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Cloth tape whose edges have small V-shaped notches cut along their length. The pinked edges prevent the tape from raveling.
Industry:Aviation
The component in an autopilot system that allows the pilot to maneuver the aircraft manually when the autopilot is engaged.
Industry:Aviation
The generic name for any of the organic materials produced by polymerization. Plastics can be shaped by molding or drawing.
Industry:Aviation
A flight maneuver in which an airplane descends in a corkscrew fashion. One wing is stalled and the other is producing lift.
Industry:Aviation
A fluid power actuator that uses a piston moving inside a cylinder to change pressure into linear, or straight-line, motion.
Industry:Aviation
A single-shell type of aircraft structure in which all of the flight loads are carried in the outside skin of the structure.
Industry:Aviation
Ice that forms when large drops of water strike a surface whose temperature is below freezing. Glaze ice is clear and heavy.
Industry:Aviation
The flight Mach number at which there is the first indication of supersonic airflow over any part of the aircraft structure.
Industry:Aviation
A metal-cutting hand file that has curved teeth across its faces. Vixen files are used to remove large amounts of soft metal.
Industry:Aviation
A rate gyro whose gimbal axis is tilted so it can sense rotation of the aircraft about its roll axis as well as its yaw axis.
Industry:Aviation
