- 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 cylindrical metal clamp attached to the back of an instrument panel aligned with the hole through which an instrument fits. The instrument is installed from the front of the panel by sliding it through the hole and the clamp and tightening the clamp by means of a screw on the front of the panel.
Industry:Aviation
A cylindrical tube extending from a fluid reservoir to a location that is convenient to fill the reservoir. Some hydraulic reservoirs and fuel tanks are installed inside an aircraft structure in a location where servicing is difficult. A filler neck is installed on these reservoirs to allow them to be filled from outside the aircraft.
Industry:Aviation
A daily (except weekends and Federal holidays) publication of flight information appropriate to aeronautical charts, aeronautical publications, Notices to Airmen, or other media, serving the purpose of providing operational flight data essential to safe and efficient aircraft operations.
Industry:Aviation
A daily publication of flight information appropriate to aeronautical charts, aeronautical publications, Notices to Airmen, or other media serving the purpose of providing operational flight data essential to safe and efficient aircraft operations.
Industry:Aviation
A damaged head on a chisel or punch caused by hammering on the tool. Mushroomed heads are dangerous, because a piece of the metal can be easily broken off and cause injury. A mushroomed head must be ground off of a tool as soon as it forms.
Industry:Aviation
A dark brown, tetravalent (having four valence electrons), nonmetallic crystalline chemical element. Silicon’s symbol is Si, its atomic number is 14, and its atomic weight is 28.086. Silicon is the second most abundant chemical element in nature (oxygen is the most abundant). Because of the ease with which silicon unites with oxygen to form silicon dioxide (sand and quartz), it is never found in nature in its pure state.
Silicon is used to make semiconductor diodes, transistors, and all forms of integrated circuit devices.
Industry:Aviation
A DC electric motor whose field coils are connected in parallel with the armature. A parallel-wound motor has a low starting torque, but it operates at a relatively constant speed.
Industry:Aviation
A decimal fraction which can be expressed as a definite number. The fraction 2/5 produces a terminating decimal, 0.4. A fraction that cannot be expressed as a definite number is called a repeating decimal. The fraction 1/3 is a repeating decimal, and it is equivalent to 0.333333333… .
Industry:Aviation
A decision based on logic. This is the type of decision made by a digital computer when there are two possible conditions or alternatives.
If a computer is instructed to count ten items and then turn off the power to a motor, it will count one item and then ask for a logic decision to be made: “Have ten items been counted?” If the answer is NO, the computer will make the logic decision to count again. After the tenth item has been counted and the computer asks the question “have ten items been counted?” the answer is now YES, and the computer will make the logic decision to turn off the power to the motor.
A decision point where the computer is asked to make a logic decision is shown on a flowchart as a diamond.
Industry:Aviation
