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Aeronautics
The branch of science that deals with flight aerodynamics and with the operation of all types of aircraft.
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Chin
Aviation; Aeronautics
A part of an aircraft structure that sticks out from the bottom of the forward part of the fuselage. Some multiengine military aircraft have chin turrets. These are turrets in which guns are mounted ...
Wheel well
Aviation; Aeronautics
A part of an aircraft structure that houses the landing gear when it is retracted. Wheel wells may be part of the wing, engine nacelle, or fuselage.
Baffle
Aviation; Aeronautics
A part of a structure used to impede, regulate, or alter the rate or direction of flow of a fluid, light, or sound.
Crack
Aviation; Aeronautics
A partial separation in a piece of material caused by vibration, overloading, or internal stresses.
Brace
Aviation; Aeronautics
A part of a structure that supports or strengthens the main load-carrying portion of the structure.
Air
Aviation; Aeronautics
A physical mixture of gases that make up the atmosphere of the earth. Pure dry air contains approximately 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen by volume, with the remainder made up of small parts of carbon ...
Adiabatic change
Aviation; Aeronautics
A physical change taking place within a material in which heat energy is neither added to the material nor taken from it. For example, if a container of gas is compressed, with no heat energy added ...
