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Aviation

Dealing with vehicles or machines used in flight or propulsion through the air.

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centrifugal compressor

Aviation; Aircraft maintenance

A type of compressor that uses a vaned plate like impeller. Air is taken into the center, or eye, of the impeller and slung outward by centrifugal force into a diffuser where its ...

axial-flow compressor

Aviation; Aircraft maintenance

A type of compressor used in gas turbine engines. Air passes through the compressor in essentially a straight line, parallel to the axis of the compressor. The compressor is made ...

closed-loop control

Aviation; Aircraft maintenance

A type of control in which part of the output is fed back to the input. This allows the input to continually compare the command signals with the output to determine the extent to ...

interference fit

Aviation; Aircraft maintenance

A type of fit used when assembling certain mechanical devices. The hole is made smaller than the part that fits into it. The material containing the hole is heated to expand the ...

turbofan engine

Aviation; Aircraft maintenance

A type of gas turbine engine that has a set of lengthened blades on the low-pressure compressor or low-pressure turbine. Air moved by these special blades bypasses the core engine ...

reciprocating engine

Aviation; Aircraft maintenance

A type of heat engine that changes the reciprocating (back-and-forth) motion of pistons inside the cylinders into rotary motion of a crank-shaft.

planetary gears

Aviation; Aircraft maintenance

A type of large-ratio reduction gearing. A series of small planetary gears are mounted on a spider attached to the output shaft. The planetary gears rotate between a fixed sun ...