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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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Most Read This Week Tagged "Aviation"

The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
Falling
Drowning
Great Circle
Love in Plane Sight
Fly Girl: A Memoir
Worst Case Scenario
Come Fly with Me
The Defector (Apollo Murders, #2)
American Sky
The Uncharted Flight of Olivia West
Amelia's Shadow
Realm of Ice and Sky: Triumph, Tragedy, and History's Greatest Arctic Rescue
Arctic Storm Rising (Nick Flynn, #1)
Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am
Spitfires: The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger During World War II
Girls of Flight City
Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima, and the Surrender of Japan
The Eagle's Claw
The Wingmen: The Unlikely, Unusual, Unbreakable Friendship Between John Glenn and Ted Williams
Razor 03: A Night Stalker’s Wars
His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine
The Great Stewardess Rebellion: How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet
Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing
Operation Pedestal: The Fleet That Battled to Malta, 1942 – A Definitive WWII History of the Royal Navy Convoy and Mediterranean Siege
The Impossible Factory: The Remarkable True Story of Kelly Johnson and the Lockheed Skunk Works, America's Innovation Machine
Imagine a City: A Pilot's Journey Across the Urban World
The Burning Blue: The Untold Story of Christa McAuliffe and NASA's Challenger Disaster
The Disappearing Act: The Impossible Case of MH370
Countdown to Midnight (Nick Flynn #2)
Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space
The Sailing of the Intrepid: The Incredible Wartime Voyage of the Navy’s Iconic Aircraft Carrier―A World War II Military History Book
A Pair of Wings
What the Taliban Told Me
Brotherhood of the Flying Coffin: The Glider Pilots of World War II
We Own the Sky
Stateless
The Swallows' Flight
Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb
Damn Lucky: One Man's Courage During the Bloodiest Military Campaign in Aviation History
Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars: The Story of the First American Woman to Command a Space Mission
The Last Hawk
Open Skies: My Life as Afghanistan's First Female Pilot
Lightning Down: A World War II Story of Survival
The Big Hop: The First Non-stop Flight Across the Atlantic Ocean and Into the Future
Into Unknown Skies: An Unlikely Team, a Daring Race, and the First Flight Around the World
The Secret Life of Flying
The Final Flight
Mosquito: The RAF's Legendary Wooden Wonder and its Most Extraordinary Mission
The Hijacking of American Flight 119: How D.B. Cooper Inspired a Skyjacking Craze and the FBI's Battle to Stop It
Warplane: How the Military Reformers Birthed the A-10 Warthog
UFO: The Inside Story of the U.S. Government's Search for Alien Life Here―and Out There
Barnstormers
Flying in the Face of Fear: A Fighter Pilot's Lessons on Leading with Courage
Cinderella Boys: The Forgotten RAF Force that Won the Battle of the Atlantic
The Red Arrows: The Story of Britain’s Iconic Display Team
The Great Air Race: Glory, Tragedy, and the Dawn of American Aviation
Going Downtown: The US Air Force over Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, 1961–75
Flying Camelot: The F-15, the F-16, and the Weaponization of Fighter Pilot Nostalgia
Wingwalkers
To Save An Army: The Stalingrad Airlift
Shatter the Sky: What Going to the Stratosphere Taught Me About Self-worth, Sacrifice, and Discipline
The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club: Naval Aviation in the Vietnam War
N-4 Down: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia
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
Test Gods: Virgin Galactic and the Making of a Modern Astronaut
The Fearless Flights of Hazel Ying Lee
Sprouting Wings: The True Story of James Herman Banning, the First African American Pilot to Fly Across the United States
Above and Beyond: Secrets of a Private Flight Attendant
Soaring in Style
Span of Control: What to Do When You're Under Pressure, Overwhelmed, and Ready to Get What You Really Want
The Silver Waterfall: How America Won the War in the Pacific at Midway
The Saigon Guns: A True Story of Aerial Combat in the Fall of 1972

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Quotes Tagged “Aviation”

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“ Words matter. I don’t say ‘staff’ because my team isn’t background support—they are associates and core to the outcome. ”
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“ I don’t use the word ‘staff’—it limits the role. My team members are invested players in the bigger picture, not just task-doers. ”
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Videos Tagged “Aviation”

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Aviation and Spaceflight A group that is dedicated to Aviation and Spaceflight. From learning more about the actual techn…more
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The Air and Space Book Club We launched this club to dig deeper into books about aviation and space and discuss them with ot…more
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