- 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 ...
The grinding away of part of the top edge of the valve seat in the cylinder of a reciprocating engine. Narrowing decreases the contact area between the valve face and the valve seat.
Industry:Aviation
The gross weight of an aircraft, in pounds, divided by the thrust, in pounds, produced by the engines.
Industry:Aviation
The group of people who service and maintain an aircraft when it is on the ground. The ground crew prepares the aircraft for flight and services it after its return from flight.
Industry:Aviation
The half of an electrical connector that contains pin-type contacts that complete circuits by sliding into sockets (female connectors).
Industry:Aviation
The handle in an aircraft cockpit that is pulled at the first indication of an engine fire. Pulling this handle disconnects the generator from the electrical system, shuts off the fuel and hydraulic fluid to the engine, and closes the compressor bleed air valve. The fire extinguisher agent discharge switch is uncovered, but it is not automatically closed.
Industry:Aviation
The hard, brittle, glass-like material that covers a weld bead that has been made with a coated welding rod. The flux coating on the rod melts in the heat of the arc and flows out ahead of the bead. The melted flux covers the metal where the weld is being made and keeps oxides from forming in the weld. When the weld is made, the liquid flux hardens into slag that must be chipped off to allow the bead to be inspected.
Industry:Aviation
The hardened and polished steel pin that attaches a piston to the small end of a connecting rod. Wrist pins are called piston pins, and in the United Kingdom, gudgeon pins.
Industry:Aviation
The hardened and polished steel pin used to connect the piston of a reciprocating engine to the connecting rod. Piston pins are also called wrist pins and gudgeon pins.
Industry:Aviation
The hardened steel surface upon which the balls or rollers of an antifriction bearing ride.
Industry:Aviation
The head of a rivet formed when the rivet is installed. The upset head is also called the shop head, to distinguish it from the manufactured head on the rivet before it is driven.
Industry:Aviation
