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The branch of technology that deals with the design, production, installation, use, and servicing of electronic equipment mounted in aircraft.
Industry:Aviation
The fixed vertical surface in the empennage of an airplane. The vertical fin acts as a weathervane to give the airplane directional stability.
Industry:Aviation
A remotely actuated, heavy-duty electrical switch. Contactors are used in an aircraft electrical system to connect the battery to the main bus.
Industry:Aviation
A small offset near the edge of a piece of sheet metal. It allows one sheet of metal to overlap another sheet while maintaining a flush surface.
Industry:Aviation
An isolation valve at the discharge side of the air turbine that prevents the loss of pressurization through a disengaged cabin air compressor.
Industry:Aviation
The characteristic of an aircraft that allows it to change its flight attitude in response to the pilot’s movement of the flight deck controls.
Industry:Aviation
The point on the leading edge of a wing at which the airflow separates, with some flowing over the top of the wing and the rest below the wing.
Industry:Aviation
The treatment of a structure to be covered with fabric to keep the solvents in the dope from softening the protective coating on the structure.
Industry:Aviation
A layer of thin plastic material placed between a composite lay-up and the heating blanket. It prevents the blanket from sticking to the fabric.
Industry:Aviation
A term used for any portion of an electrical or electronic system that can be removed as a unit. A black box does not have to be a physical box.
Industry:Aviation
