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A gear train in which a series of small planetary gears rotate around a central gear. More commonly called a planetary gear train.
Industry:Aviation
A glass or metal tube with a tiny inside diameter. Capillary action causes the fluid to move within the tube.
Industry:Aviation
A hand file with its teeth formed on a curved surface that resembles a spoon.
Industry:Aviation
A hard, airtight, unbroken oxide film electrolytically deposited on an aluminum alloy surface to protect it from corrosion.
Industry:Aviation
A hard, white, translucent ceramic material that was used as the insulator in some of the early aircraft spark plugs.
Industry:Aviation
A hardened and polished surface on a rotating shaft that rides in a plain bearing.
Industry:Aviation
A heavy contaminant that forms in an aircraft engine lubricating oil because of oxidation and chemical decomposition of the oil.
Industry:Aviation
A helical gear mounted on a shaft. The worm meshes with a spur gear whose teeth are cut at an angle to its face. A worm gear is an irreversible mechanism. The rotation of the shaft, on which the worm gear locks the spur gear so its shaft cannot be rotated.
Industry:Aviation
A highly accurate tachometer that shines a laser beam on a rotating element that has reflective tape or a contrasting mark. The reflected laser beam is converted into electrical pulses which are counted and displayed on a monitoring instrument.
Industry:Aviation
A high-velocity stream of compressor bleed air blown from a nozzle into an area where vortices are likely to form. Vortex dissipaters destroy the vortices that would otherwise suck debris from the ground into engines mounted in pods that are low to the ground.
Industry:Aviation
