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A ring made of thin corrosion-resistant steel tubing that encircles a radial engine and collects exhaust gases from each cylinder. The ring ends with a connection to the exhaust tail pipe.
Industry:Aviation
A ring or groove around the outside of a circular body or shaft, or around the inside of a cylindrical hole.
Industry:Aviation
A ring-shaped orifice, normally one that surrounds another orifice.
Industry:Aviation
A schedule that allows a device to operate for a given period of time, followed by a cooling down period before the device can be operated again.
Industry:Aviation
A self-contained starter used on some military aircraft. A cartridge similar in size to a shotgun shell is ignited in the starter breech. The expanding gases drive a piston attached to a helical spline that converts the linear movement of the piston into rotary motion to rotate the crankshaft.
Industry:Aviation
A semiconductor material whose electrical resistance varies with its temperature.
Industry:Aviation
A series of stator vanes immediately ahead of the first-stage turbine. The function of the inlet guide vanes is to divert the hot gases in the proper direction to enter the turbine, and to provide a series of convergent ducts which increase the velocity of the gases.
Industry:Aviation
A series winding in a compoundwound DC generator. The compensating windings are embedded in the faces of the field poles and their varying magnetic field works with the fields from the interpoles to effectively cancel the field distortion caused by armature current.
Industry:Aviation
A service component used to supply electrical power and compressed air to an aircraft when it is operating on the ground.
Industry:Aviation
A set of stator vanes in front of the first stage of compression in a gas turbine engine. The inlet guide vanes deflect the air entering the compressor in the correct direction for optimum operation. Inlet guide vanes may be fixed, or their angle may be controlled hydraulically by fuel from the fuel control.
Industry:Aviation
