Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft

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Welcome to the Aircraft WikiProject

Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to suggest how aircraft-related articles can be put in to Wikipedia in an extensible and coherent manner. It also wishes to encourage participation in creating and expanding articles related to Aircraft on Wikipedia. This project also aims to standardize the structure and display of information in these articles. It is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of Wikipedians.

The scope of the project includes (but is not limited to):

• Aircraft types (e.g., Airbus A300, F-15 Eagle)
  • Lists of aircraft types (e.g., List of aircraft, List of civil aircraft)
    • Individual famous aircraft (e.g., Spirit of St. Louis)
• Aircraft engine technology (e.g., jet engine)
  • Aircraft engines (e.g., Pratt & Whitney Wasp)

Articles on aircraft types form the bulk of the project and see the greatest activity. Newly contributed articles can be found listed at Wikipedia:New articles (Aircraft). Contributions older than the previous month can be found here.

[edit] How you can help

If you would like to participate, add yourself to the Participants page.

You can help out by editing an aircraft-related article, helping to complete a task on our to-do list, or contributing to the discussion on one of our related talk pages. If you would like some suggestions, just ask on the talk page.

If you find an aircraft-related article that hasn't been updated to the specifications standards mandated by the Project you can add {{Aero-table}}. If the aircraft page has no specifications add {{aero-specs}}.

If you find an aircraft-related article without our template, please place our template {{WPAVIATION}} at the top of the talk page. You can also add this to the talk page of images, categories, and templates.

If you find an aircraft-related stub article that has not yet been marked as a stub, add {{Aero-stub}} to the bottom of the article. It will automatically be included in the aircraft stubs category, where you can find plenty of stub articles to expand.

Also, please feel free to add new articles to the page Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft/Articles, so we can monitor changes to them with the recent changes function.

[edit] Awards

Wikiwings are the official award of WikiProject Aircraft. Styled after military flight wings, they are awarded to anyone who makes extensive, high-quality, or generally valued contributions to the area of aviation on wikipedia. They can be awarded by anyone, to anyone, in a barnstar-like fashion.

The wikiwings award is modelled after Rlandmann's wikiwings award, and were officially adopted by WikiProject Aircraft on October 29, 2005.

[edit] Project status

At the end of 2005, a total of around 2,100 articles on aircraft types existed. The creation of new aircraft articles has slowed to an average of around 35 articles per month. For comparison, Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation (ISBN 0517103168) claims to have "over 5,000 entries".

[edit] Other WikiProject details

[edit] Parentage

The parent of this WikiProject is the Aviation WikiProject.

[edit] Descendant Wikiprojects

No descendant WikiProjects have been defined.

[edit] Task forces

• Rotorcraft task force

[edit] Related Wikiprojects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Airlines
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Airports
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Gliding
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/British military history task force
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Ships
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Military aviation task force

[edit] Recognized content

• Aviation Showcase

[edit] Did you know (DYK)s

• Cessna 165 3 December 2006
• Pitot-static system - 11 January 2007
• Fokker Spin - 15 January 2007
• Peter Masak - 16 January 2007
• Short Sturgeon - 18 January 2007
• Sukhoi Su-12 - 21 January 2007
• Fokker F.VIII - 21 January 2007
• Blohm und Voss Bv 144 - 22 January 2007
• Abkhazian Air Force - 22 January 2007
• Valmet Tuuli - 23 January 2007
• Lockheed XF-104 - 19 October 2007
• Lockheed NF-104A - 1 November 2007
• Pterodactyl Ascender - 11 November 2007
• Breguet 730 - 13 January 2008
• Schweizer SGP 1-1 - 09 May 2008

[edit] Former recognized content

[edit] Former featured articles

• Concorde
• Convair B-36
• F-35 Lightning II
• Jet engine

[edit] Former good articles