- 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 ...
Ram air pressure used to measure airspeed. The pitot tube faces directly into the air flowing around the aircraft. It stops the air and allows the pressure caused by its movement to be measured.
Industry:Aviation
Rapid and uncontrolled oscillation of a flight control surface on an aircraft caused by a dynamically unbalanced condition. Flutter normally causes the loss of the control surface and a crash.
Industry:Aviation
Rapid movement of the power control lever of a gas turbine engine which calls for maximum acceleration of the engine.
Industry:Aviation
RATO is a method of assisted takeoff that can be used by a heavily loaded airplane when taking off from a high-altitude airport. Auxiliary boost rockets, attached to the airframe, are ignited at the critical time during takeoff to provide the needed additional thrust.
Industry:Aviation
Rays of electromagnetic energy having a wavelength of approximately one angstrom. X-rays are produced by accelerating electrons to a high velocity and then stopping them instantly by collision with a solid object.
X-rays are able to penetrate many types of solid objects and are used to produce a photographic record of the inside of an aircraft structure.
Industry:Aviation
Recorded noncontrol information continuously broadcast in selected terminal areas. ATIS information contains appropriate weather observations, altimeter setting, instrument approaches in use, and airport information needed by pilots approaching the airport.
The use of ATIS frees the controller of having to repeat this basic information on the initial call-up from each pilot.
Industry:Aviation
Red and white holding position signs located alongside the hold-short point.
Industry:Aviation
Reference locations along the span of an aileron. Aileron stations are measured from the inboard end outward.
Industry:Aviation
Refraction of a radar beam under normal atmospheric conditions. The normal radius of curvature of the beam is about four times the radius of the curvature of the earth.
Industry:Aviation
Regulations established by the Federal Aviation Administration which govern the operation of aircraft, airways, and airmen. Compliance with FARs is mandatory.
In 1996, all references to the FARs were changed to “14 CFR” (Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations).
Industry:Aviation
