- Industry: Aviation
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Aviation Supplies & Academics, Inc. (ASA) develops and markets aviation supplies, software, and books for pilots, flight instructors, flight engineers, airline professionals, air traffic controllers, flight attendants, aviation technicians and enthusiasts. Established in 1947, ASA also provides ...
A plane curve traced by a point that moves in such a way that the difference of its distance from two fixed points, called foci, remains constant.
Industry:Aviation
A plane, closed, four-sided figure. Only two of the sides of a trapezoid are parallel to each other.
Industry:Aviation
A plane, four-sided, closed figure with four right angles. The opposite sides of a rectangle are parallel, but all four sides do not necessarily have the same length. If all sides of a rectangle are the same length, the rectangle is called a square.
Industry:Aviation
A plastic lacing material that is available in round or rectangular cross sections and is used for holding wire bundles and tubing together. It holds tension on knots indefinitely and is impervious to petroleum products.
Industry:Aviation
A plastic material made of a thermosetting phenol-formaldehyde resin, reinforced with cloth or paper. Phenolic plastic materials are used for electrical insulators and control pulleys.
Industry:Aviation
A plastic or wooden guide used to prevent a steel control cable from rubbing against an aircraft structure.
Industry:Aviation
A plastic resin whose volume has been increased by bubbles of gas which are generated when the constituents of the plastic are mixed. Expanded plastic is also known as foamed plastic.
Industry:Aviation
A plastic-impregnated fabric bag supported in a portion of an aircraft structure so that it forms a cell in which fuel is carried.
Industry:Aviation
A plate or panel used to cover an inspection opening in an aircraft structure. Inspection plates in nonstressed portions of the structure may be held in place with a few machine screws or self-tapping sheet-metal screws, but inspection plates in a highly stressed portion of the structure are held in place with a large number of high-strength structural screws.
Industry:Aviation
A plug of sheet metal installed in a flush-skin repair to bring the surface of the repair even with the skin being repaired. The strength of the repair is in the doubler inside the structure, and the filler plug is used only to make the surface aerodynamically smooth.
Industry:Aviation
