- 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 ...
Any component used to increase the lift produced by an aircraft wing. High-lift devices include leading edge flaps, slots, slats, trailing edge flaps, and boundary layer control systems. High-lift devices allow the wing to reach a higher angle of attack and thus produce more lift, before the airflow over its surface separates and the wing stalls.
Industry:Aviation
Any cyclone that is not a tropical cyclone. It usually refers to the migratory frontal cyclones found in the middle or high latitudes.
Industry:Aviation
Any damage or injury that occurs when an aircraft is moving with the intention of flight.
Industry:Aviation
Any development or strengthening of cyclonic circulation in the atmosphere. Cyclonic circulation is counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
Industry:Aviation
Any device that combines fluid pressures with mechanical actions to achieve a desired result. In a hydromechanical fuel control used for a turbine engine, hydraulic servos are used in conjunction with mechanical linkages.
Industry:Aviation
Any device used in the operation of an aircraft that is not a part of the airframe, engine, or propeller. Pumps, actuators, generators, instruments, and radio receivers and transmitters are all examples of appliances.
Industry:Aviation
Any dry particles or particles of liquid water other than clouds.
Obscuring phenomena may be either surface-based or aloft.
Industry:Aviation
Any facility used, available for use, or designated for use as an aid in air navigation.
This includes landing areas, lights, and any apparatus or equipment for disseminating weather information.
It also includes radio and other electrical communications equipment used for signaling, for radio-directional finding, and for guiding or controlling the takeoff and landing of aircraft and for flight in the air.
Industry:Aviation
Any gas stored in heavy steel containers, with the gas kept under pressure. Acetylene, propane, oxygen, and nitrogen are commonly used bottled gases.
Industry:Aviation
Any locality either on land, water, or structures, including airports/heliports and intermediate landing fields, which is used, or intended to be used, for the landing and takeoff of aircraft. Landing areas may or may not have facilities for the shelter and servicing of aircraft, or for receiving or discharging passengers or cargo.
Industry:Aviation
