- 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 ...
A component used with either aircraft gas turbine or reciprocating engines to drive AC generators. The speed of the output shaft of the CSD is held constant while the speed of its input shaft varies.
The CSD holds the speed of the generator constant and thus the frequency of the AC it produces, as the engine speed varies through its normal operating range.
Industry:Aviation
A component, usually an oil, added to a paint to improve its drying characteristics.
Industry:Aviation
A composite of two fronts. An occluded front forms when a cold front overtakes a warm front or a quasi-stationary front.
Industry:Aviation
A composition material made by bonding sawdust and chips of wood with an adhesive under heat and pressure.
Industry:Aviation
A compound made by treating cellulose with a mixture of nitric and sulfuric acids. Cellulose nitrate is used as the base for certain plastics, and as a component in the manufacture of explosives. Cellulose nitrate is also known as nitrocellulose and guncotton.
Industry:Aviation
A compound of aluminum and oxygen whose chemical formula is Al2O3. Aluminum oxide is extremely hard and is used as an abrasive.
Industry:Aviation
A compound of calcium and carbon which decomposes, or breaks down, in water to produce acetylene gas.
Industry:Aviation
A compound of hydrogen and oxygen containing a larger proportion of deuterium (an isotope of hydrogen with one neutron in the nucleus) than normally occurs in water.
Industry:Aviation
A compound of tantalum and carbon in a hard, crystalline form, used for making cutting tools and dies.
Industry:Aviation
A compound screw arrangement. A differential screw changes the separation between two parts by the amount of difference in the pitch of the two screw threads.
If the coarse screw increases the space 0.050 inch for each revolution, and the fine screw decreases the space 0.0357 inch for each revolution, one revolution of the differential screw will increase the space by 0.0143 inch.
Industry:Aviation
