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Federal Aviation Administration
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Adjusting the aircraft control surfaces (including flaps and landing gear) in a manner that will achieve a specified attitude.
Industry:Aviation
Flight regime in which flight at a higher airspeed requires a lower power setting and a lower airspeed requires a higher power setting in order to maintain altitude.
Industry:Aviation
A controllable-pitch propeller whose pitch is automatically varied in flight by a governor to maintain a constant rpm in spite of varying air loads.
Industry:Aviation
A shell-like fuselage design in which the stressed outer skin is used to support the majority of imposed stresses. Monocoque fuselage design may include bulkheads but not stringers.
Industry:Aviation
A band of radio frequencies falling between 30 and 300 MHz.
Industry:Aviation
One of the major components of a flight director system, it provides steering commands that the pilot (or the autopilot, if coupled) follows.
Industry:Aviation
The “regions of normal and reversed command” refers to the relationship between speed and the power required to maintain or change that speed in flight.
Industry:Aviation
System that supplies a constant supply of pure oxygen to a rebreather bag that dilutes the pure oxygen with exhaled gases and thus supplies a healthy mix of oxygen and ambient air to the mask. Primarily used in passenger cabins of commercial airliners.
Industry:Aviation
Airplanes with a single set of wings.
Industry:Aviation
Electronic navigation equipment in which the flight deck instrument identifies the radial or line from the VOR station, measured in degrees clockwise from magnetic north, along which the aircraft is located.
Industry:Aviation