- 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 ...
The capacitance inside a bipolar transistor caused by the junction between the P-material and the N-material.
Industry:Aviation
The capacity for performing work. Something that changes, or tries to change, matter. There are two basic types of energy: potential, or stored energy, and kinetic energy, associated with motion.
Common forms of energy are: chemical, electrical, light, and heat. We are able to convert energy between these different forms, but can neither create nor destroy energy.
Industry:Aviation
The card of the RMI acts as gyro-stabilized magnetic compass, and shows the magnetic heading the aircraft is flying. A pointer gives the relative bearing between the nose of the aircraft and the radio station being received on the navigation radio.
Industry:Aviation
The cause of a voltage being induced in one circuit by a changing current in another circuit when there are no electrical connections between the two. Changing current causes lines of magnetic flux to expand and contract. When this changing flux cuts across the conductors in another circuit, mutual induction causes a voltage to be induced in it.
Industry:Aviation
The cause of the unequal distribution of radio-frequency alternating current throughout a conductor. AC at radio frequencies tends to have a greater current density (more current flow) on the surface of a conductor than it does near the center. Because of skin effect, some conductors used to carry high radio-frequency AC are hollow tubes.
Industry:Aviation
The cell voltage of an aircraft battery agreed upon by the battery manufacturing industry to indicate when a battery is discharged.
A closed-circuit voltage of one volt per cell is the end voltage of a nickel-cadmium aircraft battery. When the cell voltage gets down to one volt, the battery is considered to be discharged.
Industry:Aviation
The center of gravity of an aircraft when it contains only the items specified in aircraft empty weight.
Industry:Aviation
The center of mass of a body. It is the point about which all the mass can be considered to be concentrated.
Industry:Aviation
The central component of a reciprocating engine, a high-strength, alloy steel shaft with hardened and polished bearing surfaces that ride in bearings in the crankcase.
Offset throws are formed on the crankshaft on which crankpins are ground and polished. Connecting rods, driven by the pistons, ride on the crankpins and change the in-and-out motion of the pistons into rotation of the crankshaft.
The propeller of an airplane or the rotor system transmission of a helicopter is driven by the crankshaft.
Industry:Aviation
