- 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 ...
A list of metals arranged in the order of their chemical activity. The metals are listed in their order of activity with the more active (least noble) metal being the anode in an electrolytic action.
Industry:Aviation
A list of standard words used for each letter in the alphabet. The use of a standard phonetic alphabet assures that the letters are not misunderstood during radio transmission.
Industry:Aviation
A load carried by a helicopter outside of the aircraft itself. External loads are normally carried by slings suspended below the helicopter.
Industry:Aviation
A local irregularity of wind in a larger scale wind flow. Small-scale eddies produce turbulent conditions.
Industry:Aviation
A local storm invariably produced by a cumulonimbus cloud and always accompanied by lightning and thunder.
Industry:Aviation
A localized, extremely high-intensity column of descending air. Microbursts have such extreme downward velocity that any aircraft, when flying slow near the ground, as during takeoff and landing, can be slammed into the ground before it is able to fly out of it.
Industry:Aviation
A location directly above the antenna of a four-course, low-frequency radio range in which the signals from the antennas cancel and no signal is received. The cone of silence can be identified by the signal building up in volume just before it disappears.
Industry:Aviation
A location inside a high-tension magneto in which a portion of the metal housing is close enough to the high-voltage terminal to prevent the secondary voltage building up high enough to damage the coil insulation. The spark plug normally provides the gap for the spark to jump, but if a lead is off a spark plug, the secondary voltage could build up high enough to damage the coil insulation. Rather than the voltage building up this high, it jumps the safety gap.
Industry:Aviation
A location on a body in a stream of moving fluid at which the fluid has stopped—it has no velocity. The stagnation point on an airfoil is at the leading edge where the air splits, with some air passing over the top of the airfoil and the rest passing below it.
Industry:Aviation
