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The gradual change in pitch angle of a propeller blade from the root to the tip.
Industry:Aviation
The hardened steel pin that attaches a piston to the small end of a connecting rod.
Industry:Aviation
The high-strength component inside a propeller that attaches the blades to the engine propeller shaft.
Industry:Aviation
The high-velocity stream of turbulent air behind an operating aircraft engine.
Industry:Aviation
The horsepower equivalent of the thrust produced by a turbojet engine. Thrust horsepower is found by multiplying the net thrust of the engine, measured in pounds, by the speed of the aircraft, measured in miles per hour, and then dividing this by 375.
Industry:Aviation
The housing that encloses the crankshaft, camshaft, and many of the accessory drive gears of a reciprocating engine. The cylinders are mounted on the crankcase, and the engine attaches to the airframe by the crankcase.
Industry:Aviation
The input for computer processing in the form of numerical information that represents characters or analog quantities.
Industry:Aviation
The invisible, but measurable, force surrounding a permanent magnet or current-carrying conductor. This field is produced when the orbital axes of the electrons of the atoms in the material are all in alignment.
Industry:Aviation
