- Industria: Aviation
- Number of terms: 16387
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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 term for manifold pressure which has been increased above atmospheric pressure by a supercharger.
Industry:Aviation
A term having to do with the air or with aircraft. It is used in such terms as aerial photography, aerial mapping, or aerial refueling.
Industry:Aviation
A term meaning deceleration, or slowing down. Negative acceleration is a decrease in speed with time and is expressed in such terms as feet per second, per second or meters per second, per second.
Industry:Aviation
A term meaning that the sky is hidden by surface-based obscuring phenomena and vertical visibility is restricted overhead.
Industry:Aviation
A term meaning to demonstrate, confirm, validate, or substantiate something. In legal documents it means to plead or allege.
Industry:Aviation
A term pertaining to mountains or anything caused by mountains. Examples are orographic clouds, orographic lift, and orographic precipitation.
Industry:Aviation
A term referring to all of the tubing and hoses used to connect the hydraulic and pneumatic system components in an aircraft; also the tubing and hoses that carry fuel and lubricating oil.
Industry:Aviation
A term that has, in the past, been used to represent the quantity 1,000,000,000 or 1 x 109. The prefix giga is now used in place of kilomega.
Industry:Aviation
A term that may be used in place of tentative or actual calculated landing time, whichever applies.
Industry:Aviation
A term that means a negative value, or a value less than zero. Minus values are indicated by using a short dash in front of the value (–4). A minus sign (the short dash) is used in electricity to indicate a negative condition, one in which there is an excess of electrons.
Industry:Aviation
