- Industria: Aviation
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Aviation Supplies & Academics, Inc. (ASA) develops and markets aviation supplies, software, and books for pilots, flight instructors, flight engineers, airline professionals, air traffic controllers, flight attendants, aviation technicians and enthusiasts. Established in 1947, ASA also provides ...
A petroleum oil from which some of the solid hydrocarbons, or waxes, have been removed in the refining process.
Industry:Aviation
A petroleum product similar to gasoline and kerosine. Aliphatic naphtha is used as a cleaning agent to remove grease from a surface prior to painting.
Industry:Aviation
A petroleum product similar to naphtha. Varsol is used in aircraft maintenance shops as a degreaser.
Industry:Aviation
A petroleum product whose boiling point is between that of gasoline and kerosine. Aliphatic naphtha is used as a cleaning solvent and as an ingredient in certain finishing materials.
Industry:Aviation
A petroleum product, similar to naphtha, used as a solvent and a cleaning fluid.
Industry:Aviation
A photoelectric device that changes its resistance as the amount of light striking it changes. When the cell is in total darkness, its resistance is maximum, and as light falls on it, its resistance decreases.
Photoconductive cells using either cadmium sulfide or cadmium selenide as the active elements are called light-dependent resistors (LDRs), and one of their uses is in photographic light meters.
Industry:Aviation
A photographic method of record storage in which information to be stored is photographed and printed on sheets of photographic film called fiche. Different formats, ranging from 24 pages to 288 pages of information, can be printed on a single fiche. Micro-fiche is read in an enlarging machine, called a reader, that displays the page of information on a screen that looks much like a television screen. Some readers have a built-in printer that can produce a full-size printed copy of the information.
Industry:Aviation
A photographic method of record storage in which the information to be stored is photographed, one page at a time, on a long roll of 35-millimeter film. The film, called microfilm, is put into a reader which projects the image on the back of a translucent screen that looks much like a television screen. The image of the page shows up in a size that is larger than the original page.
Industry:Aviation
A phrase that, when used in conjunction with altitude assignments, means that ATC has offered the pilot the option of starting climb or descent whenever he wishes and conducting the climb or descent at any rate he wishes.
The pilot may temporarily level off at any intermediate altitude. However, once an altitude has been vacated, he may not return to that altitude.
Industry:Aviation
A physical change taking place within a material in which heat energy is neither added to the material nor taken from it.
For example, if a container of gas is compressed, with no heat energy added to it and none taken from it, the gas will become hotter — its temperature will rise. This is an adiabatic change.
Industry:Aviation
