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A
AIRMET
AOG Desk
ASEL
List of aviation, aerospace and aeronautical abbreviations
Above ground level
Above mean sea level
Adaptive Compliant Wing
Advanced Booking Charter
Aerial topdressing
Aerial warfare
Aerodrome
Aeroelasticity
Aeronautical Fixed Telecommunication Network
Aeronautical Information Service
Aeronautical Message Handling System
Aeronautical Telecommunications Network
Aeronautical chart
Aeronautical chart conventions (United States)
Aerostructure
Air ambulance
Air charter
Air combat manoeuvring
Air data boom
Air launch
Air taxi
Air traffic control
Terminal Radar Service Area
VFR-on-Top
Air traffic flow management
Airborne Real-time Cueing Hyperspectral Enhanced Reconnaissance
Airborne radio relay
Aircraft
Aircraft Communication Addressing and Reporting System
Aircraft Situation Display to Industry
Aircraft attitude
Aircraft axis
Aircraft boneyard
Aircraft canopy
Aircraft compass turns
Aircraft disinsection
Aircraft ground handling
Aircraft landing lights
Aircraft marshalling
Aircraft on ground
Aircraft registration
Aircraft report
Aircraft safety card
Aircraft specific energy
Aircraft systems
Fuel system
Aircrew
Airfield rubber removal
Airfield traffic pattern
Airframe
Airmanship
Airplane observation
Airport of entry
Airport reference temperature
Airspeed
Airway (aviation)
Angel Flight
Angle of incidence
Area Control Center
Area navigation
Armstrong Limit
Astrodome (aviation)
Asymmetrical thrust
Atlantic Bridge
Autoland
Automated airport weather station
Automatic Terminal Information Service
Automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast
Autorotation
Autothrottle
Aviation regulations
B
BUMPH
Backtaxi
Balanced field takeoff
Banked turn
Basic fighter maneuvers
Bay of Bengal Cooperative Air Traffic Flow Management System
Big sky theory
Biplane
Birdstrike simulator
Bitching Betty
Blue ice (aircraft)
Blue note (aviation)
Boarding (transport)
Bolter (aviation)
Brace position
Braking action
Brodie landing system
Brownout (aviation)
Bush flying
C
CIGAR (aviation)
Cabin pressurization
Calibrated airspeed
Captive carry
Carburetor heat
Ceiling (aeronautics)
Ceiling (cloud)
Center of gravity of an aircraft
Chain of events (aviation)
Chandelle
Chase plane
Chock (wheel)
Clean configuration
Climb
Cloud suck
Coffin corner (aviation)
Commercial aviation
Constant Torque On Take-off
Contrail
Control Area
Control Zone
Controlled airspace
Controller Pilot Data Link Communications
Cooper-Harper rating scale
Coordinated flight
Crab angle
Crew Resource Management
Critical Mach number
Critical engine
Cross-country flying
Cruise (flight)
Cyclic/collective pitch mixing
D
Decision height
Deicing fluid
Density altitude
Descent (aircraft)
Dihedral
Direct flight
Disk loading
Displaced threshold
Dissymmetry of lift
Diversion airport
Dogfight
Double-deck aircraft
Drag divergence Mach number
Dynamic rollover
E
ERAM
EZFW
Eights on pylons
Empennage
Endurance (aircraft)
Engine number
Equivalent airspeed
European Flight Test Safety Award
Experimental aircraft
F
FADEC
Ferry flying
Final approach (aviation)
Flame holder
Flameout
Flight Information Region
Flight Operations Quality Assurance
Flight ceiling
Flight envelope
Flight information display system
Flight length
Flight level
Flight number
Flight plan
Flight planning
Flight suit
Flight test
Flight test engineer
Flutter (aircraft)
Fly-in
Foreign object damage
Formation flying
Fractional Jets
Fuel dumping
Fuel fraction
Fuel hedging
Functional Airspace Block
Fuselage
G
G-suit
GAFOR
Gascolator
General aviation in Europe
General aviation in the United Kingdom
Geodesic airframe
Glide ratio
Global horizontal sounding technique
Go-around
Gravelkit
Graveyard spiral
Ground loop (aviation)
Ground proximity warning system
Ground resonance
Ground speed
Groundcrew
Gull wing
Gurney flap
Gust lock
H
HASELL
Heavy (aviation)
Height-velocity diagram
Helmet fire
Heritage aircraft
High-hypersonic speed regime
High-speed flight
Holding (aviation)
Horizontal situation indicator
