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A

  • Aerodrome
  • Aerodyne
  • Aeromedical Services
  • Aeronaut
  • Aeroplane
  • Aerostat
  • Ailerons
  • Air base
  • Air force
  • Air Tour Operators
  • Aircraft
  • Airman
  • Airplane
  • Airport
  • Airship
  • Airstair
  • Airway Distance
  • Apron
  • Attitude
  • Autogyro
  • Available seat miles
  • Available Ton Miles (ATMs)
  • Aviator

B

  • Balloon
  • Biplane
  • Blimp
  • Block Rates
  • Block Speed
  • Bomber
  • Breakeven load factor

C

  • Cabin-Class Twin
  • Camber
  • Center of gravity (CG)
  • Certificate
  • Chord
  • Cockpit
  • Contrail
  • Control surface
  • Control tower
  • Corporate Jets
  • Cost per Available Seat Mile (CASM)
  • Course
  • Crab
  • Cruise Range
  • Cruise Speed

D

  • Dihedral angle
  • Dirigible
  • Dry lease
  • Duty Time

E

  • Elevator
  • Elevons

F

  • FBO Fixed Base Operator
  • Feather
  • Flaps
  • Flight level
  • Flight Time
  • Fuselage

G

  • General Aviation
  • Glider
  • Glideslope
  • Gull Wing Flying Wing

H

  • Hangar
  • Heading
  • Helicopter
  • Helicopters
  • HIGE

I

  • Instrument Flight Rules (IFR)

J

  • Jet Airplanes
  • Jet bridge

K

  • Knot

L

  • Landing gear
  • Layover
  • Load Factor (LF)

M

  • Mayday
  • Metaplane
  • Minimum Daily Usage
  • Moment
  • Monocoque
  • Monoplane

N

  • Nautical Mile

O

  • On-Demand Air Cargo Operations

P

  • Panne
  • Paraglider
  • Payload
  • Pitch
  • Pitot tube
  • Positioning
  • Powerplant
  • Pressure altitude

R

  • Range
  • Roll
  • Rotorcraft
  • Rudder
  • Ruddervators
  • Runway

S

  • Sailplane
  • Sesquiplane
  • Single-Engine Piston Aircraft
  • Slip
  • Span
  • Specific impulse
  • SPS
  • Stabilator
  • Stage Length
  • Stall
  • Synchropter

T

  • Tailplane
  • Taxi
  • Taxi Time
  • Taxiway
  • Terminal
  • Thickness
  • Threshold
  • Thrust
  • Touchdown Zone (TDZ)
  • Track
  • Transponder
  • Triplane
  • Turbine Engine
  • Turbofan
  • Turboprop Aircraft
  • Twin-Engine Piston Aircraft

U

  • Ultralight

V

  • V speeds
  • Visual Flight Rules (VFR)
  • VSI

W

  • Waiting Time
  • Wet lease
  • Wind shear
  • Wing

Y

  • Yaw

Z

  • Zeppelin
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