- 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 ...
Checks performed on rotating components after they have been repaired or overhauled to determine their condition of static and dynamic balance.
Industry:Aviation
Circular corrugated metal capsules that are either evacuated or filled with an inert gas under a specific pressure.
Bellows are used to measure pressure. As the pressure acting on the outside of the bellows changes, the bellows expand or contract. The change in the thickness of the bellows is measured, and this change relates to the change in pressure acting on the bellows.
Industry:Aviation
Classification of aircraft according to their maximum certificated gross weight:
Small aircraft. Aircraft weighing up to 12,500 pounds certificated takeoff weight.
Large aircraft. Aircraft of more than 12,500 pounds maximum certificated takeoff weight.
Industry:Aviation
Classification of navigational aids according to their operational uses. The three classes are: T – Terminal, L – Low altitude, and H – High altitude.
Industry:Aviation
Cleaning the compressor blades, casings, and inlet guide vanes of a turbojet engine by spraying them with an emulsion-type cleaner, followed by a rinse with distilled or demineralized water. Field cleaning is done while the engine is motored by the starter or operated at a low RPM.
Industry:Aviation
Clear aircraft dope in which tiny flakes of aluminum are suspended.
When aluminum-pigmented dope is sprayed over the clear dope used on aircraft fabric, the tiny flakes of aluminum spread out and form an opaque coating that prevents ultraviolet rays from the sun damaging the clear dope and the fabric.
Industry:Aviation
Cloth made of long-staple cotton, used to cover certain types of aircraft structures. Grade-A cotton fabric has between 80 and 84 threads per inch in both warp and fill, and new grade-A fabric has a minimum tensile strength of 80 pounds per inch.
Industry:Aviation
Cloth tape whose edges have small V-shaped notches cut along their length. The pinked edges prevent the tape from raveling.
Industry:Aviation
Cloth woven from glass fibers. Glass cloth can be impregnated with a thermosetting resin and cured in a mold to produce complex-shaped aircraft structural components.
Industry:Aviation
