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Aviation is the practical aspect or art of aeronautics, being the design, development, production, operation and use of aircraft, especially heavier than air aircraft. The word aviation was coined by French writer and former naval officer Gabriel La Landelle in 1863, from the verb avier (synonymous flying), itself derived from the Latin word avis ("bird") and the suffix -ation.

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The Wingmen: The Unlikely, Unusual, Unbreakable Friendship Between John Glenn and Ted Williams

Realm of Ice and Sky: Triumph, Tragedy, and History's Greatest Arctic Rescue

Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing

Lightning Down: A World War II Story of Survival

The Sailing of the Intrepid: The Incredible Wartime Voyage of the Navy’s Iconic Aircraft Carrier―A World War II Military History Book

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Open Skies: My Life as Afghanistan's First Female Pilot

The Great Air Race: Glory, Tragedy, and the Dawn of American Aviation

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Mosquito: The RAF's Legendary Wooden Wonder and its Most Extraordinary Mission

The Big Hop: The First Non-stop Flight Across the Atlantic Ocean and Into the Future

Operation Pedestal: The Fleet That Battled to Malta, 1942 – A Definitive WWII History of the Royal Navy Convoy and Mediterranean Siege

Into Unknown Skies: An Unlikely Team, a Daring Race, and the First Flight Around the World

His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine

The Disappearing Act: The Impossible Case of MH370

The Burning Blue: The Untold Story of Christa McAuliffe and NASA's Challenger Disaster

Going Downtown: The US Air Force over Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, 1961–75

Above and Beyond: Secrets of a Private Flight Attendant

Cinderella Boys: The Forgotten RAF Force that Won the Battle of the Atlantic

The Silver Waterfall: How America Won the War in the Pacific at Midway

The Red Arrows: The Story of Britain’s Iconic Display Team

Above the Reich: Deadly Dogfights, Blistering Bombing Raids, and Other War Stories from the Greatest American Air Heroes of World War II, in Their Own Words

Brotherhood of the Flying Coffin: The Glider Pilots of World War II

The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet

Flying Camelot: The F-15, the F-16, and the Weaponization of Fighter Pilot Nostalgia

The Hijacking of American Flight 119: How D.B. Cooper Inspired a Skyjacking Craze and the FBI's Battle to Stop It

Test Gods: Virgin Galactic and the Making of a Modern Astronaut

Sprouting Wings: The True Story of James Herman Banning, the First African American Pilot to Fly Across the United States

N-4 Down: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia

The Saigon Guns: A True Story of Aerial Combat in the Fall of 1972

Flying in the Face of Fear: A Fighter Pilot's Lessons on Leading with Courage

Imagine a City: A Pilot's Journey Across the Urban World

The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club: Naval Aviation in the Vietnam War

Span of Control: What to Do When You're Under Pressure, Overwhelmed, and Ready to Get What You Really Want

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Quotes Tagged “Aviation”

“ Flying blind is scary. But not as scary as dying grounded ”
― William P. Wood, Caliban’s Flight

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“ The socioeconomic impact of such a minor outburst is due to our technological development (air travel)—a century ago, such an eruption would have passed unnoticed. Technological development makes us more independent from nature. At the same time, at a different level, it makes us more dependent on nature’s whims. ”
― Slavoj Žižek

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