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Aeronautics. The study of all branches and activities of flying.
Aeroplane. A mechanically driven heavier-than-air flying machine which has fixed wings. An aerodyne with fixed wings) the terms includes landplanes, seaplanes and amphibians.

aeronautics - The study of flight and the science of designing, construction and operation of an aircraft.

AERONAUTICS - Concerned with flight within the Earth's atmosphere.

AEROPLANE (AIRPLANE)- Meaning in modern usage a heavier-than-air powered craft.

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NATO
North-Atlantic Treaty Organization ...

The Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938
Government decisions continued to prove as important to aviation's future as technological breakthroughs, and one of the most important aviation bills ever enacted by Congress was the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938.

NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Agency (USA)
NAT
North Atlantic Tracks.

In the United States, CAA stood for the Civil Aeronautics Administration, a fore-runner of today's FAA.
CAB: Civil Aeronautics Board.

Development began in 1914 when Ron Wanamaker, a wealthy American department store owner and supporter of aeronautics, hoped to fly across the Atlantic to compete for the prize of 10, ...

Some explanations in aeronautics require the use of such representation. A vector is a line where its length is proportional to a quantity with an arrow on one side to indicate the direction of such quantity.

When the Wright brothers conducted their exhaustive study of everything that had been done in aeronautics and aviation until their day, they paid particular attention to the work of two men: George Cayley and Alphonse Penaud.

Of course efforts have been made toward manfiight ever since the early sixteenth century, when Leonardo da Vinci invented the parachute and became the first patron of aeronautics; ...

In 1997 the FAA joined with representatives from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and from a broad cross-section of aviation organizations to form the Commercial Aviation Safety Team (CAST).

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) - The FAA is the Federal agency responsible for insuring the safe and efficient use of the nation's airspace, for fostering civil aeronautics and air commerce, ...

commercial space transportation, encouraging, researching and developing civil aeronautics, issuing, suspending, or revoking pilot certificates, regulating civil aviation to promote safety, ...

Encouraging and developing civil aeronautics, including new aviation technology;
Developing and operating a common system of air traffic control and navigation for both civil and military aircraft; ...

Their interest in gliding soon gave way to study of the serious scientific aspects of aeronautics. Because they found the existing data unsatisfactory, they abandoned it and did their own investigating.

GENERAL AVIATION Portion of civil aviation which encompasses all facets of aviation except air carriers holding a certificate of public convenience and necessity from the Civil Aeronautics Board and large aircraft commercial operators.

XLR-11 rocket engineOn 16 March 1945 the United States Army Air Forces' Flight Test Division and the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) (now NASA) contracted Bell Aircraft to build three XS-1 (for "Experimental, Supersonic", ...

National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, NASA's predecessor, 1915 to 1958.
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Over the next few years he devoted himself to to the study of aeronautics. In 1894 the German government rejected his proposals for a lighter-than-air flying machine.

At that time, the industry resembled a public utility, with a government agency, the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), determining the routes each airline flew and overseeing the prices they charged.

Applied to aeronautics in experimental wingforms, the Magnus Theory states that if air is directed against a smooth, revolving cylinder, whose circumferential speed is greater than that of the air current, ...

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