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An electrical instrument that displays on the face of a cathode-ray tube the waveform of the electrical signal it is measuring.
Industry:Aviation
An imaginary line, passing through the center of gravity of an airplane, and extending lengthwise through it from nose to tail.
Industry:Aviation
An instrument that measures the angle between the local airflow around the direction detector and the fuselage reference plane.
Industry:Aviation
The strength of a riveted joint in a sheet metal structure in which the rivets shear before the metal tears at the rivet holes.
Industry:Aviation
A low point in an aircraft fuel tank in which water and other contaminants can collect and be held until they can be drained out.
Industry:Aviation
A powerplant whose propeller is mounted at the rear of the airplane and pushes, rather than pulls, the airplane through the air.
Industry:Aviation
A press with either a mechanically or hydraulically operated ram used in a maintenance shop for a variety of pressing functions.
Industry:Aviation
The mode of pressurization in which the cabin pressure is maintained at a constant value regardless of the outside air pressure.
Industry:Aviation
Threads of a different color from the warp threads that are woven into a material to identify the direction of the warp threads.
Industry:Aviation
A line drawn on an aeronautical chart along which there is no angular difference between the magnetic and geographic north poles.
Industry:Aviation
