- 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 ...
Aircraft especially designed and built for use in agriculture.
The main use of agricultural aircraft is that of applying chemicals to crops for insect and weed control, and for seeding and fertilizing large areas in a minimum of time.
Agricultural aircraft are ruggedly built, can carry large loads, can operate from unimproved landing strips, are highly maneuverable, and are built to protect the pilot in the event of a crash.
Industry:Aviation
Aircraft fabric having a series of small V-cuts along its edge made by cutting the fabric with pinking shears. Pinked-edge fabric does not ravel.
Industry:Aviation
Aircraft finishing materials containing certain types of pigments that bleed through any finish applied over them. Bleeding dopes can sometimes be successfully covered with a coat of aluminum-pigmented dope applied before the final topcoats.
Industry:Aviation
Aircraft flight in which the nose of the aircraft is pointed into the wind, while the flight path over the ground is partially across the wind. An airplane is crabbed into the wind to keep it from drifting off the runway when making an approach for a cross-wind landing.
Industry:Aviation
Aircraft operating in the traffic pattern or within sight of the tower, aircraft known to be departing or arriving from flight in local practice areas, or aircraft executing practice instrument approaches at the airport.
Industry:Aviation
Aircraft operation in which the aircraft rises and descends vertically without requiring forward motion. A helicopter is capable of VTOL operation.
Industry:Aviation
Aircraft power brakes that do not lock up and allow a tire to skid. Wheels equipped with nonskid brakes have a wheel-speed sensor in their hub that measures the rate at which the wheel decelerates (slows its rotation). If the wheel decelerates at a rate that shows a skid is beginning, the nonskid valve between the power brake control valve and the wheel cylinder is signaled to release the hydraulic pressure to the brake until the wheel begins to speed up. Then the valve automatically reapplies the pressure.
A wheel equipped with a nonskid brake is held on the edge of a skid, but a skid is not allowed to develop. Nonskid brakes are also called antiskid brakes.
Industry:Aviation
Aircraft records containing the operational or maintenance history of the aircraft.
Industry:Aviation
Aircraft structure joined together by chemical methods, rather than mechanical fasteners.
Components made of laminated fiberglass, honeycomb material, and the advanced composite materials are examples of aircraft bonded structure.
Industry:Aviation
Aircraft that are built by individuals as a hobby rather than by factories as commercial products. Homebuilt, or amateur-built, aircraft are not required to meet the stringent requirements imposed on the manufacturer of FAA-certificated aircraft.
Industry:Aviation
