Airframe

Airframe

Airframe construction features, assembly and rigging, fabric covering, structural repairs, and aircraft welding.

Industry: Aviation

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fiber stop nut

Aviation; Aircraft maintenance

A form of a self-locking nut that has a fiber insert crimped into a recess above the threads. The hole in the insert is slightly smaller than the minor diameter of the threads. When the nut is ...

The registered trade name for a particular style of edge-type fluid filter. Cuno filters are made up of a stack of thin metal disks that are separated by thin scraper blades. Contaminants collect on ...

energizing brake

Aviation; Aircraft maintenance

A brake that uses the momentum of the aircraft to increase its effectiveness by wedging the shoe against the brake drum. Energizing brakes are also called servo brakes. A single-servo brake is ...

automatic pilot

Aviation; Aircraft maintenance

An automatic flight control device that controls an aircraft about one or more of its three axes. The primary purpose of an autopilot is to relieve the pilot of the control of the aircraft during ...

autopilot

Aviation; Aircraft maintenance

An automatic flight control device that controls an aircraft about one or more of its three axes. The primary purpose of an autopilot is to relieve the pilot of the control of the aircraft during ...

shuttle valve

Aviation; Aircraft maintenance

An automatic selector valve mounted on critical components such as landing gear actuation cylinders and brake cylinders. For normal operation, system fluid flows into the actuator through the shuttle ...

selcal system

Aviation; Aircraft maintenance

Selective calling system. Each aircraft operated by an airline is assigned a particular four-tone audio combination for identification purposes. A ground station keys the signal whenever contact with ...