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159 relations: A658 road, ACN-PCN method, Aerodrome, Aeroflot Flight 3352, Aeronautical chart, Air France Flight 358, Air India Express Flight 812, Air traffic control, Aircraft, Airfield rubber removal, Airport apron, Airspeed, Anchorage, Alaska, Approach lighting system, Aquaplaning, Asiana Airlines Flight 214, Asphalt concrete, Aviation, Aviation safety, Azimuth, Bearing capacity, Bitumen, Boeing 747, Breguet Aviation, Brick, British Airways Flight 38, Buoy, Cairns Army Airfield, California bearing ratio, Chevron (insignia), Civil aviation, Civil aviation authority, Clay, Clermont-Ferrand, Coefficient, Colombia, Compass rose, Concrete, Coral, Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, Daniel K. Inouye International Airport, Deca-, Degree (angle), Density, Density altitude, Denver International Airport, Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Displaced threshold, Distance, Dobbins Air Reserve Base, ... Expand index (109 more) »
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A658 road
The A658 is a road in Yorkshire, UK.
ACN-PCN method
The Aircraft Classification Number (ACN) – Pavement Classification Number (PCN) method is a standardized international airport pavement rating system promulgated by the ICAO in 1981. Runway and ACN-PCN method are airport infrastructure.
Aerodrome
An aerodrome is a location from which aircraft flight operations take place, regardless of whether they involve air cargo, passengers, or neither, and regardless of whether it is for public or private use.
Aeroflot Flight 3352
Aeroflot Flight 3352 was a regularly scheduled Aeroflot flight from Krasnodar to Novosibirsk, with an intermediate landing in Omsk.
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Aeronautical chart
An aeronautical chart is a map designed to assist in the navigation of aircraft, much as nautical charts do for watercraft, or a roadmap does for drivers.
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Air France Flight 358
Air France Flight 358 was a regularly scheduled international flight from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, France, to Toronto Pearson International Airport in Ontario, Canada.
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Air India Express Flight 812
Air India Express Flight 812 was a scheduled international flight from Dubai International Airport, Dubai to Mangalore International Airport, Mangalore.
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Air traffic control
Air traffic control (ATC) is a service provided by ground-based air traffic controllers (people) who direct aircraft on the ground and through a given section of controlled airspace, and can provide advisory services to aircraft in non-controlled airspace. Runway and air traffic control are airport infrastructure.
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Aircraft
An aircraft (aircraft) is a vehicle that is able to fly by gaining support from the air.
Airfield rubber removal
Airfield rubber removal, also known as runway rubber removal, is the use of high pressure water, abrasives, chemicals and other mechanical means to remove the rubber from tires that builds up on airport runways. Runway and Airfield rubber removal are airport infrastructure.
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Airport apron
The airport apron, apron, flight line, or ramp is the area of an airport where aircraft are parked, unloaded or loaded, refueled, boarded, or maintained. Runway and airport apron are airport infrastructure.
Airspeed
In aviation, airspeed is the speed of an aircraft relative to the air it is flying through (which itself is usually moving relative to the ground due to wind).
Anchorage, Alaska
Anchorage, officially the Municipality of Anchorage, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Alaska.
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Approach lighting system
An approach lighting system (ALS) is a lighting system installed on the approach end of an airport runway and consisting of a series of lightbars, strobe lights, or a combination of the two that extends outward from the runway end.
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Aquaplaning
Aquaplaning or hydroplaning by the tires of a road vehicle, aircraft or other wheeled vehicle occurs when a layer of water builds between the wheels of the vehicle and the road surface, leading to a loss of traction that prevents the vehicle from responding to control inputs.
Asiana Airlines Flight 214
Asiana Airlines Flight 214 was a scheduled transpacific passenger flight originating from Incheon International Airport near Seoul, South Korea.
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Asphalt concrete
Asphalt concrete (commonly called asphalt, blacktop, or pavement in North America, and tarmac or bitumen macadam in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland) is a composite material commonly used to surface roads, parking lots, airports, and the core of embankment dams.
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Aviation
Aviation includes the activities surrounding mechanical flight and the aircraft industry.
Aviation safety
Aviation safety is the study and practice of managing risks in aviation.
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Azimuth
An azimuth (from the directions) is the horizontal angle from a cardinal direction, most commonly north, in a local or observer-centric spherical coordinate system.
