- Industry: Government
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An aircraft that is certificated under 14 CFR part 23 that is not certificated under the acrobatic, utility, or commuter category.
Industry:Aviation
An air-to-air heat exchanger installed between a turbosupercharger and the carburetor. Intercoolers decrease the temperature of compressed air to prevent detonation.
Industry:Aviation
An alloy or solution that has the lowest possible constant melting point.
Industry:Aviation
An analog temperature measuring instrument in which the pointer deflection is proportional to the ratio between the current flowing in an internal reference circuit and that flowing through the temperature-sensing probe.
Industry:Aviation
An axial-flow turbine engine that has two compressors, each driven by its own stage or stages of turbines.
Industry:Aviation
An eccentric, or lobe, on a rotating shaft that changes rotary motion into linear motion. A cam is mounted on the magnet shaft in a magneto to push upward on the insulated breaker point to separate, or open, the points when the magnet is in a particular location.
Industry:Aviation
An elastic cord made of small strips of rubber encased in a loosely braided cloth tube that holds and protects the rubber, yet allows it to stretch. The energy in a stretched bungee cord may be used to crank a large aircraft engine.
Industry:Aviation
An electric motor with field coils connected in series with the armature.
Industry:Aviation
An electrical rectifier circuit that converts AC into pulsating DC. Only one alternation of each cycle is present in the output.
Industry:Aviation
An electrical switch actuated by the landing gear scissors on the oleo strut. When no weight is on the landing gear, the oleo piston is extended and the switch is in one position; but when weight is on the gear, the oleo strut compresses and the switch changes its position.
Industry:Aviation
