- Industry: 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 single-or two-stage pressure regulator that is used to decrease the pressure of acetylene gas to a value that is appropriate for the torch being used. Most regulators have two pressure gages, one to indicate the pressure of the gas in the cylinder and the other to indicate the pressure being delivered to the torch.
Industry:Aviation
A single-piece combustor for a gas turbine engine made in the shape of a ring or a cylinder. Fuel is sprayed from nozzles mounted around a fuel manifold into the inner liner of the combustor. There, it is mixed with air from the compressor and burned.
Annular combustors make the most effective use of the space they occupy, and they are the most efficient type of combustor used in both large and small gas turbine engines.
Industry:Aviation
A single-piece horizontal tail surface on an airplane which serves the purposes of both the horizontal stabilizer and the elevators. A stabilator must have some method of decreasing its sensitivity, and this is done with an antiservo tab on its trailing edge. The antiservo tab automatically moves in the same direction as the stabilator, and the aerodynamic force it produces opposes the movement of the stabilator.
Industry:Aviation
A single-shell type of aircraft structure in which all of the flight loads are carried in its outside skin. Modern aircraft have skins made of aluminum alloy, formed into compound curves, and riveted together into a structure that resembles an eggshell. There is a minimum of structure inside a monocoque skin.
Industry:Aviation
A single-winding electrical transformer that uses a carbon brush riding on a bare portion of the winding to select the number of turns used as the secondary.
Autotransformers produce a secondary voltage that can be varied from almost zero to a value higher than the primary voltage. Autotransformers do not isolate the secondary voltage from the primary voltage.
Industry:Aviation
A situation in which there is apprehension as to the safety of an aircraft and its occupants.
Industry:Aviation
A situation in which there is uncertainty as to the safety of an aircraft and its occupants.
Industry:Aviation
A slave radarscope remotely operated from a weather radar.
Rene metal. The registered trade name for a series of high-strength, high-temperature, nickel-chromium alloys, used in the manufacture of gas turbine engines.
Industry:Aviation
A slide rule with its scales arranged in rings on the surface of a disk. Transparent cursors, attached at the center of the disk, may be moved over the scale to add or subtract portions of the scales to perform the various mathematical operations.
Industry:Aviation
A sliding plug in an actuating cylinder used to convert pressure into force and then into work.
Industry:Aviation