Bearing capacity
In geotechnical engineering, bearing capacity is the capacity of soil to support the loads applied to the ground.
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Bitumen
Bitumen is an immensely viscous constituent of petroleum.
Boeing 747
The Boeing 747 is a long-range wide-body airliner designed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes in the United States between 1968 and 2023.
Breguet Aviation
The Société anonyme des ateliers d'aviation Louis Breguet, also known as Breguet Aviation, was a French aircraft manufacturer.
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Brick
A brick is a type of construction material used to build walls, pavements and other elements in masonry construction.
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British Airways Flight 38
British Airways Flight 38 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, China, to London Heathrow Airport in London, United Kingdom, an trip.
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Buoy
A buoy is a floating device that can have many purposes.
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Cairns Army Airfield
Cairns Army Airfield is a military airport forming a part of Fort Novosel, in Dale County, Alabama, USA, and is owned by the United States Army.
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California bearing ratio
The California Bearing Ratio (CBR) is a measure of the strength of the subgrade of a road or other paved area, and of the materials used in its construction.
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Chevron (insignia)
A chevron (also spelled cheveron, especially in older documents) is a V-shaped mark or symbol, often inverted.
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Civil aviation
Civil aviation is one of two major categories of flying, representing all non-military and non-state aviation, both private and commercial.
Civil aviation authority
A civil aviation authority (CAA) is a national or supranational statutory authority that oversees the regulation of civil aviation, including the maintenance of an aircraft register.
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Clay
Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolinite, Al2Si2O5(OH)4).
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Clermont-Ferrand
Clermont-Ferrand is a city and commune of France, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, with a population of 147,284 (2020).
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Coefficient
In mathematics, a coefficient is a multiplicative factor involved in some term of a polynomial, a series, or an expression.
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.
Compass rose
A compass rose, sometimes called a wind rose, rose of the winds or compass star, is a figure on a compass, map, nautical chart, or monument used to display the orientation of the cardinal directions (north, east, south, and west) and their intermediate points.
Concrete
Concrete is a composite material composed of aggregate bonded together with a fluid cement that cures to a solid over time.
Coral
Corals are colonial marine invertebrates within the class Anthozoa of the phylum Cnidaria.
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Dallas Fort Worth International Airport
Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport is the primary international airport serving the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex and the North Texas region, in the U.S. state of Texas.
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Daniel K. Inouye International Airport
Daniel K. Inouye International Airport, also known as Honolulu International Airport, is the main and largest airport in Hawaii.
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Deca-
Deca- (and dec-), sometimes deka-, is a common English-language numeral prefix derived from the Late Latin ("(set of) ten"), from Ancient Greek, from (déka, "ten").
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Degree (angle)
A degree (in full, a degree of arc, arc degree, or arcdegree), usually denoted by ° (the degree symbol), is a measurement of a plane angle in which one full rotation is 360 degrees.
Density
Density (volumetric mass density or specific mass) is a substance's mass per unit of volume.
Density altitude
The density altitude is the altitude relative to standard atmospheric conditions at which the air density would be equal to the indicated air density at the place of observation.
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Denver International Airport
Denver International Airport, locally known as DIA, is an international airport in the Western United States, primarily serving metropolitan Denver, Colorado, as well as the greater Front Range Urban Corridor.
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Detroit Metropolitan Airport
Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport is the primary international airport serving Detroit and its surrounding metropolitan area in Michigan, United States.
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Displaced threshold
A displaced threshold or DTHR is a runway threshold located at a point other than the physical beginning or end of the runway. Runway and displaced threshold are airport infrastructure.
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Distance
Distance is a numerical or occasionally qualitative measurement of how far apart objects, points, people, or ideas are.
Dobbins Air Reserve Base
Dobbins Air Reserve Base or Dobbins ARB is a United States Air Force reserve air base located in Marietta, Georgia, a suburb about northwest of Atlanta.
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Dowel
A dowel is a cylindrical shape made of wood, plastic, or metal.
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Duke Field
Duke Field, also known as Eglin AFB Auxiliary Field #3, is a military airport located three miles (5 km) south of the central business district of Crestview, in Okaloosa County, Florida, United States.
East Asia
East Asia is a geographical and cultural region of Asia including the countries of China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan.
Ecuador
Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west.
Edwards Air Force Base
Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) is a United States Air Force installation in California.
