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The design of an aerodynamic surface whose strength and stiffness are matched to the aerodynamic loads that will be imposed upon it.
Industry:Aviation
The location of the chord line of an airfoil at which all the lift forces produced by the airfoil are considered to be concentrated.
Industry:Aviation
A line drawn on an aeronautical chart along which the angular difference between the magnetic and geographic north poles is the same.
Industry:Aviation
The breakdown of the structure of wood fibers. Wood that shows any indication of decay must be rejected for use in aircraft structure.
Industry:Aviation
A small hydraulic shock absorber installed between the nose wheel fork and the nose wheel cylinder attached to the aircraft structure.
Industry:Aviation
The breakdown of the structure of wood fibers. Wood that shows any indication of decay must be rejected for use in aircraft structure.
Industry:Aviation
The less porous, usually harder portion of an annual ring that forms in the latter part of the growing season, the summer of the year.
Industry:Aviation
The name for the original alloy of aluminum, magnesium, manganese, and copper. Duralumin is the same as the modern 2017 aluminum alloy.
Industry:Aviation
A component in an aircraft electrical system that opens the alternator field circuit any time the alternator output voltage is too high.
Industry:Aviation
A copper-nickel alloy used as the negative lead of a thermocouple for measuring the cylinder head temperature of a reciprocating engine.
Industry:Aviation
