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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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Aircraft maintenance

computer graphics

Aviation; Aircraft maintenance

Drawing with the use of a computer.

conduction

Aviation; Aircraft maintenance

The transfer of heat which requires physical contact between an object that has a large amount of heat energy and one that has a smaller amount of heat energy.

conductor

Aviation; Aircraft maintenance

A material that will carry electric current.

convection

Aviation; Aircraft maintenance

The process by which heat is transferred by movement of a heated fluid (gas or liquid).

corrosion

Aviation; Aircraft maintenance

The deterioration of metal by chemical or electrochemical attack.

cosine (cos)

Aviation; Aircraft maintenance

A trigonometric function comparing two sides of a right triangle as follows: Cos = adjacent side hypotenuse

coulomb

Aviation; Aircraft maintenance

A measure of electrical output. One coulomb is 6.24 × 10 18 electrons.

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