- 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 engine change assembly (quick engine change) that allows an aircraft engine to be changed with the least amount of downtime. The engine is mounted on the engine mounts, all of the accessories and the propeller are mounted on the engine, and the cowling is installed. The QEC assembly essentially contains everything forward of the firewall.
Q-factor of a coil. A measure of the quality factor of the coil. Q is the ratio of the inductive reactance of a coil to its resistance, both measured in ohms.
Industry:Aviation
An engine component designed to hold the lubricating oil. In a wet-sump engine, the entire supply of oil is held in the sump. In a dry-sump engine, the sump is small and holds the oil only until the scavenger pump can move it into an external oil tank.
Industry:Aviation
An engine control used with a turboprop engine to control the pitch of the propeller for the flight operating range, the alpha range, of operation.
Industry:Aviation
An engine having applications for space travel. Neutral plasma, accelerated and directed by external magnetic fields, interacts with the magnetic fields produced by current flowing through the plasma.
Industry:Aviation
An engine in which the lubricating oil supply is carried in a reservoir, or tank, that is not part of the engine. Both gas turbine and reciprocating engines can have dry-sump lubricating systems.
Industry:Aviation
An engine installed on an aircraft in such a way that the propeller faces the front of the aircraft. Thrust produced by the propeller mounted on a tractor engine pulls the aircraft through the air.
Industry:Aviation
An engine instrument that shows the pilot or flight engineer the temperature of the oil as it enters the engine.
Industry:Aviation
An engine speed that produces a minimum amount of flight thrust. Flight idle RPM is usually in the 70% to 80% RPM range.
Industry:Aviation
An engine that requires an intake of air to supply the oxygen it needs to operate.
Reciprocating and turbine engines are both air-breathing engines, but most rockets carry an oxidizing agent with their fuel. The oxidizing agent furnishes the needed oxygen.
Industry:Aviation
An engine which has been shut down in flight and is no longer operating.
Industry:Aviation
