- 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 term used in warfare to identify a pilot who has downed five or more enemy aircraft. This term was first used during World War I.
Industry:Aviation
A term used to define several automated air traffic control systems:
ARTS II. An automated, nontracking radar system with capability for air traffic control at terminals with low to medium activity.
ARTS III. A beacon-tracking automated radar system used in medium- to high-activity terminals. ARTS III detects, tracks, and predicts secondary radar-derived aircraft targets.
ARTS IIIA. A radar-tracking and beacon-tracking automated radar system that tracks and predicts primary as well as secondary radar-derived aircraft targets.
Industry:Aviation
A term used to describe a situation where an aircraft has reported a position fix or is observed on radar at a point not on the ATC-approved route of flight.
Industry:Aviation
A term used to describe all convective clouds which exhibit vertical development. Cumuliform clouds are distinguished from stratiform clouds, which have no vertical development.
Industry:Aviation
A term used to describe one of the limits to the speed at which an aircraft can fly. The thermal barrier is the speed limit caused by heat produced by friction of the air passing over the aircraft surfaces. At this speed, the heat is severe enough to damage the aircraft structure.
Industry:Aviation
A term used to describe the flow of electricity. Electron current is the flow of electrons in a circuit. They move through a circuit from the negative terminal of the source of electrical energy to its positive terminal. Conventional current is an assumed flow of electricity which travels from positive to negative.
It was only after the discovery that it is the negative electrons that actually move in an electrical circuit that the concept of electron current was developed. Previous to this discovery, many texts were written using the positive to negative direction of flow. For this reason, positive to negative flow is called conventional current.
Current is measured in amperes, with one ampere being the rate of flow of one coulomb per second.
Industry:Aviation
A term used to describe the total field of aviation operation other than the military and the airlines. General aviation includes business flying (corporate, or executive), agricultural aviation, personal flying for sport or pleasure, flight schools, and flying clubs. The manufacturers of the aircraft and the maintenance facilities that service them are also a part of general aviation.
Industry:Aviation
A term used to identify a relative condition of temperature; it is opposed to cool. A warm wind is a movement of air whose temperature is slightly higher than the temperature of the person upon whom it is blowing.
Industry:Aviation
A term used to indicate that a particular piece of equipment or material meets the rigid standards established by the military services or by an aircraft manufacturer for use in an aircraft.
Industry:Aviation
