Stack Exchange — aviation.stackexchange.com

The content of aviation.stackexchange.com (https://aviation.stackexchange.com/), a Stack Exchange question-and-answer site, as published in the Stack Exchange Data Dump of April 2024 on the Internet Archive. The posts table holds 258,873 rows: 75,737 posts (25,475 questions, 48,309 answers, 963 tag wiki excerpts, 963 tag wikis, 26 posts of type 6 and 1 post of type 7) and 183,136 comments, written between 17 December 2013 and 31 March 2024. Beside it are 58,302 user accounts, 638,678 votes, 127,466 badges awarded, 1,057 tags, 269,954 post revisions and 17,794 links between posts. Every answer keeps the question it answers and every comment the post it was written on, so the threads can be rebuilt. The Internet Archive item describes the dump as anonymised; the votes table names the voter in only 326 rows.

#Aviation#Expertise network#Stack exchange data dump

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Analytics

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· graph.json

The full graph has 12,428 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.

12.4K
Nodes
35.9K
Edges
2.32e-04
Density
75
Components
-0.1845
Assortativity
2.0%
Reciprocity
6.6K
Bridges
Most central nodes
36740.0169
227260.01682
33940.01392
5110.01344
276770.0132
32010.01263
690.01199
186280.01119
970.01119
33860.01062
Content metrics

258,873 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

x scoreμ 2.937 ± 6.784
min -14max 326
x view countμ 3.7K ± 9.5K
min 21max 264.1K
x answer countμ 1.897 ± 1.505
min 0max 18
x comment countμ 2.419 ± 3.131
min 0max 39
x favorite count0.7% true
true 0.7%false 99.3%
9.2
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
10.2
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
aircraftflightairenginewinglikespeedpilotquestiontimeansweruseliftplanedonfuelneedflyingpressureflylandingaltitudecontrolpowergroundknowhighwaypointdragthrustsystemthinkangleenginesairplanerunwaydifferentpilotsrightairportweightcasegoodapproachfaaexampleforcelowturn
Topic clusters

Topic 0

pilot
flight
certificate
aircraft
faa
passenger
time
fly

Topic 1

aircraft
aviation
plane
question
boeing
cost
airbus
paint

Topic 2

wing
rudder
lift
tail
angle
pitch
aircraft
aileron

Topic 3

wing
airfoil
drag
lift
flow
pressure
vortex
edge

Topic 4

question
answer
edit
comment
ask
vote
post
think

Topic 5

approach
airspace
class
vfr
ifr
atc
clearance
airport

Topic 6

runway
airport
taxiway
land
departure
aircraft
area
takeoff

Topic 7

engine
turbine
compressor
fan
thrust
air
turbofan
jet

Topic 8

rotor
helicopter
propeller
blade
power
thrust
speed
rpm

Topic 9

radar
signal
antenna
frequency
transponder
radio
mode
aircraft

Topic 10

thank
answer
question
appreciate
good
nice
help
post

Topic 11

fuel
tank
pump
engine
valve
air
system
jet
Show all 13 topics

Topic 12

missile
fighter
bomber
weapon
bomb
target
gun
aircraft
Top hashtags
#1507
#2448
#3212
#4103
#sec76
#v45
#533
#specifications30
#page29
#624
#specifications_24
#721
#se1421
#5647620
#imgrc18
#t15
#812
#q12
#history11
#design9

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
stackexchange-aviation-stackexchange-com
Authors
Stack Exchange, Inc.
Year
2024
Source paper
Stack Exchange Data Dump
License
CC BY-SA 3.0 / 4.0 (by contribution date) (CC-BY-SA-3.0 AND CC-BY-SA-4.0)
Records
284,796
Nodes
12,428
Edges
35,863 (directed)
Nodes are
user (Stack Exchange account)
Edges are
answer collaboration (A answered B's question)
Attributes
nodes have attributes; edges have attributes
Text corpus
question titles, post bodies, comment text, tag names
Languages
en
Collected
2013/2024 (2010s, 2020s)
Tasks
From the graph: link prediction, community detection
Region
Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)

Provenance

Originally published at
https://archive.org/details/stackexchange link checked
Original files as received
The source files, unconverted, kept for reference: mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 101.7 MB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json. For use, start with the data package below.
Data package
Version 1.0.0 of this dataset as an ECHO Data Package: posts (258,873 rows), users (58,302 rows), x_votes (638,678 rows), x_badges (127,466 rows), x_tags (1,057 rows), x_post_history (269,954 rows), x_post_links (17,794 rows).
Structure
Temporal (timestamped), Node attributes, Text, Threaded conversations

How to cite

BibTeX

@misc{echo2026,
  title  = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
  author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://echo.directory},
  note   = {Syracuse University}
}

@misc{stackexchange_2024,
  title     = {Stack Exchange Data Dump},
  author    = {{Stack Exchange, Inc.}},
  year      = {2024},
  month     = {apr},
  publisher = {Internet Archive},
  url       = {https://archive.org/details/stackexchange}
}

APA

Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory

Stack Exchange, Inc. (2024). Stack Exchange — aviation.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-aviation.echo.directory/

MLA

Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.

Stack Exchange, Inc. Stack Exchange — aviation.stackexchange.com. 2024, stackexchange-aviation.echo.directory/.

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