- 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 coastal breeze blowing from land to sea. Land breezes, which normally blow at night, are caused by a temperature difference when the sea surface is warmer than the adjacent land.
Land breezes alternate with sea breezes, which blow inland during the day when the sea surface temperature is cooler than the land.
Industry:Aviation
A coastal breeze blowing from sea to land. Sea breezes are caused by the temperature difference when the land surface is warmer than the sea surface.
Industry:Aviation
A coat of finishing material sprayed on a surface and allowed to dry until the solvents evaporate. As soon as the solvents evaporate from the tack coat, a wet, full-bodied coat of the material is sprayed over it.
Industry:Aviation
A coat of heavy-bodied surfacer material sprayed over a surface to be painted. After the sanding coat has thoroughly dried, it is sanded to give a smooth surface over which the subsequent coats of finishing material are applied.
Industry:Aviation
A coat of lacquer or dope in which some of the thinner is replaced with an equal amount of retarder.
When this mixture is sprayed over a blushed surface, the thinner softens and restores the blushed material. The retarder slows the drying so the new film will not blush.
Industry:Aviation
A cockpit flight control used on some of the fly-by-wire equipped airplanes. The stick is mounted rigidly on the side console of the cockpit, and pressures exerted on the stick by the pilot produce electrical signals that are sent to the computer that flies the airplane.
Industry:Aviation
A coil of insulated wire wound around a laminated steel pole shoe in an electrical motor or generator. Each motor or generator has two or more field coils that may be connected either in parallel or in series with the armature.
Direct current flowing through the field coils of a generator produces magnetic flux which induces a voltage in the conductors of the armature as they pass in front of the pole shoes. The amount of voltage induced in the armature is determined by the strength of the magnetic field. A voltage regulator is normally used to control the amount of current flowing in the field coils, and thus the strength of the magnetic field.
In a motor, torque is produced by the reaction between the magnetic flux produced by current flowing in the field coils and the flux produced by current flowing through the armature coils.
Industry:Aviation
A coil of wire used to produce inductance in an electrical circuit. The amount of inductance is determined by the number of turns of wire in the coil, by the ratio of the diameter of the coil to its length, and by the type of material used as the core of the coil. Inductance is measured in henries, millihenries, or microhenries.
Industry:Aviation
A coil or a piece of resistance wire connected across a source of electrical energy. The resistance of the element is high enough that current flowing through it produces enough heat to cause it to glow red-hot.
Industry:Aviation
A coil spring that is formed into a ring. This type of spring, also called a garter spring, is used to hold ring-type carbon seals tightly against a rotating shaft.
Industry:Aviation
