- Industry: Aviation
- Number of terms: 16387
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
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 component in a lubrication system that attracts and holds ferrous metal chips that may be circulating with the engine oil.
Some chip detectors are part of an electrical circuit. When a metal particle shorts across the two contacts in the detector, the circuit is completed, and a warning light is turned on to inform the flight crew that metal particles are loose in the lubrication system.
Industry:Aviation
A component in a machine that connects or disconnects parts while they are moving. Clutches may be actuated by mechanical levers, hydraulic actuators, centrifugal force, or electromagnetism.
Industry:Aviation
A component in a power brake system between the power brake control valve and the wheel cylinder.
The debooster lowers the pressure of the fluid going to the brake and increases its volume, allowing the brakes to be applied more smoothly and released more quickly than they could be if system pressure went directly into the brakes.
Industry:Aviation
A component in a turbine engine lubrication system that removes the air from the scavenged oil before the oil is returned to the tank.
Industry:Aviation
A component in a wash primer used to mildly etch the surface of a metal being primed. The etched surface provides a good bond between the finishing system and the metal.
Industry:Aviation
A component in an aircraft power brake system, used to reduce the pressure between the brake control valve and the wheel cylinder. A lock-out debooster shuts off the flow of fluid to the wheel cylinder if the line should break.
Industry:Aviation
A component in an automatic flight control system that actually moves the flight control. There are servos in each of the primary controls: the ailerons, elevators, and rudder. The automatic pilot senses when a flight correction is needed, and it sends a signal to the servo to move the control surface in the proper direction to make the correction.
Industry:Aviation
A component in an electronic weighing system that contains strain gages. When an aircraft is weighed, the load cells are placed between the jacks and the jack pads on the aircraft, and the aircraft is raised by the jacks. The weight of the aircraft compresses the load cells, and the compression changes the resistance of the strain gages. The change in this resistance is converted into units of weight the load cell is supporting.
Industry:Aviation
A component in the flight management system of a jet transport aircraft that senses the engine parameters and power requests and controls the thrust produced by the engines.
Industry:Aviation
A component in the reciprocating engine controls for a helicopter that automatically increases and decreases the amount of throttle opening as the collective pitch control is raised or lowered.
The final adjustment of the power must be done by the twist grip, because the correlation box does not adjust for nonstandard atmospheric conditions.
Industry:Aviation