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Engineered materials arrestor system
An engineered materials arrestor system, engineered materials arresting system (EMAS), or arrester bed is a bed of engineered materials built at the end of a runway to reduce the severity of the consequences of a runway excursion. Runway and engineered materials arrestor system are airport infrastructure.
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Expansion joint
A expansion joint, or movement joint, is an assembly designed to hold parts together while safely absorbing temperature-induced expansion and contraction of building materials.
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Federal Aviation Administration
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is a U.S. federal government agency within the U.S. Department of Transportation which regulates civil aviation in the United States and surrounding international waters.
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Federal Aviation Regulations
The Federal Aviation Regulations (FARs) are rules prescribed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) governing all aviation activities in the United States.
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Fixed-wing aircraft
A fixed-wing aircraft is a heavier-than-air flying machine, such as an airplane, which is capable of flight using aerodynamic lift.
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Flight Safety Foundation
The Flight Safety Foundation (FSF) is a non-profit, international organization concerning research, education, advocacy, and communications in the field of aviation safety.
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Flight service station
A flight service station (FSS) is an air traffic facility that provides information and services to aircraft pilots before, during, and after flights, but unlike air traffic control (ATC), is not responsible for giving instructions or clearances or providing separation.
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Flight simulator
A flight simulator is a device that artificially re-creates aircraft flight and the environment in which it flies, for pilot training, design, or other purposes.
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France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
Frost heaving
Frost heaving (or a frost heave) is an upwards swelling of soil during freezing conditions caused by an increasing presence of ice as it grows towards the surface, upwards from the depth in the soil where freezing temperatures have penetrated into the soil (the freezing front or freezing boundary).
General aviation
General aviation (GA) is defined by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) as all civil aviation aircraft operations except for commercial air transport or aerial work, which is defined as specialized aviation services for other purposes.
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Gibraltar International Airport
Gibraltar International Airport, previously known as North Front Airport, is the civilian airport that serves the British overseas territory of Gibraltar.
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Glider (aircraft)
A glider is a fixed-wing aircraft that is supported in flight by the dynamic reaction of the air against its lifting surfaces, and whose free flight does not depend on an engine.
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Grade (slope)
The grade (US) or gradient (UK) (also called stepth, slope, incline, mainfall, pitch or rise) of a physical feature, landform or constructed line refers to the tangent of the angle of that surface to the horizontal.
Gravel
Gravel is a loose aggregation of rock fragments.
Ground speed
Ground speed is the horizontal speed of an aircraft relative to the Earth’s surface.
Halifax Stanfield International Airport
Halifax Stanfield International Airport is a Canadian airport in Goffs, Nova Scotia, a rural community of the Halifax Regional Municipality.
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Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport
Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport is the primary international airport serving Atlanta and its surrounding metropolitan area, in the U.S. state of Georgia.
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Heading (navigation)
In navigation, the heading of a vessel or aircraft is the compass direction in which the craft's bow or nose is pointed.
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Helipad
A helipad is a landing area or platform for helicopters and powered lift aircraft.
Highway strip
A highway strip, road runway or road base is a section of a highway, motorway or other form of public road that is specially built to act as a runway for (mostly) military aircraft and to serve as an auxiliary military air base.
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.
Honolulu
Honolulu is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Hawaii, which is in the Pacific Ocean.
Hooke's law
In physics, Hooke's law is an empirical law which states that the force needed to extend or compress a spring by some distance scales linearly with respect to that distance—that is, where is a constant factor characteristic of the spring (i.e., its stiffness), and is small compared to the total possible deformation of the spring.
Ice
Ice is water that is frozen into a solid state, typically forming at or below temperatures of 0 °C, 32 °F, or 273.15 K. It occurs naturally on Earth, on other planets, in Oort cloud objects, and as interstellar ice.
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Instrument landing system
In aviation, the instrument landing system (ILS) is a precision radio navigation system that provides short-range guidance to aircraft to allow them to approach a runway at night or in bad weather.
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International airport
An international airport is an airport with customs and border control facilities enabling passengers to travel between countries around the world.
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International Civil Aviation Organization
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that coordinates the principles and techniques of international air navigation, and fosters the planning and development of international air transport to ensure safe and orderly growth.
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Jet airliner
A jet airliner or jetliner is an airliner powered by jet engines (passenger jet aircraft).
