- 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 strong organic fabric made from the fibers of the flax plant. Irish linen is approved as a direct replacement for grade-A cotton fabric as a covering material for aircraft structures.
Industry:Aviation
A strong, brittle, lustrous, silvery-gray, metallic chemical element. Titanium’s symbol is Ti, its atomic number is 22, and its atomic weight is 47.90. Titanium is malleable when it is hot, but is hard and brittle when it is cold. Titanium is used in its pure state or as an alloy with other metals to increase their strength at high temperatures. Titanium is also used in the manufacture of some ceramic components.
Industry:Aviation
A strong, electrically transparent housing, used to enclose a radar antenna and protect it from the wind and weather.
Industry:Aviation
A strong, heavy framework used to hold a component while it is being assembled. Parts are assembled in jigs to assure their interchangeability. Airplane wings, for example, are assembled in jigs, and any wing having a given part number can be interchanged with another wing having the same part number.
If the parts were not assembled in a jig, they might look the same, but they would probably not interchange; the bolt holes would likely not line up.
Industry:Aviation
A strong, heavy plate used in multiple-disk brakes that receives the force from the brake cylinders and changes it into a squeezing action on the brake disks to produce the friction that slows the aircraft when the brakes are applied.
Industry:Aviation
A structural material having the cross-sectional shape of a channel, or the letter U. A channel section can be formed (bent) from a flat sheet of metal, or it can be extruded (squeezed through a specially shaped die).
Industry:Aviation
A structural member in a truss that is loaded in tension only. Stays are usually made of steel wire, and their length is adjusted by turnbuckles.
Industry:Aviation
A structural member used in a stressed-skin structure to stiffen the skin between the bulkheads or other major structural components. An intercostal does not carry stresses from the skin into the structure supporting the skin.
Industry:Aviation
A structural partition that divides the fuselage of an aircraft into compartments or bays. A bulkhead strengthens the structure and acts as a wall.
Industry:Aviation
A structural wire inside a Pratt truss airplane wing between the spars. Drag wires run from the front spar inboard, to the rear spar at the next bay outboard. Drag wires oppose forces that try to drag a wing backward. Each drag wire is crossed by an antidrag wire.
Industry:Aviation
