- 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 ...
Droplets of a liquid which are so small they float, or remain suspended, in the air. The droplets making up the atmospheric condition we call mist are larger than the droplets making up haze and smaller than those making up fog.
Industry:Aviation
Dust particles picked up locally from the surface and blown about in clouds or sheets.
Industry:Aviation
Earphones in which alternating current distorts a piezoelectric crystal. The crystal is attached to a diaphragm in such a way that, as the crystal distorts, the diaphragm produces changes in air pressure (sound waves). The sound waves duplicate the changes in the alternating current.
Industry:Aviation
Earth is the term used in the United Kingdom for the electrical reference called “ground” in the United States.
Industry:Aviation
Easily ignited. Because the prefix “in” quite often means “not able to,” the word inflammable could be thought to mean “is not easy to ignite.” Because of this possibility for misunderstanding, the word inflammable has been replaced in many instances with the word “flammable.”
Industry:Aviation
Easily ignited. Flammable replaces the older term inflammable which can be misinterpreted to mean not flammable.
Industry:Aviation
Electrical charges that move about within a semiconductor material. Holes are positive mobile charges, and they drift within the material toward a negative electrical charge. Electrons are negative mobile charges, and they drift within the material toward a positive electrical charge.
Industry:Aviation
Electrical charges within a semiconductor diode that result when the mobile charges are pulled away from the PN junction in the diode. When the free electrons in the N-material are drawn away from the junction, a positive ionic charge is left. And when the holes in the P-material are drawn away from the junction, a negative ionic charge is left. It is the ionic charges in a semiconductor diode that produce the barrier voltage.
Industry:Aviation
Electrical components that can operate equally well on alternating current or direct current.
Industry:Aviation
Electrical contacts in the primary circuit of an aircraft magneto that are opened by a cam turned by the engine. The breaker points are timed to open at the instant the ignition spark should occur. When the points open, the primary current stops flowing, and its magnetic field collapses.
The lines of flux from the collapsing primary magnetic field cut across the many turns of the secondary winding and induce a high voltage in the secondary circuit. It is this high secondary voltage that causes a spark to jump across the gap in the spark plug.
Industry:Aviation
