#aerostation
- Aerostation — The science, technology, or practical activity dealing with the design, construction, piloting, and operation of aircraft lighter than air (aerostats, balloons, airships). It represents the first historical stage of human aerial navigation, theoretically grounded in the laws of static and hydrostatic lift applied to large volumes of light gases or hot air.
- Archaic aerostation — An archaic or obsolete linguistic variant of the term 'aerostație'; the art or technique of navigating the atmosphere using lighter-than-air craft. The term is encountered exclusively in old legal documents, literary magazines from the early 20th century, or early translations of scientific manuscripts from French.