- 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 thin, sheet metal, airfoil-shaped covering over the shank of a propeller blade. Cuffs force air through the cowling of an air-cooled engine to improve its cooling.
Industry:Aviation
A thin-wall tube installed in an aircraft to carry heated or cooled air for distribution at the proper locations.
Industry:Aviation
A thread-, or filament-like corrosion which forms on aluminum skins beneath a dense paint film. Filiform corrosion gets its name from the fact that it grows in shape of a thread, or a filament.
Industry:Aviation
A threaded bronze or steel bushing screwed and shrunk into an opening in the cast aluminum cylinder head of an aircraft engine. The spark plugs screw into the bushings which protect the soft aluminum from damage when the spark plugs are changed.
Industry:Aviation
A threaded fastener used to attach components to an engine crankcase or other type of casting. A stud used to fasten a cylinder to a cast aluminum alloy crankcase has threads on both ends. The threads that screw into the soft aluminum crankcase are coarse, and the threads on which a nut is screwed to clamp the cylinder base to the crankcase are fine.
Industry:Aviation
A threaded fastener which has an enlarged head on one end and threads on the other. Bolts used in aircraft normally have hexagonal heads, but some high-strength bolts have a round head with a hexagonal-shaped hole. These special bolts are turned with an Allen wrench.
Bolts fasten pieces of material together by clamping them between the bolt head and a nut screwed onto the bolt threads.
Industry:Aviation
A threaded fastener whose shank passes through a clear hole in one piece of material and screws into threads cut into the second piece.
The head of the cap screw, which is turned with a wrench, clamps the two pieces of material together.
Industry:Aviation
A threaded, cone-shaped point on self-tapping sheet metal screws that are installed through holes in several sheets of thin sheet metal.
Industry:Aviation
A three dimensional volume of airspace which provides protection for the transition of aircraft to and from the runway. The OFZ clearing standard precludes taxiing and parked airplanes and object penetrations, except for frangible navaid locations that are fixed by function. Additionally, vehicles, equipment, and personnel may be authorized by air traffic control to enter the area using the provisions of FAA Order 7110.65, Air Traffic Control, paragraph 3-1-5. The runway OFZ, and where applicable, the inner-approach OFZ and the inner-transitional OFZ, comprise the OFZ.
Industry:Aviation
A three-dimensional map in which mountains and valleys are formed so they show the way the land actually looks.
Industry:Aviation
