- Industry: 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 ...
Oil that has become too viscous, or thick, to flow because of its low temperature or because of contamination. Congealed oil is too stiff to act as a proper lubricant for an aircraft engine.
Industry:Aviation
One complete series of events in the operation of a gas turbine engine that consists of starting the engine, taking off, landing, and shutting the engine down.
Industry:Aviation
One disk of rotor blades and the following set of stator vanes in an axial-flow compressor.
Industry:Aviation
One half of a cycle of alternating current or voltage. There are two alternations in one cycle: the positive alternation and the negative alternation.
Industry:Aviation
One hundred and eighty degrees minus the angle. Thirty degrees is the supplement of 150°.
Industry:Aviation
One method by which energy is transmitted from one location to another. Radio and television signals, for example, reach us by electromagnetic radiation. When electric and magnetic fields oscillate back and forth at a high enough frequency, they extend out into space in the form of waves. These waves may be absorbed (received) at some distant point.
Very little energy transmitted by electromagnetic radiation is lost, or used up, by the space between the point from which it is sent and the point at which it is received. Energy from the sun reaches the earth by electromagnetic radiation, and only a very small amount of this energy is lost in the empty space between the sun and the earth.
Industry:Aviation
One method of putting an audio frequency signal on a radio frequency carrier. Rather than the AF signal changing the amplitude of the carrier, as is done in amplitude modulation (AM), the AF signal changes the frequency of the carrier by an amount determined by the amplitude of the audio signal.
The amplitude of the frequency-modulated carrier is clipped so static caused by electrical interference causes a minimum of distortion.
Industry:Aviation
One object ahead of another. Tandem seating in an airplane has one seat ahead of the other. The wheels of a bicycle are tandem wheels.
Industry:Aviation
One of the basic gas laws, which states that the product found by multiplying the pressure of a gas by its volume is always constant. If the volume of a container of gas is decreased without changing the absolute temperature of the gas, the pressure of the gas will increase.
Industry:Aviation
