Powerplant

Powerplant

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

Industry: Aviation

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viscosimeter

Aviation; Aircraft maintenance

An instrument used to measure the viscosity of a liquid. The time required for a given volume of liquid at a specified temperature to flow through a calibrated orifice is used to indicate the ...

automatic intake valve

Aviation; Aircraft maintenance

An intake valve opened by low pressure created inside the cylinder as the piston moves down. There is no mechanical means of opening it.

An internal combustion engine that burns its fuel in a constant-pressure cycle and uses the expansion of the air to drive a turbine which, in turn, rotates a compressor. Energy beyond that needed to ...

spectrometric oil analysis program (SOAP)

Aviation; Aircraft maintenance

An oil analysis program in which a sample of oil is burned in an electric arc and an analysis is made of the wavelength composition of the resulting light. Each chemical element in the oil, when ...