Airport


 
 
Airport

An airport is a facility where aircraft can take off and land. At the very minimum, an airport consists of one runway (or helipad), but other common components are hangars and terminal buildings. Apart from these, an airport may have a variety of facilities and infrastructure, including fixed base operator services, air traffic control, passenger facilities such as restaurants and lounges, and emergency services. A military airport is known as an airbase in North American terminology (other countries may use the term airfield or air station in current parlance or aerodrome in 1930s parlance). The terms airfield and airstrip may also be used to refer to a facility that has nothing more than a runway.

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Aircraft: An aircraft is any machine capable of atmospheric flight....

Take off: Take off is the phase of flight where an aircraft transitions from moving along the ground (taxiing) to flying in the air (see flight), usually from a runway. Take off is the opposite of landing....

Land: A LAND attack is a DoS (Denial of Service) attack that consists of sending a special poison spoofed packet to a computer, causing it to lock up. The security flaw was first discovered in 1997 by someone using the alias "m3lt", and has resurfaced many years later in operating systems such as Windows ...


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Introduction
Attributes
History and development
Airport designation and naming
Airport security
Airport operations
Environmental concerns
Military Airbase
Airports in Entertainment
See also
External links
 
FR: Aéroport


 

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Flight (2) - Runway (2) - Aircraft (2) - Landing (1) - DoS (1) - Atmospheric (1) - Taxiing (1) - Windows Server 2003 (1) - Windows XP (1) - Operating system (1) - Spoofed (1) - Packet (1) - Machine (1) - Hangar (1) - Terminal (1) -
 

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