- 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 electronically displayed map on the radar display that may depict data such as airports, heliports, runway center line extensions, hospital emergency landing areas, navaids and fixes, reporting points, airway/route center lines, boundaries, hand-off points, special use tracks, obstructions, prominent geographical features, map alignment indicators, range accuracy marks, and minimum vectoring altitudes.
Industry:Aviation
An electroplating process in which a thin film of chromium is plated on the surface of a steel part.
There are two types of chrome plating: hard chrome and decorative chrome. Hard chrome is used to plate the inside walls of an engine cylinder to form a wear-resistant surface. Decorative chrome is used on such components as automobile bumpers to provide a durable, weather-resistant, and attractive surface.
Industry:Aviation
An elongated area of relatively high atmospheric pressure. Ridges are usually associated with, and most clearly identified as, areas of maximum anticyclonic curvature of the wind flow.
Industry:Aviation
An elongated area of relatively low atmospheric pressure. Troughs are usually associated with and most clearly identified as an area of maximum cyclonic curvature of the wind flow.
A trough is the opposite of a ridge.
Industry:Aviation
An emergency approach procedure used under conditions when no other instrument approach procedure can be executed.
Industry:Aviation
An enclosed area, or space, in an aircraft structure. An engine compartment is an enclosed area in which the engine is mounted.
Industry:Aviation
An enclosed chamber in which air can be held at a pressure slightly higher than that of the surrounding air. Plenum chambers are used with a gas turbine engine to stabilize the pressure of the air before it enters a double-entry centrifugal compressor.
Industry:Aviation
An enclosed compartment in an aircraft in which an engine is mounted. Most multiengine propeller-driven airplanes have engine nacelles mounted on the leading edge of the wings far enough out that the propellers clear the fuselage.
Multiengine jet-propelled airplanes often have their engines mounted in nacelles on the sides of the fuselage between the wing and the tail, or in nacelles hanging below the wings. Nacelles in which jet engines are mounted are often called pods.
Industry:Aviation
An endless belt used to drive a pump or generator from a source of power. The cross section of a V-belt has the shape of a trapezoid, and it fits into V-shaped pulleys, with the top of the V-belt even with the top of the pulleys.
Industry:Aviation
