Aviation
Aviation or
Air transport refers to the activities surrounding mechanical
flight and the
aircraft industry.
Aircraft, include fixed wing (
airplane) and rotary wing (
helicopter) types, as well as lighter than air craft such as
balloons and
airships (also known as dirigibles.)\nAviation can be broadly divided into three areas:
Commercial Aviation
Commercial air transport is offered by airlines, companies such as American Airlines, British Airways, Lufthansa, Singapore Airlines or Cargolux, and Delta Airlines operating passenger or cargo flights.
General Aviation
\nGeneral Aviation is a term comprising all of aviation other than military and scheduled air transport (airlines), and includes privately owned aircraft, charter services, business owned aircraft, such as "bizjets," and many more types of working aircraft that are not, strictly speaking, for transportation. General aviation (GA), contrary to popular opinion, is not exclusively non-commercial. Although a large part of General Aviation consists of recreational flying, an equally large part involves important, commercial activities. These include flight training, shipping, surveying, agricultural application, air taxi, charter passenger service, corporate flying, emergency transport, police, firefighting and more. Ultralights are increasingly becoming a part of the highly regularised civil aviation system, and are often considered a part of general aviation.
Military Aviation
\nMilitary aviation includes combat activities as well as flight missions that support military activities.
\nSee also
\n* Aircraft\n* Airlines\n* Airport\n* Air safety\n* Air traffic control\n* Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast\n* Aviation system\n* Aviation history\n* Aviation noise\n* Avionics\n* Flight\n* Flight level\n* Flight simulator\n* Flying\n* Global Positioning System\n* Incidents in Aviation\n* Jet engine\n* Oshkosh Airshow\n* List of aviation topics\n* List of people who died in plane crashes\n* List of years in aviation\n* Propeller\n* Radar\n* Reciprocating engines\n* Runway\n* Santos Dumont\n* Taxiway\n* Wright brothers
