- 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 ...
Steel alloys used to make metal-cutting tools. These alloys retain their strength and hardness when operating at high temperatures.
Industry:Aviation
Steel containing between 0.05 and 0.25 percent carbon. Mild steel is used for applications where high strength and light weight are not required.
Industry:Aviation
Steel in which carbon is the chief, or principal, alloying agent. Low-carbon steel which, containing less than 0.20% carbon, is relatively soft and weak, but high-carbon steel containing up to about 0.95% carbon can be hardened until it is very strong, but also very brittle.
Industry:Aviation
Steel into which certain chemical elements have been mixed. Alloy steel has different characteristics from those of simple carbon steel.
Industry:Aviation
Steel pads riveted to the surface of the stationary disks of a multiple-disk brake. These pads wear away by the abrasive action of the sintered material on the rotating disks as the brake is used. It is more economical to replace the wear pads than to replace an entire disk.
Industry:Aviation
Steel that contains at least 0.50% carbon. High-carbon steel can be hardened to increase its strength, but this causes it to become brittle.
Industry:Aviation
Steel that has been heated red-hot and then quenched in brine, water, or oil. Hardened steel is strong but brittle.
Industry:Aviation
Steel whose tensile strength can be increased by proper heat treatment to between 50,000 and 100,000 pounds per square inch.
Industry:Aviation
Still, not moving static balance (aircraft control surface). A condition of balance of an aircraft control surface in which the surface balances about its hinge line. Lead weights are often installed in parts of the surface ahead of the hinge line to balance the surface. Controls are statically balanced to prevent control-surface flutter.
Industry:Aviation
STOL performance of an aircraft is the ability of the aircraft to take off and clear a 50-foot obstruction in a distance of 1,500 feet from the beginning the takeoff run. It must also be able to stop within 1,500 feet after crossing over a 50-foot obstacle on landing.
“Stop altitude squawk” (air traffic control). A phrase used by ATC to inform a pilot to turn off the automatic altitude reporting feature of his transponder. This phrase is used when the verbally reported altitude varies 300 feet or more from the automatic altitude report.
Industry:Aviation
