Noun

Singular aviation

Plural usually uncountable; plural aviations

aviation (usually uncountable; plural aviations)

1. The art or science of flying.

Derived terms

• aviation accident
• aviation incident

French

Noun

aviation

1. aviation

Aviation is the activity involving man-made air-borne flying devices (aircraft), including the people, organizations, and regulatory bodies involved with them.

Aviation refers to flying using aircraft, machines designed by humans for atmospheric flight. More generally, the term also describes the activities, industries, and regulatory bodies associated with aircraft.

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• When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
  • Leonardo da Vinci

• No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
  • William Blake

• Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.
  • Neil Armstrong

• The way I see it, you can either work for a living or you can fly airplanes. Me, I'd rather fly.
  • Len Morgan

• Pilots are a rare kind of human. They leave the ordinary surface of the word, to purify their soul in the sky, and they come down to earth, only after receiving the communion of the infinite.
  • José Maria Velasco Ibarra, President of Ecuador.

• If God had intended us to fly, He would have given us wings.
  • Anonymous proverb. Note that many humorous variations have been made from this, replacing the second half of the sentence with things such as, "He would have given us more money" or "He would have bought us the tickets" or in the quixotic commentery of Michael Flanders, "he would never have given us railways".

• If God had intended us to fly, he wouldn't have invented Spanish air traffic control.
  • Dave Lister, Red Dwarf

• Any landing that you can walk away from is a good one!
  • Anonymous

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