ENGLISH TEXTS ON MILITARY AVIATION AS A BASE FOR LINGUISTIC CORPUS
Military aviation is a collective notion that specifies both branch of knowledge and activity of using military helicopters and other flying machines for the purposes of conducting or enabling aerial warfare, including national airlift (air cargo) capacity to provide logistical supply to forces stationed in a theater or along a front. Because of its specific language military aviation as a branch of knowledge is interesting not only to technical specialist but to linguists as well. The specificity of military aviation language is clearly recognized in texts. This article deals with the texts on military aviation as a base of a specialized linguistic corpus. The main objectives of the research are to present the field of military aviation as a collection of various texts; to specify genres in this collection; to divide the texts into groups according to genres and certain sources (sites, magazines etc). The main methods of the research are analysis and synthesis. The results of the research include: 1. Genre typology of the military aviation texts; 2. Lists of the sources of these texts; 3. Model of a specialized linguistic corpus called Coptercor.