- 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 ...
Small restrictors placed in the tail pipe of a gas turbine engine to change the exhaust nozzle area. Changing the area of the exhaust nozzle affects the trim conditions of the engine.
Industry:Aviation
Small strips of metal mounted on the side of a flying boat hull. Spray strips throw a spray of water out away from the aircraft.
Industry:Aviation
Small vertical surfaces mounted on the underside of the horizontal stabilizer of some airplanes to increase directional stability.
Industry:Aviation
Small wing-like horizontal surfaces mounted on the aft fuselage of some airplanes to improve longitudinal stability. Stabilons are installed on airplanes that have an exceptionally wide center of gravity range.
Industry:Aviation
Small, transparent or translucent, round or irregularly shaped pellets of ice. Ice pellets may be hard grains that rebound on striking a hard surface or may be pellets of snow encased in ice.
Industry:Aviation
Small-diameter metal tubes that connect can-type combustors to carry the ignition flame to all of the combustion chambers.
Industry:Aviation
Small-diameter, soft steel wire used to tie identification tags to objects.
Industry:Aviation
Smooth, continuous rings of brass or copper mounted on the rotor shaft of an electrical generator or alternator. Current used to produce the magnetic field in the rotor of a DC alternator flows into the rotor coil through slip rings. Slip rings also carry current into the deicer heating coils on an airplane propeller blade.
Industry:Aviation
Snow particles picked up from the surface by the wind and carried to a height of less than six feet.
Industry:Aviation
Snow picked up locally from the surface by the wind and carried to a height of six feet or more.
Industry:Aviation
