- 업종: 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 colored multifunction display flight instrument that shows pitch and roll attitude indications along with flight director commands, localizer and glide slope indications, selected airspeed, ground speed, automatic flight control system and autothrottle modes, and radio altitude and decision height. An EADI is used in conjunction with an EHSI.
Industry:Aviation
A colored stripe running along the length of a flexible hose. If this stripe spirals around the hose, it indicates that the hose was twisted when it was installed. Twist stripes are also called lay lines.
Industry:Aviation
A colored substance used to add a more or less permanent color to another object. Dyes are added to aviation gasoline to give each grade an identifying color. Dyes are also used to add an attractive color to the oxide film that forms when aluminum alloys are anodized.
Industry:Aviation
A colorless liquid used in the manufacture of acetone and its derivatives and as a solvent and anti-icing agent.
Industry:Aviation
A colorless poisonous liquid, BrCH2CH2Br, added to aviation gasoline to minimize lead fouling of the spark plugs. Tetraethyl lead improves the antidetonation characteristics of aviation gasoline, but it leaves lead deposits inside the spark plugs. Ethylene dibromide combines with the lead before it solidifies and changes it into volatile lead bromides, which pass out with the exhaust gases.
Industry:Aviation
A colorless, combustible compound, (CH3C6H4O)3PO, that is used as a plasticizer in aircraft dope and an additive in gasoline and lubricating oil. TCP aids in scavenging lead deposits left in the cylinders when leaded fuel is burned.
Industry:Aviation
A colorless, dense, liquid halogenated hydrocarbon that has, in the past, been used as a fire extinguishing agent and as a cleaning fluid for clothing.
Carbon tetrachloride is no longer used for either of these purposes because it is harmful to the human body. When carbon tetrachloride is sprayed on a fire, it changes into the poisonous gas, phosgene.
Industry:Aviation
A colorless, heavy liquid fire extinguishing agent. Dibromodifluoromethane is also known as Halon 1202.
Industry:Aviation
A colorless, highly flammable, lighter-than-air, gaseous chemical element. Hydrogen’s symbol is H, its atomic number is 1, and its atomic weight is 1.00797. Hydrogen is the lightest of all of the chemical elements.
An atom of hydrogen has one proton and no neutrons in its nucleus, and spinning around this nucleus is only one electron. A molecule of hydrogen gas is made up of two atoms of hydrogen (H2). Hydrogen gas is colorless, tasteless and lighter than air. It is used as a fuel gas for welding.
Industry:Aviation
A colorless, nontoxic flammable gas (C2H2)generated when calcium carbide is dissolved in water. Acetylene gas is used as a fuel gas for welding.
Industry:Aviation
