- 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 popular term for snow shower, particularly of very light and brief nature.
Industry:Aviation
A popular type of antifriction bearing used in many types of machinery.
The outer race, consisting of a grooved hardened steel ring, is mounted in the stationary housing. And an inner race with a matching groove is mounted on the rotating shaft. Polished, hardened steel balls ride in the grooves and support the shaft. The balls are kept spaced evenly in the grooves by a thin sheet-metal bearing retainer. Ball bearings can be designed to support thrust loads as well as radial loads.
Industry:Aviation
A popular type of breathing oxygen system in which oxygen is metered to the mask where it is diluted with cabin air by an airflow-metering aneroid assembly which regulates the amount of air allowed to dilute the oxygen on the basis of cabin altitude.
As the aircraft goes to higher altitude, the amount of cabin air metered into the oxygen is automatically decreased until at about 34,000 feet, the cabin air is entirely shut off and the regulator sends 100% oxygen to the mask.
The oxygen and air flow to the mask only when the wearer inhales, but the regulators have an emergency position which allows the pilot to manually bypass the demand function and sends a continuous flow of 100% oxygen to the mask.
Industry:Aviation
A porous bag in the water separator of an air-cycle air conditioning system which traps water from the air.
Industry:Aviation
A portion of an aircraft engine containing the drive gears to operate such accessories as fuel pumps, air pumps, and generators. These accessories mount on pads on the accessory-drive gearbox.
Industry:Aviation
A portion of an Instrument Landing System (ILS). The glide slope is a radio beam extending upward at angle of approximately 2 1/2° from the approach end of an instrument runway. The glide slope provides the vertical path for the aircraft to follow when making an ILS approach along the localizer path. The horizontal needle of the cross-pointer indicator (the ILS indicator) shows the pilot the relative position of the aircraft as it descends along the glide slope. The glide slope is sometimes called the glide path.
Industry:Aviation
A portion of the automatic flight control system that has inputs from the aircraft control surfaces and the engine controls, and outputs to the engine indicating and crew alerting system and the flight management computer.
Industry:Aviation
A positive ion that moves toward the cathode in the process of electrolysis.
Industry:Aviation
A positively charged nuclear particle having the same mass as the nucleus of a helium atom. Alpha particles consist of two protons and two neutrons and are emitted at a high speed in certain types of radioactivity.
Industry:Aviation
