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Aerospace
Industry that includes methods of travel and spacecraft for navigating the air or space.
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centrifugal-flow compressor
Aerospace; Control systems
One with an impeller (rotor), stator, and compressor manifold. The rotor revolves at high speed drawing air into the blades. Centrifugal force accelerates the air, and it moves ...
centrifugal twisting movement
Aerospace; Control systems
Force that tends to streamline rotating blades with the plane of rotation.
chord line
Aerospace; Control systems
Imaginary line drawn between the leading and trailing edges of an airfoil.
combustion
Aerospace; Control systems
Process of burning the fuel-air mixture in a gas turbine engine.
combustion chamber
Aerospace; Control systems
Part of a turbine engine in which the propulsive power is developed by combustion of the injected fuel and the expansive force of the resultinggases.
combustion chamber liner
Aerospace; Control systems
Engine part usually constructed of welded high-nickel steel, subjected to flame of extremely high temperature. It is behind the compressor and receives the compressed air which is ...
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