- Industri: Aviation
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Aviation Supplies & Academics, Inc. (ASA) develops and markets aviation supplies, software, and books for pilots, flight instructors, flight engineers, airline professionals, air traffic controllers, flight attendants, aviation technicians and enthusiasts. Established in 1947, ASA also provides ...
A container in a jet aircraft engine compartment used to collect the fuel which drains from the main fuel manifold when the engine is shut down.
Industry:Aviation
A container in which liquid is stored. The tank in a hydraulic system is called a reservoir because it stores fluid until it is needed to actuate some component in the system.
Industry:Aviation
A container made of a material that can be heated to a very high temperature. Materials to be melted are put into the crucible and heated to the temperature needed to melt them. Certain types of high-grade steel are made in crucibles.
Industry:Aviation
A container that holds the paint material to be sprayed under a controlled air pressure. The material is forced by the air pressure to the spray gun, where it is mixed with atomizing air and sprayed onto the surface being painted.
Industry:Aviation
A continuous hinge consisting of hinge sections fastened to both the fixed and movable bodies. A piece of hard spring-steel wire passes through holes in the two sections to act as the hinge pin.
Industry:Aviation
A continuous telephone recording containing current and forecast weather information for pilots.
Industry:Aviation
A continuous, low-current charge used to keep storage batteries fully charged at all times. A trickle charge puts just enough current into the battery to restore the electrical energy lost through the internal resistance of the battery.
Industry:Aviation
A control installed in a reciprocating-engine-powered aircraft that allows the pilot to vary the fuel-air mixture ratio while the engine is running.
A reciprocating engine requires the proper amount of fuel to be mixed with the air on the basis of the weight of the air. But most fuel-metering systems measure the fuel on the basis of the volume, not the weight, of the air entering the engine. The density (weight per unit volume) of the air decreases as the aircraft goes up in altitude, and the pilot must be able to decrease the amount of fuel metered into the less dense air. This adjustment is made with the mixture control.
Industry:Aviation
A control technique used by air traffic control whereby turbojet aircraft operating successively along suitable routes are cleared to maintain appropriate Mach numbers for a relevant portion of the enroute phase of flight. The principal objective is to achieve improved utilization of the airspace and to ensure that separation between successive aircraft does not decrease below the established minimums.
Industry:Aviation
