- 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 induction coil excited by pulsating DC supplied by the aircraft battery and a vibrator.
Booster coils produce a high voltage, which is directed to an auxiliary trailing finger on the rotor of the magneto distributor. When this high voltage jumps to ground across the electrodes of the spark plug, it produces a hot and late spark for starting the engine.
Industry:Aviation
An induction motor designed to operate on two-phase or three-phase alternating current.
Industry:Aviation
An inductor (coil) with enough inductive reactance at radio frequencies to block the flow of RF alternating current. Either air or a slug of powdered iron may be used as the core of a radio-frequency choke.
Industry:Aviation
An inductor used to impede, or oppose, the changes of pulsating direct current. The opposition caused by a choke is inductive reactance, which produces a back voltage opposing the changing voltage in the pulsations.
Chokes are used with capacitors to make filter circuits to smooth out the voltage variations and change pulsating DC into smooth DC.
Industry:Aviation
An inert gaseous chemical element. Neon’s symbol is Ne, its atomic number is 10, and its atomic weight is 20.183. Neon is widely used in electric signs in which neon gas in glass tubes is ionized. The ionized gas glows with a reddish-orange light.
Industry:Aviation
An inert, colorless, odorless, gaseous chemical element. Xenon’s symbol is Xe, its atomic number is 54, and its atomic weight is 131.30. Xenon is extracted from liquified air, and it is used to fill stroboscopic lamps because it gives off a brilliant flash of light when it is ionized and current flows through it.
Industry:Aviation
An inertia starter for a large reciprocating engine that allows the flywheel to be brought up to speed by either an electric motor or a hand crank.
Industry:Aviation
An in-flight weather advisory message issued only to amend an area forecast concerning weather phenomena of operational interest to all aircraft and potentially hazardous to aircraft having limited capability because of lack of equipment, instrumentation, or pilot qualifications.
AIRMETs cover moderate icing, moderate turbulence, sustained winds of 30 knots or more at the surface, widespread areas of ceiling less than 1,000 feet and/or visibility less than three miles, and extensive mountain obscurement.
Industry:Aviation
An information block placed in the lower right-hand corner of an aircraft drawing. This block includes the part number, the part name, and the names of the engineer, draftsman, and checker.
Industry:Aviation
An in-line or V-type reciprocating engine installed in an aircraft with the crankshaft and crankcase above the cylinders.
Industry:Aviation
