- 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 ...
Light which has been passed through a collimator lens so all the rays are parallel, rather than converging or diverging.
Industry:Aviation
Light whose intensity is changed by an audio-frequency AC voltage. When modulated light shines on a photoelectric cell, the output of the cell changes in the same way as the intensity of the modulated light.
Industry:Aviation
Light whose vibrations do not have any consistent phase relationship.
Industry:Aviation
Lines drawn across aeronautical navigational charts that connect points having the same magnetic variation. Isogonic means “the same angle.”
Industry:Aviation
Lines that run in the same direction and are at all points separated by the same distance. Parallel lines never cross.
Industry:Aviation
Lines which pass through a common point. The perpendicular bisectors of the three sides of a triangle all pass through the same point, and these bisectors are concurrent lines.
Industry:Aviation
Locations on an aircraft, designated by the manufacturer, for the placement of the scales or load capsules when the aircraft is being weighed.
Industry:Aviation
Long pieces of wire that are melted into a weld to provide additional material to strengthen the weld. Filler rods are usually called welding rods.
Industry:Aviation
Long threaded rods that extend across the crankcase of an aircraft reciprocating engine to hold the crankcase halves together. The through bolts pass through the cylinder base flanges of one cylinder on each side of the crankcase, and nuts on the through bolts hold the cylinders to the crankcase, as well as holding the halves of the crankcase together.
Industry:Aviation
