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A few Wikipedians have gotten together to make some suggestions about how we might organize data in articles about aircraft. Again, these are only suggestions, things to give you focus and to get you going, and you should not feel obligated in the least to follow them.

However, if you don't know what to write or where to begin, following these guidelines may be helpful. Mainly, we just want you to write articles!

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Welcome to the Aircraft WikiProject

Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to suggest how aircraft-related articles can be put in to Wikipedia in an extensible and coherent manner. It also wishes to encourage participation in creating and expanding articles related to Aircraft on Wikipedia. This project also aims to standardize the structure and display of information in these articles. It is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of Wikipedians.

The scope of the project includes (but is not limited to):

Aircraft types (e.g., Airbus A300, F-15 Eagle)
- Lists of aircraft types (e.g., List of aircraft, List of civil aircraft)
  - Individual famous aircraft (e.g., Spirit of St. Louis)
Aircraft engine technology (e.g., jet engine)
- Aircraft engines (e.g., Pratt & Whitney Wasp)

Articles on aircraft types form the bulk of the project and see the greatest activity. Newly contributed articles can be found listed at Wikipedia:New articles (Aircraft). Contributions older than the previous month can be found here.

1 How you can help
- 1.1 Awards
2 Project status
3 Other WikiProject details
4 Recognized content
5 Former recognized content
- 5.1 Former featured articles
- 5.2 Former good articles

[edit] How you can help

Cleanup needed: Aircraft compass turns • Bypass ratio
Requested articles: Flight azimuths •
Expansion needed: Category:Aircraft stubs Category:Aircraft component stubs Category:Aircraft engine stubs Category:Bomber stubs visit task force · edit this list

Aviation WikiProject announcements and open tasks watch · edit · discuss
Announcements
Volunteer at the Outreach department, help sign up new members and distribute the monthly newsletter! The collaboration and review departments are open. Please visit and nominate or help review articles! There is a new project banner {{WPAVIATION}}. It will replace all the various banners used by the various projects, while still providing all the individual uses.
Featured article candidates x • y Featured content candidates Peer review Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Peer review/P-38 Lightning •	Featured article review Wikipedia:Featured article review/Zeppelin • Collaboration Malaysia-Singapore Airlines Articles needing attention • Needing infoboxes • Unassessed • B-class review • More...
View full version (including requested articles and task force lists)

If you would like to participate, add yourself to the Participants page.

You can help out by editing an aircraft-related article, helping to complete a task on our to-do list, or contributing to the discussion on one of our related talk pages. If you would like some suggestions, just ask on the talk page.

If you find an aircraft-related article that hasn't been updated to the specifications standards mandated by the Project you can add {{Aero-table}}. If the aircraft page has no specifications add {{aero-specs}}.

If you find an aircraft-related article without our template, please place our template {{WPAVIATION}} at the top of the talk page. You can also add this to the talk page of images, categories, and templates.

If you find an aircraft-related stub article that has not yet been marked as a stub, add {{Aero-stub}} to the bottom of the article. It will automatically be included in the aircraft stubs category, where you can find plenty of stub articles to expand.

Also, please feel free to add new articles to the page Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft/Articles, so we can monitor changes to them with the recent changes function.

[edit] Awards

Wikiwings are the official award of WikiProject Aircraft. Styled after military flight wings, they are awarded to anyone who makes extensive, high-quality, or generally valued contributions to the area of aviation on wikipedia. They can be awarded by anyone, to anyone, in a barnstar-like fashion.

The wikiwings award is modelled after Rlandmann's wikiwings award, and were officially adopted by WikiProject Aircraft on October 29, 2005.

[edit] Project status

At the end of 2005, a total of around 2,100 articles on aircraft types existed. The creation of new aircraft articles has slowed to an average of around 35 articles per month. For comparison, Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation (ISBN 0517103168) claims to have "over 5,000 entries".

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[edit] Parentage

The parent of this WikiProject is the Aviation WikiProject.

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No descendant WikiProjects have been defined.

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[edit] Recognized content

[edit] Featured articles

[edit] Good articles

[edit] Did you know (DYK)s

Cessna 165 3 December 2006
Pitot-static system - 11 January 2007
Fokker Spin - 15 January 2007
Peter Masak - 16 January 2007
Short Sturgeon - 18 January 2007
Sukhoi Su-12 - 21 January 2007
Fokker F.VIII - 21 January 2007
Blohm und Voss Bv 144 - 22 January 2007
Abkhazian Air Force - 22 January 2007
Valmet Tuuli - 23 January 2007

[edit] Former recognized content

[edit] Former featured articles

[edit] Former good articles

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