- 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 flight vehicle capable of flight in both the atmosphere surrounding the earth and in the space beyond the atmosphere. The space shuttle is an aerospace vehicle.
Industry:Aviation
A flight vehicle propelled by expanding gases produced when the fuel combines with oxygen carried in the vehicle. Rocket engines can use either liquid or solid fuel, and they are not dependent upon oxygen in the atmosphere. Rockets are used to launch orbiting satellites.
Industry:Aviation
A flightcrew member of a large aircraft who is responsible for the mechanical operation of the aircraft and its engines. His or her duties include monitoring the engines, the electrical systems, the fuel system, and the environmental control system.
Industry:Aviation
A float that can be attached to a land airplane to allow it to operate from water. Two pontoons are often installed on a land plane to convert it into a float plane.
Industry:Aviation
A floating plate in an energizing-type brake to which the wheel cylinder and the brake shoes attach.
Industry:Aviation
A floating plate on which the wheel cylinder and the brake shoes are attached on an energizing-type brake.
Industry:Aviation
A floor- or bench-mounted metalworking tool used to cut across large sheets of thin metal. Short cutting blades, operated by a lever, cut across the sheet in much the same way scissors cut across a sheet of paper.
Industry:Aviation
A flow control device in a metering orifice, used to vary the amount of fluid that can flow through it. The area of the orifice with the pin fully in it determines the minimum amount of fluid that can flow, and the area of the jet with the pin all the way out determines the maximum amount of flow. The shape, or contour, of the metering pin determines the amount of fluid that can flow with the pin in any position other than full in or full out.
Industry:Aviation
A flow control valve used in hydraulic systems to direct pressurized fluid into one side of an actuator, and at the same time direct return fluid from the other side of the actuator back to the reservoir.
There are two basic types of selector valves: open-center valves and closed-center valves. The four-port closed-center valve is the most frequently used type.
Industry:Aviation
A flow of electrons that varies in its rate of flow, but does not change its direction of flow. A rectifier changes alternating current into pulsating direct current.
Industry:Aviation
