- 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 ...
An improper start of a gas turbine engine in which the engine starts, but fails to accelerate to a self-sustaining speed.
Industry:Aviation
An impurity that pollutes. Dirt and water are contaminants that pollute aircraft fuel.
Industry:Aviation
An incandescent lamp installed in series with an electrical load to maintain a constant current.
If the current increases, the filament gets hotter and its resistance increases. This brings the current back to its original value.
Industry:Aviation
An incandescent lamp with a tungsten filament and a quartz envelope. The envelope is filled with iodine vapor that reacts with the vaporized tungsten to prevent the tungsten vapors from darkening the quartz envelope.
Industry:Aviation
An increase in lift of an aerodynamic flying machine (airplane or helicopter) flying very near the ground. This additional lift is caused by an effective increase in angle of attack without the accompanying increase in induced drag and is caused by the deflection of the downwashed air. Ground effect disappears when the flying machine is about a half wing span or half rotor span above the surface.
Industry:Aviation
An increase in temperature with height. An inversion is a reversal of the normal decrease in temperature with height in the troposphere.
Industry:Aviation
An increase in the central pressure of a meteorological pressure system. Filling, which is the opposite of deepening, is more commonly applied to a low, rather than a high.
Industry:Aviation
An independent pattern formed when two regular geometric patterns are superimposed (one placed on top of the other), with the one on top not exactly lined up with the one on the bottom.
A moiré pattern is formed when a piece of transparent film having a series of closely spaced straight lines is placed at a slight angle over a print of the same size lines with the same spacing.
Industry:Aviation
