aviation

Aviation

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Airports

• Albuquerque International Sunport
• Atlanta Airport
  
• Atlanta-Hartfield International Airport
  
• Baghdad International Airport
• Baltimore Washington International Airport
• Belfast International Airport
• Berlin Tegel Airport
• Bina International Airport
• Burbank Glendale Pasadena Airport
• Calgary International Airport
  
• Charles de Gaulle Airport (Paris)
• Charlotte/Douglas International Airport (nodeshell)
• Chicago Midway International Airport
• Chicago O'Hare International Airport
• Chubu International Airport
• Cleveland Hopkins International Airport
• Cumberland County Airport
  
• Dallas Fort Worth International Airport
  
• Denver International Airport
• Dortmund Airport
• Dublin Airport
• Ferihegy (Budapest, Hungary)
• Fukuoka Airport
• Gaza International Airport
• George Bush Intercontinental Airport
• Glasgow Prestwick International Airport
• Grand Central Airport (late of Los Angeles)
• Halifax International Airport
  
• Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport
• Helsinki-Vantaa International Airport
• Heathrow
• Hong Kong International Airport (nodeshell)
• Houston Hobby Airport
• Incheon International Airport
• Indianapolis International Airport
• Jacksonville International Airport
• John F. Kennedy International Airport (New York City)
• John Wayne Airport (nodeshell)
• Kai Tak Airport, Hong Kong
• Kansai International Airport (Osaka)
• Kansas City International Airport
• Keflavík International Airport (Reykjavik, Iceland)
• King Khalid International Airport (nodeshell)
• Köln Bonn Airport
• LaGuardia Airport (New York City)
• Leonardo da Vinci Airport (nodeshell)
• Liverpool John Lennon Airport
• Logan Airport (Boston's airport)
• London City Airport
• London Gatwick Airport
• London Stansted Airport
• Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)
• Love Field (Dallas, Texas)
• Lunken Airport (Cincinnati, Ohio)
• Luton (nodeshell) (London)
• Miami International Airport
  
• Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport
• Munich International Airport
• Nagoya Airport
• Newark Liberty International Airport, formerly Newark International Airport
• New Chitose Airport (Sapporo)
• New Tokyo International Airport (Narita)
  
• New York Skyport
• Niederrhein Airport
• Orio al Serio International Airport
• Orlando International Airport
• Philadelphia International Airport (nodeshell)
• Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport
• Pittsburgh International Airport
• Port Columbus International Airport (Columbus, OH)
  
• Portland International Airport
• Prestwick International Airport (nodeshell)
• Raleigh-Durham International Airport
• Reagan National Airport (Washington, DC)
  
• San Francisco International Airport (nodeshell)
• Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (Sea-Tac)
  
• Schiphol (Amsterdam)
• Shanghai Pudong Airport
• Shannon Airport
• Sheremetyevo Airport (Moscow)
• Tempelhof Airport (Berlin)
  
• Tokyo International Airport (Haneda)
• Toronto Airport (YYZ)
• Vancouver International Airport (nodeshell)
• Washington Dulles International Airport
• Zürich Airport

Airlines

• airline
  
• airline codes
  
• Aeroflot
• Airline Alliance
  
• Air Canada
• Air Do
• Air Koryo
• Air New Zealand
• AirTran (formerly ValuJet)
• Alitalia (nodeshell)
• All Nippon Airways
  
• American Airlines
  
• Asiana Airlines
• Austrian Airlines
• British Airways
  
• Buzz
• Canadian Airlines
  
• China Airlines
• Delta Airlines
• Eastern Airlines
• easyJet
• Finnair
• Gandalf Airlines
• JAL (Japan Airline)
  
• KLM (Royal Dutch Airlines)
• Korean Air
• Malév Hungarian Airlines
• Northwest Airlines
  
• Piedmont Airlines
• Regional and Commuter Airlines
  
• Ryanair
• Scandinavian Airlines (SAS)
• Skymark Airlines
• South African Airways
• Southwest Airlines
• Swissair
• Trans World Airlines (TWA)
• United Airlines
• US Airways
• Vlaamse Luchttransport Maatschappij (VLM)
• Western Airlines

Airport related associations and information

• Airport code
• Airline deregulation
• British Airport Authority
  
• Federal Aviation Administration
• International Air Transport Association
  
• Airport security

E2 aviation wisdom

• the best part of the airport
  
• The week of Seven Airports, two train stations, and thirteen time zones
  
• The Serial Killer Jailbait Airline Lotto
  
• I left myself at the Airport
  
• the airport pick-up
  
• Airport Internet Kiosk
  
• there is something about airports and bus terminals..
  
• My mother brings a bomb to the airport. Panic ensues.
  
• Are you mad? I'm not made of airports! Get out!
  
