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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
countersink
Aviation; Aircraft maintenance
A tool that cuts a cone-shaped depression around a hole in order to allow a rivet or screw to set flush with the surface of the material.
Dalton’s Law
Aviation; Aircraft maintenance
States that a mixture of several gases which do not react chemically exerts a pressure equal to the sum of the pressures which the several gases would exert separately if each were allowed to occupy ...
datum
Aviation; Aircraft maintenance
An imaginary vertical plane or line from which all measurements of arm are taken. The datum is established by the manufacturer. Once the datum has been selected, all moment arms and the location of ...
debonding
Aviation; Aircraft maintenance
Separation of the bond between the skin laminates and the core of a composite structure.
decibels
Aviation; Aircraft maintenance
The unit for measuring sound intensity. One decibel is the smallest change in sound intensity the human ear can detect.
decimal system
Aviation; Aircraft maintenance
The number system, also called the base-ten system, based on the number 10. Consisting of ten symbols, or digits (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9), the main principle is that 10 is considered as a new ...
