- 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 wind blowing across the flight path of an aircraft. When an aircraft is flying in a crosswind, correction must be made to keep it from being blown from its desired flight path.
Industry:Aviation
A wind that in summer blows from the sea to a continental interior, bringing copious amounts of rain. In the winter this wind blows from the interior to the sea, resulting in sustained dry weather.
Industry:Aviation
A wind which blows from the direction the aircraft is flying. The ground speed of an aircraft (the speed the aircraft is moving over the ground) is less than the speed through the air by the velocity of the head wind.
Industry:Aviation
A winding on an electrical transformer that has a tap, or connection, located in its electrical center. A center tap is used to divide the winding into two halves which have opposite polarities. A center-tapped secondary winding of a power transformer is needed for a two-diode, full-wave rectifier.
Industry:Aviation
A wing having a triangular shape — an extreme amount of sweepback on the leading edge and a trailing edge that is almost perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the airplane. Delta wings are used on some supersonic airplanes.
Industry:Aviation
A wing rib used to give the wing its airfoil shape. Plain ribs are also called former ribs.
Industry:Aviation
A wing tapered in both planform and thickness. The planform of a wing is its shape as seen from above, looking down on it, and thickness is the shape as seen from the front, looking aft.
Industry:Aviation
A wing with no external bracing — all of the strength of the wing is inside its structure. The wing spars are built in such a way that they carry all the bending and torsional loads.
Industry:Aviation
A wood or metal bar on which trammel points are mounted to compare distances.
Industry:Aviation
