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Powerplant
The complete installation of an aircraft engine, propeller, and all accessories needed for its proper function.
Industry: Aviation
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splined shaft land
Aviation; Aircraft maintenance
The portion of a splined shaft between the grooves.
odometer
Aviation; Aircraft maintenance
The portion of an automobile speedometer that indicates the distance traveled.
tail pipe
Aviation; Aircraft maintenance
The portion of the exhaust system of a gas turbine engine through which the gases leave. The tail pipe is often called the exhaust duct, or exhaust pipe.
valve overlap
Aviation; Aircraft maintenance
The portion of the operating cycle of a fourstroke-cycle reciprocating engine during which both the intake and exhaust valves are off of their seats at the same time.
bluckets
Aviation; Aircraft maintenance
The portions of aft-fan blades that are in the exhaust of the core engine. Bluckets drive the fan from energy received from hot gases leaving the core engine.
full-register position
Aviation; Aircraft maintenance
The position of a magnet in a magneto when its poles are aligned with the pole shoes and the maximum amount of magnetic flux is flowing through the magnetic circuit.
