Aviation vs. Avionics — What's the Difference?

Aviation is the activities surrounding mechanical flight and the aircraft industry. Aircraft includes fixed-wing and rotary-wing types, morphable wings, wing-less lifting bodies, as well as lighter-than-air craft such as hot air balloons and airships.

Avionics (a portmanteau of aviation and electronics) are the electronic systems used on aircraft, artificial satellites, and spacecraft. Avionic systems include communications, navigation, the display and management of multiple systems, and the hundreds of systems that are fitted to aircraft to perform individual functions.

The operation of aircraft.

(used with a sing. verb) The science and technology of electronics and the development of electronic devices as applied to aeronautics and astronautics

The design, development, and production of aircraft.

(used with a pl. verb) The electronic systems, equipment, and other devices so developed

Military aircraft.

(aviation) The science and technology of the development and use of electrical and electronic devices in aviation.

The art or science of making and flying aircraft.

(aviation) The devices used in avionics.

Flying, operating, or operation of aircraft.

Science and technology of electronic systems and devices for aeronautics and astronautics;

Industry that produces aircraft.

Aircraft

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The art or science of flying.

The aggregation of a country's military aircraft

The operation of aircraft to provide transportation

The art of operating aircraft

Travel via aircraft;