General aviation

General aviation

The science and practice of artificial flight which involves the design, development, production, operation of aircraft or heavier-than-air machines.

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General aviation

A pejorative name for contrails - the lines left in the sky by aeroplanes. Contrail is a combination of the words 'condensation' and 'trail', and is so named because of the way that they are formed. ...

stall

Aviation; General aviation

A flight condition wherein the airflow separates from the airfoil surface, or the airflow around the airfoil becomes turbulent, causing the airfoil to lose lift. It is usually a result of ...

rudder

Aviation; General aviation

The primary control surface in yaw (sideways movement), it is usually hinged and attached to the trailing edge of the vertical stabilizer on an aircraft’s tail.

elevator

Aviation; General aviation

A movable horizontal airfoil, usually attached to the horizontal stabilizer on the tail, that is used to control pitch. It usually changes the attitude of the nose, making it move up and down.

runway

Aviation; General aviation

Paved surface, usually rectangular and of defined extent, available and suitable for aeroplane takeoff and landing.

PIREP

Aviation; General aviation

The aviation communications code word and commonly used contraction for pilot report.

inertial subrange

Aviation; General aviation

An intermediate range of turbulent scales or wavelengths that is smaller than the energy-containing eddies but larger than viscous eddies. In the inertial subrange, the net energy coming from the ...