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Dealing with vehicles or machines used in flight or propulsion through the air.
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rosette weld
Aviation; Aeronautics
A method of securing one steel structural tube inside another. Small holes are drilled in the outer tube, and the inner tube is welded to it around the circumference of the holes. ...
inductive tuning
Aviation; Aeronautics
A method of selecting the frequency to which a radio-frequency circuit is resonant by changing the inductance in a tuned circuit. The resonant frequency of an L-C circuit (a ...
composite separation
Aviation; Aeronautics
A method of separating aircraft in a composite route system where, by management of route and altitude assignments, a combination of half the lateral minimum specified for the ...
centrifuging
Aviation; Aeronautics
A method of separating liquids which have different densities by spinning them in a centrifuge.
null balance
Aviation; Aeronautics
A method of setting one voltage exactly equal to another. When no current flows between the two voltages, as indicated by a sensitive current-measuring instrument, the two ...
orthographic projection
Aviation; Aeronautics
A method of showing all the sides of an object by projecting straight lines from the object to the drawing surface. An orthographic projection of a solid object requires six ...
bumping
Aviation; Aeronautics
A method of shrinking or stretching sheet metal into compound curves by hand-hammering it into a sandbag or into or around wood or metal forming blocks.
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