fixed-base operator – Flame holder – Flap – Flight – Flight control surfaces – Flight data recorder – Flight envelope protection – Flight information region – Flight instruments – Flight length – Flight level – Flight management system – Flight plan – Flight planning – Flight simulator – Flight training – Flight time – Fly-by-wire – Flying – Flying car – Flying families – Flying Platform – Flying wing – Form drag - From the Ground Up (book) - Flight information service – Fuel control unit

General aviation – Glass cockpit – Glide path – Glider aircraft – Glider (sailplane) – Glider pilot certificate – Gliding – Gluhareff Pressure Jet – Go around – GPS – Great-circle distance – Ground Air Emergency Code – Ground carriage – Ground effect – Ground support equipment

Heading indicator – Hold (aviation) – History of aviation – Helicopter – Helicopter flight controls – Hypermobility – Hypersonic flight

ICAO spelling alphabet – Infrared signature – Instrument flight rules (IFR) – Instrument landing system (ILS) – Instrument rating – Indicated airspeed – International Air Transport Association (IATA) – International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) – Integrated engine pressure ratio (IEPR) – International Fighter Pilots Academy (IFPA) - Instrument meteorological conditions

Jet Airliner – Jet blast deflector – Jet engine – Jetliner – Jetway – Joint-use airport – Joystick

Landing – Landing T – Landing zone – Leading-edge extension – Lift (force) – Lift-induced drag – Light-sport aircraft – Low-altitude parachute-extraction system

Machmeter – Mach tuck – Magnetic chip detector – Maintenance – METAR – Meteorology – Maintenance, repair and overhaul – Mobility – Multi-function display

Nautical airmile – Naval air station – Naval outlying landing field – Navigation – Non-directional beacon (NDB) – Non-towered airport – Night aviation regulations in the US - Navigation light -NOTAM

Oshkosh Airshow – Overhead join

Performance and weather minima – Performance envelope – Personal air vehicle – Pilot controlled lighting – Pilot licenses – Pilot licensing and certification – Pilot reports (PIREPS) – Precision approach path indicator – Private pilot license – Propeller – Propfan – Pulsejet – Pushback

QFE – QNH – Q code

Radar – Radar intercept officer – Radio beacon – Radar cross-section – Ramjet – Reaction engine – Reaction propulsion – Reciprocating engines – Red square – Relaxed stability – RIAT – Roadable aircraft – Rogallo wing – Rotating detonation engine – Route structure – Rudder – Ruddervator – Rule of three (aviation) – Runway – Run-up (aviation)

Satellite airfield – Scramjet – Seaplane base - Sectional chart – Shcramjet – Signal square – Spatial disorientation – Spar – Spin (flight) – Spoiler (aeronautics) – Slats – Slip landing – specific fuel consumption (propeller engines) – Specific fuel consumption (thrust) (jet engines) – Sport pilot certificate – Stall (flight) – Standard day – Stealth aircraft – Stick shaker – STOLport – Student pilot certificate – Swedish Civil Aviation Administration – Swing-wing

T-tail – Tabletop runway – Tactical beacon (TACBE) – Tailess aircraft – Tailhook – Takeoff – Taxiing – Taxiway – Ten-code – Terminal area chart – Thrust vectoring – Traffic pattern indicator – Transatlantic flight – True airspeed – Turbine engine – Turn and bank indicator

Uncontrolled airport (see Non-towered airport) – Uncontrolled airspace – Underground hangar – Urban Air Mobility

V speeds – V-tail – Valveless pulsejet – Vertical speed indicator – Vertical stabilizer (fin) – Visual approach slope indicator (VASI) – Visual flight rules (VFR) – V_NE – VOR VHF omni-range (type of navigational beacon) - Visual meteorological conditions

Waverider – Wayport – Wide-body aircraft – Wind shear – Wing – Winglet – World aeronautical chart

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