Aeronautics

Aeronautics

The branch of science that deals with flight aerodynamics and with the operation of all types of aircraft.

Industry: Aviation

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transceiver

Aviation; Aeronautics

A piece of radio communications equipment in which all of the circuits for the receiver and the transmitter are contained in the same housing.

A piece of sheet metal used to strengthen and stiffen an aircraft skin at the location some component is to be attached. A doubler is normally riveted to the inside of the aircraft skin where a radio ...

magnetic shunt

Aviation; Aeronautics

A piece of soft iron placed across the air gap in a magnet used in an electrical measuring instrument to vary the amount of magnetic flux across the gap. The permeability of soft iron is much higher ...

magnet keeper

Aviation; Aeronautics

A piece of soft iron placed across the poles of a horseshoe permanent magnet when the magnet is not in use. The permeability of the soft iron is much greater than that of the air between the poles, ...

keeper

Aviation; Aeronautics

A piece of soft iron placed across the poles of a magnet when the magnet is not being used. Magnetic energy is used to force lines of flux through the air between the poles, and the loss of this ...

chamois skin

Aviation; Aeronautics

A piece of soft, pliable leather, from the skin of a chamois, a goat-like antelope. Chamois skin is used to filter gasoline. Gasoline will pass through a chamois skin, but water will not. Gasoline ...