• at airport under stress
  
• Guerilla Aphorisms From Schipohl Airport
  
• airport accident, one slightly bruised ego one slightly damaged head
  
• how YVR almost blew up, and other airport stories from my time there
  
• airport trouble
  
• airports and metal detectors
  
• Airport security
• Airport Song
  
• Carrying a knife through airport security
  
• The airport test of relationships
  
• so I land at LaGuardia
  
• You can learn a lot about a person by how they act at an Airport
• How to fly safely
• Music for Airports
• another airport
• Things not to say when the U.S. Air Force is escorting an aircraft in your area (nodeshell)
• Why I will not fly US Airways anymore
• important aviation rules
• How to survive an aircraft mishap
• How to survive a helicopter mishap
• How to Read an Aviation Classified Advertisement

Disasters

• Air Canada Flight 621 (Ontario, 1970)
• United Airlines Flight 553 (Midway, 1972)
• Eastern Airlines flight 401 (Florida, 1972)
• American Airlines Flight 191 (Chicago, Illinois, 1979)
• Air Florida Flight 90 (Washington, DC, 1982)
• Korean Air Flight 007 (near Soviet airspace, 1983)
• Japan Airlines Flight 123 (Mt. Osutaka, Japan, 1985)
• Air India Flight 182 (Irish coast, 1985)
• Pan Am Flight 103 (Lockerbie, 1988)
• American Airlines Flight 965 (Andes, 1995)
• TWA Flight 800 and Public Hearing: TWA Flight 800 (Long Island, 1997)
• SwissAir Flight 111 (Nova Scotia, 1998)
• Public Hearing: American Airlines Flight 1420 (Little Rock, 1999)
• Singapore Airlines Flight 6 (Singapore, 2000)
• Air Transat Flight 236 (2001) -- a happy ending!
• Chronology of Tuesday, September 11, 2001
  • United Airlines Flight 175 (WTC north tower) (nodeshell)
  • American Airlines Flight 11 (WTC south tower) (nodeshell)
  • American Airlines Flight 77 (Pentagon) (nodeshell)
  • United Airlines Flight 93 (Somerset County, PA)
• American Airlines Flight 587 (New York City, New York, 2001)

E2 Airline stories and humor

• If Operating Systems Were Airlines
  
• Leg Room (As defined by the airlines)
  
• Pull A Korean Airline
  
• If Linux distributions were Airlines
  
• I'm flying transatlantic to Washington DC on Sunday, so why am I wasting time on Everything?
  
• Flying scares the crap out of me
  
• flying Concorde
  
• Heisenberg Airlines
  
• Hindenburg Airlines
  
• S&M Airlines
  
• intercontinental flying on Singapore Air is an amazingly nice experience
• Would the crew of the Millennium Falcon please come to the information desk

Airplanes, aka Aeroplanes, aka Fixed wing aircraft

• Learn how to fly
• How to land a plane
• How to work an airplane toilet door lock from the outside
• Preflight inspection
• Military aircraft - see Jane's fighting nodes for more complete list
  • US Military aircraft designations
  • A-6 Intruder
  • B-1, B-52
  • B-25 Mitchell
  • C-47 Gooney Bird
  • EA-6B Prowler
  • Fairchild Republic A-10A
  • F-5 Tiger
  • F-14 Tomcat and Tomcat F-14
  • F-15 Eagle and F-15 and F-15c
  • F-16 Fighting Falcon
  • How to make an F-16 from a cereal box, some scotch tape, and a penny
  • F/A-18
  • F-18 Hornet
  • The mystery of the F-19 fighter jet, and F19
  • F-22
  • F-100, F-101, F-105, F-106
  • F-111 and FB-111A
  • F-117 aka stealth fighter
  • MiG, MiG-25 Foxbat, MiG 29, MiG-31
  • PZL P.24
  • SR-71 Blackbird and Lockheed SR-71
  • Avro Vulcan
• Commercial aircraft
  • Airbus: 300, A300-600ST Beluga, A310, A318, A319, A320, A321, A330, A340, A380
  • Boeing: Boeing MD-11, Boeing 307 Stratoliner, 737 747, 767, 777, 787
  • DC-1
  • DC-3
  • DC-10 (just some song lyrics there now)
  • McDonnell Douglas Warranty Card
• Small aircraft
  • Cessna
  • Cessna 140
  • Cessna 172
  • Cessna Model 172-K
  • homebuilt aircraft
• Aircraft design
• Boeing
• Pratt & Whitney
  • Pratt and Whitney R-4360

Helicopters, aka Rotary Wing Aircraft

• autorotation
• helicopter etiquette
• light utility helicopter
• private helicopter
• I think we need helicopters
• Spy vs. spy
  • black helicopter AND black helicopters
  • unmarked helicopters
  • Conspiracy Theory: Black Helicopters
  • I want to pilot a black helicopter
• gunship
• Airwolf
• chopper
• Huey
• Bell 'Huey' UH1 Helicopter
• AH-1W Super Cobra
• Some radical ideas about helicopters
  • drop you from a helicopter
  • exploding helicopter
  • helicopter ejection seats
  • Helicopter seeds
  • Helicopter jelly
  • Helicopter String Quartet

Soaring

• See littlerubberfeet's fine soaring write-up

Famous Aviators and Builders

• Boeing
• Sydney Camm
• Howard Hughes
• Otto Lilienthal
• Lockheed Martin Corporation
• McDonnell Douglas Corporation
• Mikoyan Design Bureau
• Frank Whittle
• Wright Brothers - Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright

A`vi*a"tion (?), n.

The art or science of flying.

© Webster 1913.