- 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 ...
An aircraft engine magneto that uses a single rotating magnet to supply the magnetic flux for two magneto circuits. A double magneto has two coil assemblies, two sets of breaker points, and two distributors, but only one rotating magnet and one cam.
Industry:Aviation
An aircraft engine that carries its supply of lubricating oil in a sump, or compartment, which is part of the engine itself. After serving its lubricating functions, the oil drains back into the sump by gravity.
A dry-sump engine uses an external oil tank, and the oil, after flowing through the engine, is moved by scavenger pumps to the external tank where it is stored until it is pumped through the engine again.
Industry:Aviation
An aircraft engine that has been completely rebuilt by the original engine manufacturer or by a facility approved by them. A remanufactured engine is considered to be a zero-time
engine and is usually given the same warranty as a new engine.
The term “remanufactured” does not have any official meaning to the FAA, but it is often used to mean the same as the FAA term “rebuilt.”
Industry:Aviation
An aircraft finishing material consisting of an acrylic resin vehicle and certain volatile solvents.
Industry:Aviation
An aircraft finishing product having a film base of cellulose fibers dissolved in a mixture of acetic and butric acids. Butyrate dope, also called CAB (cellulose-acetate, butyrate) dope, contains, in addition to the film base, the necessary solvents, thinners, and plasticizers to make it bond to the fabric and shrink it.
Butyrate dope has, to a great extent, replaced nitrate dope because it is less flammable than nitrate.
Industry:Aviation
An aircraft flown in proximity to another aircraft normally to observe its performance during flight testing.
Industry:Aviation
An aircraft having no engine, which is capable of free flight only while it is descending through the air. Gliders are launched by towing them behind an airplane, pulling them into the air with an automobile, or shooting them into the air with a catapult. High-performance gliders are called sailplanes.
Industry:Aviation
An aircraft in which the cabin area is sealed off and pressurized with air from a cabin supercharger. Passengers and crew need supplemental oxygen when the air pressure gets much below that found at an altitude of about 10,000 feet.
To preclude the need of supplemental oxygen when flying at high altitude, the air pressure in the cabin can be increased to a pressure that compares with an altitude of about six to eight thousand feet. Humans are comfortable at this pressure.
Industry:Aviation
An aircraft instrument in which two instrument mechanisms move pointers across a single dial.
Many engine instruments installed in multiengine aircraft are dual indicators. For example, the oil pressure for both engines may be indicated on a single instrument. There are two separate indicator mechanisms and two pointers, but only one instrument case and one dial.
Industry:Aviation
An aircraft instrument system that uses a few multicolor cathode-ray-tube displays to replace a large number of mechanically actuated instruments.
Industry:Aviation
