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  Aircraft
The major distinction in aircraft usage is between military aviation, which includes all uses of airplane for military purposes (such as combat, patrolling, search and rescue, reconnaissance, transport, and training), and civil aviation, which includes all uses of airplanes for non-military purposes.
Within general aviation, the major distinction is between private flights (where the pilot is not paid for time or expenses) and commercial flights (where the pilot is paid by a customer or employer).
Commercial general aviation pilots use aircraft for a wide range of tasks, such as flight training, pipeline surveying, passenger and freight transport, policing, crop dusting, and medical transport (medevac).
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 List of aviation, aerospace and aeronautical terms - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A glossary of terms used in relation to aircraft, in alphabetical order.
Instrument flight rules; a regulatory term describing a flight which may be conducted in conditions where the pilot cannot see outside the aircraft (e.g.
Visual flight rules; a regulatory term describing flights that are conducted only in conditions where the pilot can see the ground, or in some instances is flying in the free space above a cloud.
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A glossary is a list of terms ''and their definitions''.
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 Aviation   (Site not responding. Last check: )
See also: List of aviation, aerospace and aeronautical terms There are several ways to classify aircraft.
In most countries, military and civil aviation operate under different sets of regulations, and sometimes conflicts occur when the two share the same airspace.
Commercial general aviation pilots (when not flying privately) use aircraft for a wide range of tasks, such as flight training, pipeline surveying, passenger and freight transport, policing, crop dusting, and medical transport (medevac).
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List of aviation, aerospace and aeronautical terms There are several ways to classify aircraft.
The rule air airline tran of thumb I use is to, wherever possible, avoid using either term in favour of the uncontroversial term "aircraft".
The claim that a group of entities on average exhibits characteristic X does not mean that all members of that group exhibit that characteristic.
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Most often it is a record of an amount of money owned or owed by or to a particular person or entity, or allocated to a particular purpose.
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 Dictionary of Aeronautical Terms (3rd ed)/741T, Aviation Supplies & Academics
Aviation is an industry of acronyms and technical language.
This dictionary is essential for everyone in the aviation industry, especially newcomers to aviation or those who speak English as a second language.
The most complete collection of aviation terminology available, this new edition defines more than 7,400 terms and is full of illustrations.
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Fixed-wing aircraft is a term used to refer to monoplanes, biplanes and triplanes, in fact all conventional aircraft that are neither balloons, airships, autogyros, helicopters or tiltrotors.
The term Commonwealth English is used as a collective term for those variants of the English language used in the Commonwealth of Nations, such as Australian English, British English, Caribbean English, Canadian English, Indian English, New Zealand English, Pakistani English and South African English.
However, the terms "terminal" and "concourse" are sometimes used interchangeably, depending on the configuration of the airport., and the buildings that provide access to the airplanes are typically called concourses.
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 Farmingdale State College Catalog
The student's flight training, under the supervision of the Chief Pilot, is conducted at the Republic Aviation Center, approximately one and one half miles from the main Farmingdale campus.
The Bachelor of Science in Aviation Administration prepares graduates for entry level administrative/ management positions throughout the three major segments of the aviation industry: manufacturing, the airlines and general aviation.
Ever-increasing technological advances in aviation equipment and systems, combined with the highly complex and intricate configurations contemplated within a national systems plan, are creating a demand for persons who possess an expertise and understanding unique to the industry.
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 Category:Aerospace engineering - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Aerospace engineering is the branch of engineering concerning aircraft and spacecraft.
The main article for this category is Aerospace engineering.
This page was last modified 19:49, 4 August 2005.
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By extension the word became (as recently as the 18th century) synonymous with an individual commercial enterprise.
This definition resembles one of the more general meanings of "business", and the terms business and industry sometimes appear interchangeable.
Thus a fisherman might sayeither (more colloquially) that he is in the " fishing business" or (somewhatgrandiosely) that he works in the "fishing industry".
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 Wikipedia: List of glossaries
For a list of terminology (sorted by topic) at Wiktionary, see By_Topic.
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 Wilbur and Orville Wright --  Encyclopædia Britannica
American brothers, inventors, and aviation pioneers who achieved the first powered, sustained, and controlled airplane flight (1903) and built and flew the first fully practical airplane (1905).
Features a detailed timeline, image galleries, an aeronautics glossary, audio and video clips, lesson plans and lectures in HTML and PDF format, and puzzles and a comic book for kids.
Includes a timeline of aviation history, and material on Wrights' early experiments with gliders and on their aircraft models and engines.
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 Aviation Week Conferences&Exhibitions
The world of aerospace has become an intricate matrix of transnational partnerships with supply chains that stretch around the planet in search of low costs, high quality and speed.
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 Embry-Riddle Professor Mavis Green Becomes UAA President
Green, an associate professor of Aeronautical Science at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Fla., announced the results of UAA's recent elections that include three officers and six Board of Trustees members.
Members elected for three-year Board terms include: Dr. Mary Ann Turney, a professional member representing four-year institutions; Gordon Hoff, a professional member representing two-year institutions; and Susan Burrell, an associate member representing the aviation industry.
She holds a doctorate in education from the University of Illinois, a master's degree in aviation safety from Central Missouri State University, and a bachelor's degree in environmental science.
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 Aero-News Network: The Aviation and Aerospace World's Daily/Real-Time News and Information Service
But without the long term forces of independant regulatory accountability counteracting the short term economic and other transcient forces facing business today, NATCA fears all will not be well for long.
An aviation "cold case" has been solved, as skeletal remains found in the wreckage of a classic Bellanca found in September have been positively identified.
ASR features may include exclusive interviews with Aviation's Newsmakers, ANN's Special Investigative reports and solid analysis of the stories that will have undeniable impact on the world of aviation and aerospace.
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Dictionary of Aeronautical Terms (3rd ed)/741T by Dale Crane
The material in this text is designed primarily as a resource for students of aviation technology who are preparing for FAA aircraft and powerplant maintenance certification.
Chapters are well illustrated and present specific aspects of aircraft materials, fabrication processes, maintenance tools and techniques, and federal aviation regulations.
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 GLOSSARY OF AVIATION ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Select the first letter of the word from the list above to jump to appropriate section of the glossary.
If the term you are looking for starts with a digit or symbol, choose the '#' link.
ATN Aeronautical Telecommunications Network (the collection of ground subnetworks, air/ground subnetworks and airborne subnetworks interconnected by ATN routers that support computer-to-computer, internetwork communication and message transfer between host computers using the OSI ISO protocol architecture)
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 AIA's Aerospace Job Links
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