- Industry: Aviation
- Number of terms: 16387
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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 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. A landing/takeoff area is not required to have facilities for shelter, servicing, and receiving or discharging passengers or cargo.
Industry:Aviation
Any material that can be burned to release its energy. Gasoline, kerosine, coal, wood, and natural gas are all forms of fuel.
Industry:Aviation
Any material that can eat away another material by chemical action. Both strong acids and strong aklalis are caustic materials.
Industry:Aviation
Any material that cannot be magnetized nor is attracted to a magnet. Wood, paper, and most plastics are nonmagnetic, and aluminum, brass, and most nonferrous metals are nonmagnetic.
Industry:Aviation
Any metal that contains iron and has magnetic characteristics. Magnetic characteristics include the ability to be magnetized and to be attracted by a magnet.
Industry:Aviation
Any noise heard or seen in a piece of electronic equipment when no signal is present. Background noise in a radio receiver is normally heard as a steady hiss.
Industry:Aviation
Any nonfrontal line or narrow band of active thunderstorms with or without squalls.
Industry:Aviation
Any nonoccluded front which moves in such a way that cold air replaces warmer air.
Industry:Aviation
Any of a group of strong, heat-resistant materials made by sintering metals with ceramic. Sintering is a process of pressing powdered materials together under enough heat that they are almost, but not, quite melted. Cermet, also known as ceramet, or metal ceramic, is used to make turbine blades for gas turbine engines.
Industry:Aviation
Any of several hard, brittle, heat-resistant, noncorrosive materials made by shaping and then firing a mineral, such as clay, at a high temperature.
Ceramic electrical insulators are stronger than glass, and they withstand high temperatures better than glass.
Industry:Aviation
