- 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 wood- or metal-working power tool, used to cut grooves in a surface, or to cut the core from a honeycomb material. A router consists of a high-speed motor spinning a tool whose cutting edges are on its side. A guide is used to control the depth to which the cutting tool can penetrate the material being routed.
Industry:Aviation
A woodcutting saw with large, chisel-shaped teeth. A ripsaw is used to cut wood in the direction of its grain.
Industry:Aviation
A wooden measuring stick with the length of three feet, or one yard. A yardstick is marked at every inch along its length.
Industry:Aviation
A woodworking plane whose blade extends to the outside edge of the body of the plane. A rabbet plane is used to cut a rabbet (groove) in the face of a piece of wood.
Industry:Aviation
A woodworking power tool used to smooth the edges of a board or piece of wood.
Industry:Aviation
A woodworking tool consisting of a sharp blade with two handles, one at either end of the blade, mounted at right angles to the blade. A drawknife is pulled across the work to shave off part of its surface or to make its edges round.
Industry:Aviation
A working model of a device usually made by hand. The prototype of an aircraft is built to prove the design or design concept. After all of the design “bugs” are worked out of the prototype, production tooling is set up, and production models are built. The production models are quite similar to, but not exactly like the prototype.
Industry:Aviation
A World War I training airplane powered by a Curtiss OX-5 engine. It was widely available after the war and helped introduce aviation to the general public.
Industry:Aviation
A worldwide, electronic, hyperbolic navigation system. A master and one or more slave stations transmit a CW (continuous wave) signal simultaneously on the same VLF (very-low-frequency) carrier. The receiving aircraft measures the phase difference between these signals as they are received, and plots, on a hyperbolic chart, the line of position on which this phase difference can occur. The lines of position from two Omega stations cross at the location of the aircraft.
Industry:Aviation