Jet blast
Jet blast is the phenomenon of rapid air movement produced by the jet engines of aircraft, particularly on or before takeoff.
Joint Aviation Requirements
The Joint Aviation Requirements (JAR) were a set of common comprehensive and detailed aviation requirement issued by the Joint Aviation Authorities, intended to minimise Type Certification problems on joint ventures, and also to facilitate the export and import of aviation products.
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Ketchikan Harbor Seaplane Base
Ketchikan Harbor Seaplane Base is a privately owned, public use seaplane base located at the harbor of Ketchikan, a city in the Ketchikan Gateway Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska.
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Lake Hood Seaplane Base
Lake Hood Seaplane Base is a state-owned seaplane base located southwest of the central business district of Anchorage in the U.S. state of Alaska.
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Land and hold short operations
Land and Hold Short Operations (LAHSO, pronounced "La-So") is an air traffic control procedure for aircraft landing and holding short of an intersecting runway or point on a runway, to balance airport capacity and system efficiency with safety.
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Landing
Landing is the last part of a flight, where a flying animal, aircraft, or spacecraft returns to the ground.
Landing gear
Landing gear is the undercarriage of an aircraft or spacecraft that is used for taxiing, takeoff or landing.
Laterite
Laterite is a soil type rich in iron and aluminium and is commonly considered to have formed in hot and wet tropical areas.
Leeds Bradford Airport
Leeds Bradford Airport is located in Yeadon, in the City of Leeds Metropolitan District in West Yorkshire, England, about northwest of Leeds city centre, and about northeast from Bradford city centre.
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Linate Airport disaster
The Linate Airport disaster occurred in Italy at Linate Airport in Milan on the morning of Monday, 8 October 2001.
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Lists of airports
An airport is an aerodrome with facilities for flights to take off and land.
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London Stansted Airport
London Stansted Airport is the tertiary international airport serving London, the capital of England and the United Kingdom.
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Los Angeles International Airport
Los Angeles International Airport is the primary international airport serving Los Angeles and its surrounding metropolitan area, in the U.S. state of California.
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Luleå Airport
Luleå Airport is located about 7 km (4.3 mi) south-southeast of Luleå, Sweden, near the village of Kallax.
Macadam
Macadam is a type of road construction pioneered by Scottish engineer John Loudon McAdam around 1820, in which crushed stone is placed in shallow, convex layers and compacted thoroughly.
Macau
Macau or Macao is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.
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Magnetic declination
Magnetic declination (also called magnetic variation) is the angle between magnetic north and true north at a particular location on the Earth's surface.
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Marston Mat
Marston Mat, more properly called pierced (or perforated) steel planking (PSP), is standardized, perforated steel matting material developed by the United States at the Waterways Experiment Station shortly before World War II, primarily for the rapid construction of temporary runways and landing strips (also misspelled as Marsden matting). Runway and Marston Mat are airport engineering.
Michelin
Michelin, in full i ("General Company of the Michelin Enterprises P.L.S."), is a French multinational tyre manufacturing company based in Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes région of France.
Non-towered airport
In aviation, a non-towered airport is an airport without a control tower, or air traffic control (ATC) unit.
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O'Hare International Airport
Chicago O'Hare International Airport is a major international airport serving Chicago, Illinois, United States, located on the city's Northwest Side, approximately northwest of the Loop business district.
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Orlando International Airport
Orlando International Airport is the primary international airport located southeast of Downtown Orlando, Florida.
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Overpass
An overpass, called an overbridge or flyover (for a road only) in the United Kingdom and some other Commonwealth countries, is a bridge, road, railway or similar structure that is over another road or railway.
Peru
Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a megadiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west to the peaks of the Andes mountains extending from the north to the southeast of the country to the tropical Amazon basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon River.
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Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport
Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport is a civil–military public international airport east of downtown Phoenix, in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States.
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Pilot-controlled lighting
Pilot-controlled lighting (PCL), also known as aircraft radio control of aerodrome lighting (ARCAL) or pilot-activated lighting (PAL), is a system that allows aircraft pilots to control the lighting of an airport or airfield's approach lights, runway edge lights, and taxiways via radio.
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Pituffik Space Base
Pituffik Space Base, formerly Thule Air Base, is the United States Space Force's northernmost base, and the northernmost installation of the U.S. Armed Forces, located north of the Arctic Circle and from the North Pole on the northwest coast of Greenland.
