Flight line: the area of an airfield where aircraft are parked, serviced, armed, and launched; the civilian equivalents are apron and ramp. Hardstand: a paved parking spot for a single aircraft. Marshalling: guiding a taxiing aircraft with standardized hand or light signals. Arming point: a designated area where weapons are loaded or made safe. Nose art: personalized artwork applied to the forward fuselage of a military aircraft. Roundel: a circular national insignia, descended from the French cocarde of 1912. Tail flash: a colored marking on the fin identifying a unit or operator.
Three-view (general-arrangement drawing): orthographic top, side, and front projections of an aircraft on one sheet. Orthographic projection: a parallel projection without perspective, allowing direct measurement. Profile: a side-view drawing, often used to document paint schemes. Cutaway: a drawing with the skin removed to show internal structure. Station: a numbered reference position along the fuselage used to locate cross-sections. Centerline: the axis of symmetry of the airframe. Walkaround: a systematic set of close-range photographs of a real aircraft, used as drawing reference. Limited edition: a numbered print run; artist's proof: a small subset outside the numbered run; giclée: an inkjet print, typically on archival paper.