- 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 ...
STOVL performance of an aircraft is the ability of the aircraft to take off and clear a 50-foot obstruction in a distance of 1,500 feet from the beginning of the takeoff run. The aircraft can land vertically, with no forward speed.
Industry:Aviation
Stranded steel cable used to actuate the controls of an aircraft. Aircraft control cable is made of either stainless steel or galvanized carbon steel. There are three types of aircraft control cable: nonflexible, flexible, and extra-flexible cable.
Nonflexible cable is made of seven (1 x 7) or 19 (1 x 19) strands of steel wire.
Flexible cable is made of seven strands of wire, with each strand having seven separate wires. This is called 7 x 7 cable.
Extra-flexible cable, the one most generally used, is made of seven strands of wire, with each strand made of 19 small wires. Extra-flexible cable is called 7 x 19 cable and is used in locations where the cable must pass over a pulley.
Industry:Aviation
Streams of electrons emitted by the cathode in a special form of electron tube called a cathode-ray tube (CRT). These electrons are accelerated by the attraction of a positive voltage on special grids called accelerator grids. The cathode rays strike a phosphorescent material that covers the inside of the face of the tube, and when they strike it, the material glows.
Cathode-ray tubes are used as the display in computers and oscilloscopes.
Industry:Aviation
Strips of aircraft fabric laid under the reinforcing tape before the fabric is stitched to an aircraft wing.
Industry:Aviation
Strips of aircraft fabric that are doped over all seams and all places where the fabric is stitched to the aircraft structure and over wing leading edges where abrasive wear occurs. The edges of surface tape are pinked, or notched, to keep them from raveling before the dope is applied.
Industry:Aviation
Struts located between the two wings of a biplane, usually near the wing tips. Interplane struts attach to the front and rear wing spars and are normally N-shaped or I-shaped.
Industry:Aviation
Successive operations involving takeoffs and landings or low approaches where the aircraft does not exit the traffic pattern.
Industry:Aviation
Surfaces on either the wings or fuselage of an airplane that can be extended in flight to create enough parasite drag to keep the airplane from reaching an excessive speed in a dive.
Dive flaps, also called speed brakes or dive brakes, are designed to produce a minimum amount of pitch change when they extend.
Industry:Aviation
Symbols made up of all of the letters in our alphabet, numerals, punctuation marks, and certain other special symbols.
Industry:Aviation