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Poaceae
Poaceae, also called Gramineae, is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses.
Portland cement
Portland cement is the most common type of cement in general use around the world as a basic ingredient of concrete, mortar, stucco, and non-specialty grout.
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Precision approach path indicator
A precision approach path indicator (PAPI) is a system of lights on the side of an airport runway threshold that provides visual descent guidance information during final approach.
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Pressure washing
Pressure washing or power washing is the use of high-pressure water spray to remove loose paint, mold, grime, dust, mud, and dirt from surfaces and objects such as buildings, vehicles and concrete surfaces.
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Prevailing winds
In meteorology, prevailing wind in a region of the Earth's surface is a surface wind that blows predominantly from a particular direction.
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Rejected takeoff
In aviation, a rejected takeoff (RTO) or aborted takeoff is the situation in which the pilot decides to abort the takeoff of an airplane after initiating the takeoff roll but before the airplane leaves the ground.
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Roll way
A roll way or running pad is the pad placed on a concrete slab or on the ties on the outside of the conventional track along both running rails of a rubber-tyred metro or along the unconventional track of a tram.
Rotorcraft
A rotorcraft or rotary-wing aircraft is a heavier-than-air aircraft with rotary wings or rotor blades, which generate lift by rotating around a vertical mast.
Runway edge lights
Runway edge lighting are used to outline the edges of runways during periods of darkness or restricted visibility conditions.
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Runway end identifier lights
Runway end identifier lights (REIL) (ICAO identifies these as Runway Threshold Identification Lights) are installed at many airports to provide rapid and positive identification of the approach end of a particular runway.
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Runway incursion
A runway incursion is an aviation incident involving improper positioning of vehicles or people on any airport runway or its protected area.
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Runway safety area
A runway safety area (RSA) or runway end safety area (RESA, if at the end of the runway) is defined as "the surface surrounding the runway prepared or suitable for reducing the risk of damage to airplanes in the event of an undershoot, overshoot, or excursion from the runway." Past standards called for the RSA to extend only 60m (200 feet) from the ends of the runway.
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Runway status lights
Runway Status Lights (RWSL) are a visual alerting system installed in some airport taxiways and runways for the purpose of collision-avoidance.
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Runway visual range
In aviation, the runway visual range (RVR) is the distance over which a pilot of an aircraft on the centreline of the runway can see the runway surface markings delineating the runway or the lights delineating the runway or identifying its centre line.
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Sand
Sand is a granular material composed of finely divided mineral particles.
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Santa Catalina Island (California)
Santa Catalina Island (Tongva: Pimuu'nga or Pimu; Spanish: Isla Santa Catalina; often shortened to Catalina Island or Catalina) is a rocky island, part of the Channel Islands (California), off the coast of Southern California in the Gulf of Santa Catalina.
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Sea level
Mean sea level (MSL, often shortened to sea level) is an average surface level of one or more among Earth's coastal bodies of water from which heights such as elevation may be measured.
Seaplane
A seaplane is a powered fixed-wing aircraft capable of taking off and landing (alighting) on water.
Shetland
Shetland, also called the Shetland Islands, is an archipelago in Scotland lying between Orkney, the Faroe Islands, and Norway.
Singapore Airlines Flight 006
Singapore Airlines Flight 006 was a scheduled passenger flight from Singapore Changi Airport to Los Angeles International Airport via Chiang Kai-shek International Airport (now known as Taoyuan International Airport) near Taipei, Taiwan.
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Snow
Snow comprises individual ice crystals that grow while suspended in the atmosphere—usually within clouds—and then fall, accumulating on the ground where they undergo further changes.
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Sod
Sod is the upper layer of turf that is harvested for transplanting.
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Sodium chloride
Sodium chloride, commonly known as edible salt, is an ionic compound with the chemical formula NaCl, representing a 1:1 ratio of sodium and chlorine ions.
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Soil
Soil, also commonly referred to as earth or dirt, is a mixture of organic matter, minerals, gases, liquids, and organisms that together support the life of plants and soil organisms.
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Sommerfeld tracking
Sommerfeld tracking, named after German expatriate engineer, Kurt Joachim Sommerfeld,Smith, David J. "Britain's Military airfields 1939-45" then living in Cambridge, England, it was a lightweight wire mesh type of prefabricated airfield surface. Runway and Sommerfeld tracking are airport engineering.
