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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fuselage stations (FS)

Aviation; Aircraft maintenance

Reference locations, usually given in inches, used to determine forward and aft positions on an aircraft. FS − 0 is the datum.

heat

Aviation; Aircraft maintenance

The total kinetic energy of the molecules of any substance.

Henry

Aviation; Aircraft maintenance

The basic unit of inductance, symbolized with the letter H. An electric circuit has an inductance of one henry when current changing at the rate of one ampere per second induces a voltage of one volt ...