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The ratio between distance traveled and altitude gained.
Industry:Aviation
Techniques designed to reduce pilot errors and manage errors that do occur utilizing cockpit human resources. The assumption is that errors are going to happen in a complex system with error-prone humans.
Industry:Aviation
See LIFT COEFFICIENT.
Industry:Aviation
The flight regime where any increase in airspeed will induce high speed mach buffet and any decrease in airspeed will induce low speed mach buffet.
Industry:Aviation
The section of the engine into which fuel is injected and burned.
Industry:Aviation
The common frequency used by airport traffic to announce position reports in the vicinity of the airport.
Industry:Aviation
An aircraft with retractable landing gear, flaps, and a controllable-pitch propeller, or is turbine powered.
Industry:Aviation
1. In a reciprocating engine, the ratio of the volume of an engine cylinder with the piston at the bottom center to the volume with the piston at top center. 2. In a turbine engine, the ratio of the pressure of the air at the discharge to the pressure of air at the inlet.
Industry:Aviation
See BLEED AIR.
Industry:Aviation
See BLEED VALVE.
Industry:Aviation