- 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 vertically directed radar used to detect cloud bases and tops.
Industry:Aviation
A very fine abrasive paste used to wear away a metal surface to make it smooth, and to assure a perfect fit between two machined surfaces. Lapping compound is similar to valve-grinding compound.
Industry:Aviation
A very fine, dark red abrasive made of ferric oxide. Jeweler’s rouge is used for polishing hard metal surfaces.
Industry:Aviation
A very hard, brittle, highly corrosion-resistant, whitish-yellow, metallic chemical element. Iridium’s symbol is Ir, its atomic number is 77, and its atomic weight is 192.2.
Iridium is used for electrical contacts and as an alloying agent in high-temperature metals. Spark plugs having fine-wire electrodes made of iridium are used in engines in which lead-fouling is a problem.
Industry:Aviation
A very light coat of metal primer. A mist coat is so thin that the metal is still visible, but the primer makes pencil marks easy to see.
Industry:Aviation
A very short open-end or box-end wrench with a square drive hole that allows it to be mounted on an extension which may be turned by a flex, or breakover, handle. A crowfoot wrench is used to turn a nut in a location where it cannot be reached and turned with any other kind of wrench.
Industry:Aviation
A very simple test for delamination in a bonded structural component. The material is tapped with a coin, and the sound is noted. If the sound is a clear metallic ringing, the material is good, and there is no delamination. But if the tapping produces a dull thudding noise, there is a good possibility that the laminations of which the material is made have begun to separate.
Industry:Aviation
A very thin sheet of metal used as an electrode in electrolytic capacitors. The use of foil allows a large-area electrode to be contained in a small physical space.
Industry:Aviation
A very tough alloy of steel with chromium and vanadium. Chrome vanadium steel is used for making wrenches and other tools that require high strength and good impact resistance.
Industry:Aviation
