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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 ...
Cloud-like streamers often seen behind aircraft flying in clear, cold air. Condensation trails are usually called contrails or vapor trails.
Industry:Aviation
Clouds in the form of ragged, irregular shreds, appearing as if they were torn. Fractus clouds of the cumulus family are called fractocumulus, and those in the stratus family are called fractostratus.
Industry:Aviation
Clouds of unknown composition which occur at great heights, probably around 75 to 90 kilometers. They resemble thin cirrus, but usually have a bluish or silvery color, although sometimes orange to red.
Industry:Aviation
Clouds that form in stable air and appear to be in layers. Stratus clouds, stratocumulus, and nimbostratus clouds are all stratiform clouds.
Industry:Aviation
Clumps of molecules in a piece of ferromagnetic material that change their magnetic alignment as a group, rather than as individual molecules.
Industry:Aviation
Colored lights on an aircraft used at night to show the direction the aircraft is moving. A red light is installed on the left wing tip, a green light is on the right wing tip, and a white light is installed on the tail of the aircraft.
Industry:Aviation
Colored marks on an aircraft instrument dial that identify certain ranges of operation as specified in the aircraft maintenance or flight manual and listed in the appropriate aircraft Type Certificate Data Sheets or Aircraft Specifications. Color-coding directs attention to approaching operating difficulties. These ranges and colors are the most generally used:
: Red radial line — do not exceed.
: Green arc — normal operating range.
: Yellow arc — caution range.
: Blue radial line — used on airspeed indicators to show best single-engine rate-of-climb speed.
: White arc — used on airspeed indicators to show flap operating range.
Industry:Aviation
Communications in which two stations transmit and receive information. Ordinary telephone communications is an example of two-way communications.
Industry:Aviation
