- 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 arrangement of the fuel system plumbing of a multiengine aircraft that allows any of the engines to operate from any of its fuel tanks.
The cross-feed system also allows fuel to be transferred from one side of the aircraft to the other side to maintain balance in flight.
Industry:Aviation
An arrangement of work stations in an aircraft factory that allows a certain function to be performed on all aircraft at a particular physical location.
Special tools and specially trained personnel stay in one location, and each aircraft is moved to this location for the function to be performed.
Industry:Aviation
An arrival, departure, or approach procedure developed for use by aircraft with a slant (/)E or slant (/)F equipment suffix.
Industry:Aviation
An assembly of components that is part of a larger device. A wing is a subassembly of an airplane.
Industry:Aviation
An assembly of thermocouples connected together. These thermocouples can be connected in series to get a higher voltage or in parallel to get a larger amount of current. Thermopiles are used to measure temperature or to change electromagnetic radiant energy into electrical power.
Industry:Aviation
An atom of a chemical element alloyed with silicon or germanium to give the material a deficiency of electrons, making the material into a P-type material.
Industry:Aviation
An atom that has become electrically unbalanced by losing one or more electrons. Since there are more protons in the nucleus than there are electrons surrounding the nucleus, the atom has a positive charge.
Industry:Aviation
An atom with an imbalance between its electrons and its protons. A balanced atom has the same number of protons (positive electrical charges) in its nucleus as it has electrons (negative electrical charges) surrounding the nucleus. If a balanced atom loses an electron, it becomes a positive ion. If it gains an extra electron, it becomes a negative ion.
Industry:Aviation
An attachment device that is used to connect components to an aircraft structure.
Industry:Aviation
An audio-frequency transformer, used between the last stage of an audio-frequency amplifier and a speaker. The impedance of the amplifier’s output stage is usually quite high, and the impedance of a speaker is low. For the maximum amount of power to be transferred from the amplifier to the speaker, the impedance of the amplifier must match that of the speaker, and this matching is done with an output transformer.
Industry:Aviation
