Aircraft maintenance

Aircraft maintenance

Principles, fundamentals, and technical procedures for aircraft maintenance, including terms on airframe, powerplant ratings, mathematics, aircraft drawings, weight and balance, aircraft materials, processes and tools, physics, electricity, inspection, ground operations, and FAA regulations governing the certification and work of maintenance technicians.

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dew point

Aviation; Aircraft maintenance

The temperature to which humid air must be cooled at constant pressure to become saturated.

dial indicator

Aviation; Aircraft maintenance

Measures variations in a surface by using an accurately machined probe mechanically linked to a circular hand whose movement indicates thousandths of an inch, or is displayed on a liquid crystal ...

diameter if a circle

Aviation; Aircraft maintenance

The length of a line passing directly through the center of a circle. Twice the radius of the circle.

die

Aviation; Aircraft maintenance

Used for cutting external threads on round stock.

difference

Aviation; Aircraft maintenance

The answer to a subtraction problem.

direct current (DC)

Aviation; Aircraft maintenance

Electricity that flows in one direction at all times.

directional stability

Aviation; Aircraft maintenance

Stability about the vertical axis of an aircraft, whereby an aircraft tends to return, on its own, to flight aligned with the relative wind when disturbed from the equilibrium state.