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General aviation
The science and practice of artificial flight which involves the design, development, production, operation of aircraft or heavier-than-air machines.
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Constant-speed propeller
Aviation; General aviation
A hydraulically-controlled propeller that governs an engine at its optimum speed by the blade pitch being increased or decreased automatically.
Contact flight
Aviation; General aviation
Navigation in which altitude and flight path can be maintained by visual reference to the ground and its landmarks.
Collector ring
Aviation; General aviation
A circular duct on a radial engine into which exhaust gases from its cylinders are safely discharged.
Chord
Aviation; General aviation
The measurable distance between the leading and trailing edges of a wingform.
Gyroplane
Aviation; General aviation
A rotorcraft whose rotors are not engine-driven, except for initial starting, but are made to rotate by action of the air when the rotorcraft is moving and whose means of propulsion, usually a ...
High-speed stall
Aviation; General aviation
Any stall made to occur at more than 1g, such as pulling out of a dive or while turning.
