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Airframe
Airframe construction features, assembly and rigging, fabric covering, structural repairs, and aircraft welding.
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tailets
Aviation; Aircraft maintenance
Small vertical surfaces mounted underside of the horizontal stabilizer of some airplanes to increase the directional stability.
arcing
Aviation; Aircraft maintenance
Sparking between a commutator and brush or between switch contacts that is caused by induced current when a circuit is broken.
ribbon direction
Aviation; Aircraft maintenance
The direction in a piece of honeycomb material that is parallel to the length of the strips of material that make up the core.
single-acting actuator
Aviation; Aircraft maintenance
A linear hydraulic or pneumatic actuator that uses fluid power for movement in one direction and a spring force for its return.
tractor powerplant
Aviation; Aircraft maintenance
An airplane powerplant in which the propeller is mounted in the front, and its thrust pulls the airplane rather than pushes it.
oscilloscope
Aviation; Aircraft maintenance
An electrical instrument that displays on the face of a cathode-ray tube the waveform of the electrical signal it is measuring.
longitudinal axis
Aviation; Aircraft maintenance
An imaginary line, passing through the center of gravity of an airplane, and extending lengthwise through it from nose to tail.
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