- 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 tab installed on the trailing edge of a stabilator. The tab automatically moves in the same direction as the stabilator to produce a stabilizing aerodynamic force that tries to bring the surface back to a streamline position. An antiservo tab is also called an antibalance tab.
Industry:Aviation
A table listing all the chemical elements, arranged in horizontal rows and vertical columns to show the similarities of the properties of the elements.
Industry:Aviation
A takeoff or proposed takeoff on a runway from an intersection.
Industry:Aviation
A takeoff terminated prematurely when it is determined that some condition exists which makes takeoff or further flight dangerous.
Industry:Aviation
A tall rectangular instrument that displays the quantity of the parameter being measured by a movable strip of colored tape. The presentation resembles a vertical bar graph.
Industry:Aviation
A tall, straight spruce tree that grows on the northern Pacific coast of North America. Sitka spruce wood is strong, lightweight, and straight grained, and is used as the reference to which all other aircraft structural woods are compared.
Industry:Aviation
A tapered end of a duct through which fluid flows. The area of a converging nozzle decreases in the direction the fluid is flowing, and when fluid flows through a converging nozzle at a subsonic speed, it speeds up. The area of a diverging nozzle increases in the direction the fluid is flowing, and when fluid flows through a diverging nozzle at a subsonic speed, it slows down.
Industry:Aviation
A tapered shaft or spindle that fits into a hole. A mandrel is used to support and center a device or piece of material so it can be machined in a lathe or balanced on a balancing machine.
Industry:Aviation
A tapered shank sticking out from the blade of a knife or a file. The handle of the knife or file is mounted on the tang.
Industry:Aviation
A technique used to direct aircraft out of the approach stream. In the context of close parallel operations, a breakout is used to direct threatened aircraft away from a deviating aircraft.
Industry:Aviation
