- 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 ...
The British term that means the same as “radio,” used in the United States.
Industry:Aviation
The broad current or pattern of persistent easterly winds in the tropics and in polar regions.
Industry:Aviation
The business of taking pictures from aircraft in flight. There are two basic types of aerial photography: oblique and vertical.
Vertical photography is used for mapping. In this process, the aircraft is flown at a high altitude, and special cameras take pictures of the terrain directly below the aircraft.
Oblique photography, in which hand-held cameras are used to take pictures of objects on the ground, is used for news photography and advertising. Doors or windows are usually removed from the aircraft used for oblique aerial photography.
Industry:Aviation
The cable in an airplane control system that ties the upside of both ailerons together.
When the control wheel is rotated, a cable from the cockpit pulls one aileron down and relaxes the cable going to the other aileron. The balance cable pulls the other aileron up.
Industry:Aviation
The capacitance across the input terminals of an electrical circuit. It is the capacitance “seen” by the input device.
Industry:Aviation
The capacitance between the electrodes in an electron tube (vacuum tube). A capacitor is simply two conductors separated by an insulator, or dielectric. The electrodes in an electron tube are the conductors, and the vacuum is the dielectric.
High-frequency signals can feed back from one electrode to another through the interelectrode capacitance inside a tube. To prevent this feedback, neutralizing circuits must be used.
Industry:Aviation
