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Dealing with vehicles or machines used in flight or propulsion through the air.
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integral fuel tank
Aviation; Aircraft maintenance
An aircraft fuel tank made by sealing off part of the structure so fuel can be carried in the structure itself.
bearing journal
Aviation; Aircraft maintenance
A hardened and polished surface on a rotating shaft that rides in a plain bearing.
sludge
Aviation; Aircraft maintenance
A heavy contaminant that forms in an aircraft engine lubricating oil because of oxidation and chemical decomposition of the oil.
worm gear
Aviation; Aircraft maintenance
A helical gear mounted on a shaft. The worm meshes with a spur gear whose teeth are cut at an angle to its face. A worm gear is an irreversible mechanism. The rotation of the ...
laser tachometer
Aviation; Aircraft maintenance
A highly accurate tachometer that shines a laser beam on a rotating element that has reflective tape or a contrasting mark. The reflected laser beam is converted into electrical ...
vortex dissipater
Aviation; Aircraft maintenance
A high-velocity stream of compressor bleed air blown from a nozzle into an area where vortices are likely to form. Vortex dissipaters destroy the vortices that would otherwise ...
distributor
Aviation; Aircraft maintenance
A high-voltage selector switch that is geardriven from the shaft of the rotating magnet in a magneto. The distributor rotor picks up the high voltage from the secondary winding of ...
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