- Industry: Aviation
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Aviation Supplies & Academics, Inc. (ASA) develops and markets aviation supplies, software, and books for pilots, flight instructors, flight engineers, airline professionals, air traffic controllers, flight attendants, aviation technicians and enthusiasts. Established in 1947, ASA also provides ...
Any of several types of devices used to slow or stabilize a body moving through water or air. A drogue parachute is a small parachute which can be opened behind an airplane to slow or stabilize it in flight.
A drogue is also the funnel-shaped device on the end of an inflight refueling hose. The drogue stabilizes the hose and allows the aircraft being refueled to connect its probe into the fueling line.
A sea anchor, which is a canvas bucket with a small opening in its bottom, is also a drogue. A sea anchor is used to stabilize and control the movement of a boat or seaplane.
Industry:Aviation
Any of several types of wheeled platforms used in a maintenance shop to move or store heavy aircraft or engine components.
Industry:Aviation
Any of the basic, or elementary, mechanical devices from which all machines are built. Simple machines include the wheel and axle, the lever, and the inclined plane.
Industry:Aviation
Any of the chemical elements with five valence electrons used to dope silicon or germanium to produce N-type semiconductor material. Phosphorus, arsenic, and antimony are commonly used as donor impurities.
Industry:Aviation
Any of the five chemical elements in Group VII of the periodic table of chemical elements. Fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, and astatine are the halogens.
Industry:Aviation
Any of the various salts of hydrogen cyanide which contain a CN (carbon and nitrogen) group. One of the best known cyanide compounds is sodium cyanide, NaCN, which is used in metal heat treatment. Sodium cyanide is extremely poisonous.
Industry:Aviation
Any of three types of fire extinguishers: vaporizing liquid, carbon dioxide, or dry powder. All three types of fire extinguishers expel the extinguishing agent and blanket the fire with an inert gas to keep oxygen away from it. When a fire can no longer get oxygen, it will go out.
Industry:Aviation
