User:Cagliost
Aviation articles
[edit]Articles I have done substantial work on
[edit]- Pilot logbook
- P-factor
- Drag curve
- Parasitic drag
- Skin friction drag
- Drag (physics)
- Propeller (aeronautics)
- Variable-pitch propeller (aeronautics)
- Longitudinal stability
- Dissymmetry of lift
- Unequal rotor lift distribution
- Flapback
- Cruise (aeronautics)
- Pilot decision making
- Pilot licensing in the United Kingdom
- Runway incursion
- Aircraft approach category
- Wake turbulence category
- Runway Awareness and Advisory System
- Rejected takeoff
- Wind shear
- Slingsby T67 Firefly
- List of airports by ICAO code: E
- Polokwane International Airport
- Elstree Aerodrome
Articles I created
[edit]- UPRT
- Lock number
- C. N. H. Lock (featured in Did You Know)
- Coning (aerodynamics)
- David Davies (test pilot) (featured in Did You Know)
- List of aviation headset connectors
- List of aviation mnemonics
- FREDA
- Aircraft category
- Aircraft performance
- Category:Aircraft performance
- EASA pilot licensing
- Single pilot operations
- Category:Aircraft automation
- Tankering
- Genevation GenPro
- Ekolot KR-010 Elf
- Office of the Director of Civil Aviation
- Madivaru Airport
- Richard Peck (RAF officer) (featured in Did You Know)
- List of slowest fixed-wing aircraft
- Erich Trefftz
Minor contributions
[edit]- Safety culture
- V speeds
- Blade pitch
- Aircraft flight dynamics
- Precision approach path indicator
- Wing
- Wingtip device
- Kutta condition
- HASELL
- Standard rate turn
- Flight level
- Type rating
- Class rating
- Commercial pilot licence
- Flight training
- Integrated pilot training
- Pilot licensing and certification
- Pilot in command
- Federal Aviation Regulations
- Civil aviation authority
- Light aircraft pilot licence
- Power-off accuracy approach
- View-limiting device
- BUMMMFITCHH
- Center of gravity of an aircraft
- Downwash
- Slipstream
- Stall (fluid dynamics)
- Aircraft dynamic modes
- Fuel economy in aircraft
- Heading indicator
- Pilot direction indicator
- Lubber line
- Rule of three (aeronautics)
- Piper PA-18 Super Cub
- List of airports by ICAO code: V
- List of airports in the Maldives
- Villa International Airport Maamigili
- Maavarulu Airport
- Laurence Clancy
- Maximum takeoff weight
- Zero-fuel weight
- Airborne wind shear detection and alert system
- Low-level windshear alert system
- Terminal Doppler Weather Radar
- Airfield traffic pattern
- Approach plate
- Wingtip vortices
- Wake turbulence
- Airbus A380
- Boeing 747
- Boeing 757
- Aviation psychology
- The International Journal of Aerospace Psychology
- Reims-Cessna F406 Caravan II
Articles that need more work
[edit]- Wave drag
- Phase lag (rotorcraft)
- Transverse flow effect
- Induced drag
- Relaxed stability
- Flight management system
- Medical certifications for pilots
- SHELL model
Verifiability and truth
[edit]Wikipedia has a policy of Wikipedia:Verifiability. Claims should be sourced so readers can verify them independently. Essay Wikipedia:Verifiability, not truth explains this further. I disagree; I think claims should be verifiable and true. Editors should not include information they know or strongly believe to be false, even if they can find normally-reliable sources stating it to be true. Sources with a history of reliability can make mistakes.
Wikipedia has a policy to avoid primary sources in biographical articles (WP:BLPPRIMARY). However, in the case of Rachel Weisz's birthday, there were conflicting secondary sources for her birthdate. It was clear from primary sources what her birthday really was, and so primary sources were used to dismiss the incorrect secondary sources and support the correct secondary sources.
In the case of James Mullinger, there was an incorrect source giving his high-school, and no source giving the correct school. Primary sources were used to delete the false claim, though the correct information could not be added because no correct secondary sources existed.
In the case of Ronnie Hazlehurst, someone edited Wikipedia to state he wrote the lyrics to Reach by S Club 7. This claim was reported by the BBC, The Times and The Guardian. Some editors then tried to use these references in the article, despite saying they knew them to be false.