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Space Shuttle
The Space Shuttle is a retired, partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program.
Space Shuttle Atlantis
Space Shuttle Atlantis (Orbiter Vehicle designation: OV‑104) is a retired Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle which belongs to NASA, the spaceflight and space exploration agency of the United States.
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STOL
A short takeoff and landing (STOL) aircraft is a conventional fixed-wing aircraft that has short runway requirements for takeoff and landing.
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Strobe light
A strobe light or stroboscopic lamp, commonly called a strobe, is a device used to produce regular flashes of light.
Sumburgh Airport
Sumburgh Airport is the main airport serving Shetland in Scotland.
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Tabletop runway
A tabletop runway is a runway that is located on the top of a plateau or hill with one or both ends adjacent to a steep precipice which drops into a deep gorge. Runway and tabletop runway are airport infrastructure.
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Takeoff
Takeoff is the phase of flight in which an aerospace vehicle leaves the ground and becomes airborne.
TAM Airlines Flight 3054
TAM Airlines Flight 3054 (JJ3054/TAM3054) was a regularly scheduled domestic passenger flight operated by TAM Airlines from Porto Alegre to São Paulo, Brazil.
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Tarmacadam
Tarmacadam is a concrete road surfacing material made by combining tar and macadam (crushed stone and sand), patented by Welsh inventor Edgar Purnell Hooley in 1902.
Taxiway
A taxiway is a path for aircraft at an airport connecting runways with aprons, hangars, terminals and other facilities. Runway and taxiway are airport infrastructure.
Transport Canada
Transport Canada (Transports Canada) is the department within the Government of Canada responsible for developing regulations, policies and services of road, rail, marine and air transportation in Canada.
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True north
True north (also called geodetic north or geographic north) is the direction along Earth's surface towards the place where the imaginary rotational axis of the Earth intersects the surface of the Earth.
Ultralight aviation
Ultralight aviation (called microlight aviation in some countries) is the flying of lightweight, 1- or 2-seat fixed-wing aircraft.
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United States Armed Forces
The United States Armed Forces are the military forces of the United States.
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Visual approach slope indicator
The visual approach slope indicator (VASI) is a system of lights on the side of an airport runway threshold that provides visual descent guidance information during final approach.
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Water
Water is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula.
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Weather
Weather is the state of the atmosphere, describing for example the degree to which it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy.
Western Airlines Flight 2605
Western Airlines Flight 2605, nicknamed the "Night Owl", was an international scheduled passenger flight from Los Angeles, California, to Mexico City, Mexico.
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Wide-body aircraft
Emirates A wide-body aircraft, also known as a twin-aisle aircraft and in the largest cases as a jumbo jet, is an airliner with a fuselage wide enough to accommodate two passenger aisles with seven or more seats abreast.
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Wind direction
Wind direction is generally reported by the direction from which the wind originates.
Wind rose
A wind rose is a graphic tool used by meteorologists to give a succinct view of how wind speed and direction are typically distributed at a particular location.
Windsock
A windsock (a wind cone or wind sleeve) is a conical textile tube that resembles a giant sock. Runway and windsock are airport infrastructure.
Wright brothers
The Wright brothers, Orville Wright (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur Wright (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912), were American aviation pioneers generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful airplane.
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See also
Airport engineering
References
Also known as Accelerate Stop Distance Available, Active Runway, Airplane Landing Field, Airport runway, Blast Pad, Blast Pads, Grass airstrip, Land and Hold Short Lights, Landing Distance Available, Landing field length, Landing filed length, Landing strip, Landing strips, Non-Precision Instrument Runway, Non-Precision Instrument Runways, Parallel runway, Precision Instrument Runway, Precision instrument runways, RWY, Relocated runway thresholds, Runway Centerline Light System, Runway Centerline Lighting System, Runway Strip, Runway designation, Runway end lights, Runway light, Runway lighting, Runway markings, Runway naming, Runway numbering, Runways, Stopway, TDZL, TODA, Takeoff Distance Available, Takeoff Run Available, Taxiway Centerline Lead-Off Lights, Taxiway Centerline Lead-On Lights, Touchdown Zone Lights, Visual Runway, Visual Runways.