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A moment divided by a constant such as 100, 1,000, or 10,000. The purpose of using a moment index is to simplify weight and balance computations of airplanes where heavy items and long arms result in large, unmanageable numbers.
Industry:Aviation
Stability about an aircraft’s vertical axis. Also called yawing or directional stability.
Industry:Aviation
Adjusting the aircraft control surfaces (including flaps and landing gear) in a manner that will achieve a specified attitude.
Industry:Aviation
Flight regime in which flight at a higher airspeed requires a lower power setting and a lower airspeed requires a higher power setting in order to maintain altitude.
Industry:Aviation
A controllable-pitch propeller whose pitch is automatically varied in flight by a governor to maintain a constant rpm in spite of varying air loads.
Industry:Aviation
A shell-like fuselage design in which the stressed outer skin is used to support the majority of imposed stresses. Monocoque fuselage design may include bulkheads but not stringers.
Industry:Aviation
A band of radio frequencies falling between 30 and 300 MHz.
Industry:Aviation
One of the major components of a flight director system, it provides steering commands that the pilot (or the autopilot, if coupled) follows.
Industry:Aviation
The “regions of normal and reversed command” refers to the relationship between speed and the power required to maintain or change that speed in flight.
Industry:Aviation
System that supplies a constant supply of pure oxygen to a rebreather bag that dilutes the pure oxygen with exhaled gases and thus supplies a healthy mix of oxygen and ambient air to the mask. Primarily used in passenger cabins of commercial airliners.
Industry:Aviation
