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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discontinuity

Aviation; Aircraft maintenance

An interruption in the normal physical structure or configuration of a part, such as a crack, forging lap, seam, inclusion, porosity, and the like. A discontinuity may or may not affect the ...

dissimilar metal corrosion

Aviation; Aircraft maintenance

Caused by contact between dissimilar metal parts in the presence of a conductor.

dividend

Aviation; Aircraft maintenance

In a division problem, the number to be divided by the divisor. In 6 ÷ 2 = 3, the dividend is 6.

division

Aviation; Aircraft maintenance

The process of finding how many times one number (the divisor) is contained in another number (the dividend).

divisor

Aviation; Aircraft maintenance

In a division problem, the number by which dividend is to be divided. In 6 ÷ 2 = 3, the divisor is 2.

doping

Aviation; Aircraft maintenance

The process by which small amounts of additives called impurities are added to the semiconductor material to increase their current flow by adding a few electrons or a few holes.

dynamic stability

Aviation; Aircraft maintenance

The property of an aircraft that causes it, when disturbed from straight-and level flight, to develop forces or moments that restore the original condition of straight and level.