- 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 ...
An adhesive used to fasten sheets of paper together. Rubber cement is made of unvulcanized rubber dissolved in an organic solvent.
Industry:Aviation
An adhesive-backed flexible tape used as a temporary insulation over wire terminals and wire splices. This tape is usually made of a polyvinylchloride material. One side of the tape is coated with an adhesive, and the tape is wound over areas of bare wire to insulate it.
Industry:Aviation
An adjustable brace used to adjust the blade alignment of a semirigid helicopter rotor. Drag braces resist movement of the blade about its lead-lag hinge.
Industry:Aviation
An adjustable device in a fluid power system. A variable restrictor is usually some form of variable orifice that controls the amount of fluid allowed to flow in a given time when it is acted on by a specific pressure.
Industry:Aviation
An adjustable hole cutter turned in a drill press. The cutting tool is set so its distance from the center of the pilot drill is exactly that needed for the radius of the hole. The pilot drill cuts the center hole, and the cutting tool is fed very slowly into the metal. The cutting tool can be reversed in the holder so the edge of the hole being cut will be either straight or beveled.
“Fly heading…degrees” (air traffic control). Instructions issued by ATC to a pilot directing him to turn to and continue in a specific compass direction.
Industry:Aviation
An adjusting device used in a run of aircraft control cable to adjust its tension. A turnbuckle consists of a brass barrel and two threaded cable terminals made of steel. One terminal and one end of the barrel have left-hand threads, and the other terminal and the other end of the barrel have right-hand threads. The cable terminals are both started into the barrel, and as the barrel is turned, the terminals both screw into it. Screwing the terminals into the barrel increases the cable tension by shortening the cable.
Industry:Aviation
An advanced composite fiber made by drawing filaments of carbon at a high temperature and in a controlled atmosphere. Graphite fibers are very strong and stiff.
Industry:Aviation
An advanced form of intergranular corrosion that forms in extruded metal parts. Exfoliation corrosion causes the metal to separate along its layer-like grain structure.
Industry:Aviation
An advisory circular issued by the Federal Aviation Administration, giving examples of acceptable methods, techniques, and practices for aircraft alterations.
Industry:Aviation
An aerodrome to which an aircraft may proceed when it becomes either impossible or inadvisable to proceed to or to land at the aerodrome of intended landing.
Industry:Aviation