Hot and high
Hover (helicopter)
Hypersonic
I
IMSAFE
Icing conditions
Immelmann turn
Indicated airspeed
Inertia coupling
Initial approach fix
Instrument approach
Instrument flight rules
Instrument meteorological conditions
Integrated Engine Pressure Ratio
International Standard Atmosphere
International airport
Interplane strut
Intersection (aviation)
J
Jet age
Jet blast
Johnson's Corner
K
Kneeboard (flight)
L
Land and hold short operations
Lateral axis
Leading edge
Leading edge slot
Lift (force)
Lift-to-drag ratio
List of wide-body aircraft
List of works with the equal transit-time fallacy
Local Area Augmentation System
Localizer
Localizer Performance with Vertical guidance
Loiter (flight)
Longitudinal static stability
Low level windshear alert system
Low-g condition
Low-speed flight
Lowest safe altitude
Lufbery circle
M
METAR
MORA (aviation)
Machmeter
Maiden flight
Maintenance Resource Management (MRM)
Malcolm hood
Manufacturer's Weight Empty
Maximum Elevation Figure
Maximum Takeoff Weight
Maximum Zero-Fuel Weight
Microwave Scanning Beam Landing System
Mid-air retrieval
Mile high club
Military airbase
Military operations area
Missed approach
Missed approach point
Monocoque
N
NORDO
NOTAM
Nap-of-the-earth
National Airspace System
National Ground Stop
Navigation paradox
Near space
Non-stop flight
Non-towered airport
Nose art
O
Operating empty weight
Option (aircraft purchasing)
Overbooking
Overhead join
Overspeed (aircraft)
P
P-factor
PANS-OPS
Payload (air and space craft)
Pilot in command
Pilot report
Pitch-up
Planform
Podded engine
Polar curve (aviation)
Portable Collision Avoidance System
Position error
Powerback
Precision Approach Path Indicator
Pressure altitude
Pressure suit
Prevailing visibility
Private aviation
Prohibited airspace
Propeller synchronization
Pushback
Q
QNH
Qff
Quota count system
R
ROT
Range (aircraft)
Rate of climb
Rejected takeoff
Relative wind
Relief airport
Restricted airspace
Retreating blade stall
Ridge lift
Rudder ratio
Rule 240
Run-up (aviation)
Runway
Runway Status Lights
Runway incursion
Runway visual range
S
S-duct
SARP
SELCAL
SIGMET
SPATO (Single Pilot Air Taxi Operator)
Sabre dance (pitch-up)
Safety pilot
The Scissors
Scud running
Self-Organized Time Division Multiple Access
Settling with power
Shock cooling (engines)
Sideslip angle
Simplified Directional Facility
Single Frequency Approach
Sky anchor
Slip (aerodynamic)
Slip-turn
Slope soaring
Slow flight
Small aircraft
Sonic boom
Sound barrier
Special use airspace
Special visual flight rules
Speed to fly
Spin (flight)
Split S
Spoiler (aeronautics)
Stall (flight)
State vector (geographical)
Static pressure
Station model
Step climb
Sterile Cockpit Rule
Stick shaker
Stressed skin
Subsonic flight
Supersonic
Surface weather observation
Surveillance radar approach
Swashplate (helicopter)
Swept wing
System Area Code
System Wide Information Management
T
T6NL
TOGA
Tacco
Tactical Air Navigation
Takeoff
Taxiing
Terminal Aerodrome Forecast
Terminal Control Area
Terminal Control Center
Test pilot
Thach Weave
Thermal
Thrust lever
Thrust reversal
Time between overhaul
Tombstone mentality
Top of climb
Top of descent
Torque effect
Total air temperature
Touch-and-go landing
Traffic Collision Avoidance System
Trailing edge
Transcontinental flight
Transition level
Translational lift
Transonic
Transpacific
Transponder (aviation)
Transverse axis (aircraft)
Trijet
True airspeed
Turn coordinator
Turn indicator
Twin-aisle
U
UNICOM
Uncontrolled airspace
Uncontrolled decompression
Unit Load Device
User:Sloumeau
V
V speeds
VFR Over-The-Top
VHF Data Link
VHF omnidirectional range
Vection
Vertical axis (aircraft)
Vertical stabilizer
Victor airways
Visual Approach Slope Indicator
Visual flight
Visual flight (aviation)
Visual flight rules
Vortex ring
W
Weathervane effect
Wheel-barrowing
Wide-body aircraft
Wind gradient
Wind triangle
Wingtip device
Y
Yaw angle
Yaw rate sensor
Yaw string
Yaw, pitch, and roll
Z
Zaon Flight Systems, Inc.
Zoom climb
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