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Aviation, or air transport, refers to the activities surrounding mechanical flight and the aircraft industry. Aircraft includes fixed-wing and rotary-wing types, morphable wings, wing-less lifting bodies, parachutes, as well as lighter-than-air craft such as balloons and airships. Aviation began in the 18th century with the development of the hot air balloon, an apparatus capable of atmospheric displacement through lighter-than-air buoyancy. The most significant advancement in aviation technology came with the controlled gliding flying of Otto Lilienthal; then a large step in significance came with the construction of the first powered airplane in the early 1900s. Since that time, aviation has been technologically revolutionized with the introduction of the jet which permitted a major form of transport throughout the world.
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A jet engine is a type of air-breathing turbine engine, often used on aircraft. The engine draws air in at the front and compresses it. The air then combines with fuel and the engine burns the resulting mixture. The combustion greatly increases the volume of the gases which are then exhausted out of the rear of the engine. The process is similar to a four-stroke cycle, but with the processes - induction, compression, ignition and exhaust - taking place continuously.
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An airfield traffic pattern is a standard path followed by aircraft when taking off or landing at an airport.The pattern (or circuit) is used to coordinate air traffic, and differs from straight-in approaches and departures in that aircraft remain in close proximity to the airport. Circuits are usually employed at small general aviation (GA) airfields and military airbases.
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June 13
- 1921 - the US Army and Navy begin trials in Chesapeake Bay to test the effectiveness of aircraft in attacking ships. The captured German destroyer G-102, light cruiser Frankfurt and battleship Ostfriesland will all be successfully sunk by aerial bombing.
- 1917 - 14 Gotha bombers make the most destructive air-raid on London of the First World War. Attacking in daylight, 162 people are killed and 432 wounded.
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The Airbus A340 is a long-range four-engined widebody commercial passenger airplane manufactured by Airbus. The latest variants (-600 & A340E) now compete with Boeing's 777 series of aircraft on long-haul and ultra long-haul routes.
The A340-600 flies 380 passengers in a three-class cabin layout (419 in 2 class) over 7,500 nautical miles (13,900 km). It provides similar passenger capacity to a 747 but with twice the cargo volume, and at lower trip and seat costs.
The A340-600 is more than 10 m longer than a basic -300, making it the longest airliner in the world, more than four meters longer than a Boeing 747-400.
- Span: 63.45 m (208 ft 2 in)
- Length: 75.30 m n(246 ft 11 in)
- Height: 17.30 m (56 ft 9 in)
- Engines: four 56,000 lbf (249 kN) thrust Rolls-Royce Trent 556 turbofans
- Cruising Speed: Mach 0.83 (885 km/h, 550 mph)
- First Flight: October 25, 1991
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Aviation is also part of the wider category Transportation.
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Elizabeth 'Bessie' Coleman (January 26, 1892 – April 30, 1926), popularly known as "Queen Bess," was the first African American (male or female) to become an airplane pilot, and the first American of any race or gender to hold an international pilot license. Growing up in Chicago, she heard tales of the world from pilots who were returning home from World War I. They told stories about flying in the war, and Coleman started to fantasize about being a pilot. She could not gain admission to American flight schools because she was black and a woman. No black U.S. aviator would train her either. Coleman took French language class at the Berlitz school in Chicago, and then traveled to Paris on November 20, 1920. Coleman learned to fly in a Nieuport Type 82 biplane.
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From Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft:
- US Air Force changed all their home pages - numerous Air Force links need to be fixed (not just AFM)
- T-50 Golden Eagle - 2007-07-29 Missing a couple specs, could use more details on development and features.
- Junkers Ju 52 - 2006-05-07 More Design and development information required
- Hawker Hunter - 2007-07-29 Much expanded
- Regional airliner - 2006-05-07 just moved from regional jet, needs refinement
- FMA IA 63 Pampa - 2006-05-12:
- C-5 Galaxy - 2008-05-06 Needs some expanding in places and better referencing.
- C-141 Starlifter - 2007-07-28 Has good info on the variants, development and history. Could use more details on its history and its references; find and fix WPAFB ref.
- Gloster Gladiator - 2007-05-12 Much improved
- Airbus A330 MRTT - 2007-05-17 Poorly organised, needs more information about the plane itself.
- Antonov An-2 - 2006-06-27 Written far too informally, and focusing too much on trivia.
- Boeing Pelican - 2006-07-08 Needs template/table and list cleanup, information filled in and references cleanup
- Cessna Citation - 2006-07-25 (and all Citation variants) Need general cleanup and styling to meet WP:Air standards.
- B-47 Stratojet- 2007-08-20 Has an enormous amount of information (is this a bad idea?), but much of it is too detailed/of questionable notability. Also lacking in some critical areas. Update: cleaned-up and re-org'ed. Plz review.
- C-1 Trader - 2006-11-16 Needs a picture, and reworking.
- Shaanxi Y-8 - 2006-12-27 I've been working on improving this article, but the Operational Usage section needs more expansion. Help also needed getting the citations organized better.
- Nanchang Q-5 - 2007-01-10 Needs a picture and desperately needs a good cleanup/copyedit (the Chengdu J-7 needs the latter, also).
- Raytheon Sentinel - 2007-02-01 Hasn't been updated since 2004 when the aircraft was still in development, no specs, no details.
- Avro Arrow - 2007-03-25 Recently on hold as a GA candidate, some rewrite started. Earlier request was made to split off political considerations into a related article; also troll alert on talk page, after a long period of inactivity, the troll is back.
- Mooney M20 - 2007-04-01 Reads like an operating handbook, not an article.
- XB-70 Valkyrie - 2007-10-13 Development section in great shape. Flight testing is covered OK now. Could use more design info.
- Haynes Aero Skyblazer - 2007-07-01 Roadable aircraft or flying car under development. Clean-up and expand as more information comes available.
- F-104 Starfighter - 2007-09-23 Expand to sub-articles on S-variant, variants, and operators. In talk phase, see Talk:F-104 Starfighter.
- Boeing 737 - 2008-01-22 Article is being rewritten/reworked now. Help where you can.
- Aermacchi MB-326 - 2007-10-12 Textdump has added lots of information but needs large amounts of editing.
- Savoia-Marchetti S.83 - 2007-10-12 Textdump has added lots of information but needs large amounts of editing, and check any of the recent additions to Italian aircraft articles for more of the same.
- Bede BD-5 - 2007-10-12 Large areas of the text have been challenged as {advert} violations.
- F-14 Tomcat - 2007-10-31 Has overly detailed design subsections. Details need to be summarized or removed where appropriate. Some upgrade and transformation info needs to be moved to Development also.
- F-4 Phantom II U.S. operators - 2008-05-056 Could use some connecting text and referencing.
From Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation/Maintenance:
[edit] Request for Comment
Request for comment at Wikipedia:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2007-01-07 Singapore Airlines#Request For Comment: Reasons For/Against.05:11, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
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