Powerplant

Powerplant

The complete installation of an aircraft engine, propeller, and all accessories needed for its proper function.

Industry: Aviation

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eutectic

Aviation; Aircraft maintenance

An alloy or solution that has the lowest possible constant melting point.

ratiometer indicator

Aviation; Aircraft maintenance

An analog temperature measuring instrument in which the pointer deflection is proportional to the ratio between the current flowing in an internal reference circuit and that flowing through the ...

dual-spool gas turbine engine

Aviation; Aircraft maintenance

An axial-flow turbine engine that has two compressors, each driven by its own stage or stages of turbines.

An eccentric, or lobe, on a rotating shaft that changes rotary motion into linear motion. A cam is mounted on the magnet shaft in a magneto to push upward on the insulated breaker point to separate, ...

bungee cord

Aviation; Aircraft maintenance

An elastic cord made of small strips of rubber encased in a loosely braided cloth tube that holds and protects the rubber, yet allows it to stretch. The energy in a stretched bungee cord may be used ...